Architects for Health (AfH) will be working closely with IHEEM on this November’s Healthcare Estates 2011 conference at Manchester Central (1-2 November 2011). Healthcare Estates brings together the UK’s estates and facilities community to shape the future of a more sustainable healthcare environment. The event will provide crucial updates for all those in the design, construction, operation and maintenance of healthcare facilities as well as the patient environments and provision of clinical services.

For more details, download the full agenda at www.healthcare-estates.org.uk. You’ll find there details of the Architects for Health stream of sessions, “Architects for Health – Brave New World – Shaping Healthcare In The Future”.

Future Health and Care Expo 2011
Architects for Health have negotiated a discount for our members for the
Future Health and Care Expo 2011 to be held on the 3rd- 4th October at the Business Design Centre, London.
The deadline for registration has been extended to 26 September.
www.futurehealthexpo.com’

Architects for Health – Visit to St.Charles Community Hospital                      06.07.11

The project was a design by HLM with Interseve as P21 contractor and has been completed for approximately one year.

The Victorian buildings (originally Nightingale wards) comprise long wings with a shallow plan form in an “H” block formation with a central linking spine. The buildings are all listed and required a careful approach to conversion under the watchful eye of English Heritage.

This obviously challenging project provides a series of new departments within an existing shell including and Urgent Care Centre, a GP’s clinic, a small Dental Unit,

an out of hours GP Call Centre and a 66 place Renal Unit.

The external fabric has been maintained along with retention and repair of the large existing sash windows. No double glazing was permitted ensuring that solar gain and heat loss issues would be seasonal problems.

The generous floor to floor heights and large windows provide plentiful light to rooms on the building perimeter. Suspended ceilings are provided as a necessity to conceal services and reduce the verticality of small spaces but are stepped up at external wall perimeters to maximise the effect of the tall windows.

Some internal communication routes are quite narrow as a result of the shallow plan form and maximisation of room dimensions – both challenging the space standards and recommendations of NHS guidance.

A new two storey central glazed link has been provided above an existing single storey connection between the linear Nightingale blocks. This is a tubular steel structure with planar glass walls and roof – a greenhouse environment on the day of the visit –but a solution necessary in architectural terms to appease English Heritage and provide views through the glazing, and between buildings, of an ornately balustraded link beyond.

The overall effect of the conversion is one of a carefully and sensitively planned project with small yet comfortable patient waiting areas and well connected clinical spaces.

Finishes are somewhat understated, artwork is provided as an enhancement to the standard hospital decorative treatment and the habit of sticking notices on any free area of wall has been commendably avoided in this building.

The fact that staff seems generally pleased and happy with their new environment says all that is necessary about this building.

If you took any interesting photos would you share them with us? Please send to events@architectsforhealth.com  so that they can be put on the AfH website.

REMINDER: Last chance to submit work

AfH have the opportunity to exhibit at two upcoming Healthcare Conferences and design events:

‘Future Health Expo’ on the 3rd and 4th Oct in the Business Design Centre, London and

‘IHEEM’ Healthcare Estates Conference and Exhibition on the 1st and 2nd Nov. at Manchester Central

You are invited to submit material to go on display at each venue.

This year we are going part digital, part hard copy; please submit up to three projects from your company, reflecting your year in pictures. With the change in format we would like the exhibition to be both visually stimulating but also informative, therefore we ask for the submissions to be made in the form of one PowerPoint slide per project, with the “key lesson learnt”, or “an innovation” or how “carbon reduction” has been addressed in fewer than 50 words.

Please limit images to 1MB and hard copy foamboards to 450mm x 450mm.

An entry fee of £50 will be charged per three projects.

REVISED DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: 29^th September
(or 5^th October if for IHEEM only) send entries together with a cheque made payable to Architects for Health.

Projects in hard copy will be received and displayed on a “first come, first served basis” There will be a limit to total numbers that can be mounted.

