Tenders issued for hospital development
LEEDS TEACHING Hospitals NHS Trust has issued tender notices seeking talented architects and design teams to work on the development of two new hospitals at Leeds General Infirmary.
The Trust has the funding and planning approvals in place to design and build a new hospital for adult healthcare and a new home for Leeds Children’s Hospital. Called Hospitals of the Future, this five- year project is a major development of more than a million sq ft in the city centre.
Hospitals of the Future is one of six projects to receive funding in the first wave of the UK Government’s Health Infrastructure Plan – its national programme of healthcare capital investment – and the first to come to market.
Leeds Teaching Hospitals is one of the largest and busiest acute hospital trusts in the UK and a centre of excellence for specialist services, globally recognised for research and innovation and a leader in medical education and training.
The Trust aims to set the standard for healthcare design in the UK. Its ambitions include making the new hospitals the most digitally advanced and smart in the UK; leading on sustainability and carbon reduction; promoting best practice through Designing for Manufacture and Assembly and Modern Methods of Construction and becoming the first UK acute trust in the HIP Programme to be accredited to the WELL Building Standard.
Julian Hartley, chief executive of Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, said: “We need architectural partners that can rise to the challenge of this exciting, complex design brief and work with us to deliver world- class hospitals.”