Send digital entries to Rosemary Jenssen at Devereux Architects – rosemary.jenssen@devereuxarchitects.com

Copy to Claudia Bloom at Avanti – cb@avantiarchitects.co.uk

Send hard copy boards to c/o Claudia Bloom, Avanti Architects, 361 – 373 City Road, London EC1V 1AS

Please note there is a 10% discount in entry fee for AfH members to IHEEM – please refer to previous email or visit our website.

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Arrangements for submission of boards

If you would like to participate, you are invited to submit up to three foam-backed display boards each 450mm x 450mm with one image per board (for impact of the overall stand) covering the whole area of the board (no borders).

Your practice name and the name of the project must be included along the lower edge of the board with text size no larger than 13mm height spaced 20mm from the top or bottom edge.

Text should not exceed two lines. Allow for a gap of 7mm between lines. Text can be in any colour of your choice to contrast with the image. Use capitals and lower case as you would normally for your company identity. No logos or other non-text devices please.

If you would like to provide a short commentary on the display material, please include this in the package – a maximum of one side of A4 per practice please. These commentaries will be available for the enquiring visitor but will not be photocopied/ handed out. It’s all about explaining the display, not advertising. Our key thrust – supported by leaflets which we will be handing out – will be to increase interest in sponsoring Architects for Health, as well as encouraging new members.

The conference will take place in Poznan (Poland) at World Trade Center, Ul. Bukowska 12. (http://www.wtc-poznan.com.pl/)

The participation in the conference is free of charge.

Looking forward to seeing you in Poznan!

The Organising Committee

 More info: http://www.szpitalrawicz.pl/lcb-healthcare/conference

Global health infrastructure – challenges for the next decade. Delivering innovation, demonstrating the benefits.

On behalf of the Health and Care Infrastructure Research and Innovation Centre (HaCIRIC), we would like to invite you to our International Conference 2011 ‘Global health infrastructure – challenges for the next decade. Delivering innovation, demonstrating the benefits’. This event brings together researchers and practitioners from across disciplines and countries to focus on key challenges in the provision of healthcare infrastructure for the 21st century.

Dear All

ARCHITECTS for HEALTH are delighted to invite you to our next event:

On Friday 8th July 2011 a visit to Peterborough City Hospital (exact timings will be provided closer to the date to those who have expressed interest)

Max number of 40 visitors so early booking advised. First come, first served although priority will be given to those who are not on the St Charles visit.

Peterborough City Hospital is a 612 bed new acute hospital with an integrated Women’s and Children’s Hospital.

Visit timetable:

Introduction

Trust presentation on health planning and developing brief

Nightingale Associates presentation of the design

Following which there will be a general tour which will include:

Ward visit

Emergency Dept

Cancer Unit  (which has 2 Linaccs)

Faith Centre

Learning Centre

Public corridors

Outpatient area

Amazon Children’s Ward

The address of the hospital is:

Peterborough City Hospital

Edith Cavell Campus

PO Box 404

Bretton Gate

Peterborough

PE3 9GZ

Tel: (01733) 678000

www.peterboroughandstamford.nhs.uk

This web site has some information and directions on how to get to the hospital.

Please respond to events@architectsforhealth.com as soon as possible to secure your place.

Thank you

AfH Events

**** Please note that this event is for AFH members only ****

Dear All

 ARCHITECTS for HEALTH are delighted to invite you to our next event:

 On 6^th July 2011 a visit to St Charles Hospital

 We will be meeting in the main entrance to the hospital (all departments)at 12.50

 Max number of visitors 12 so early booking advised. First come first served.

 Visit will take place between 13.00 and 15.00 hrs. It may be necessary to split into two groups.

The address of the hospital is:

 St Charles Hospital

Exmoor Street

London W10 6DZ

 Tube:

•             Ladbroke Grove Tube Station (0.7 km)

•             Westbourne Park Station (1.1 km)

 Nearby stations:

•             Sudbury & Harrow Road Train Station (0.9 km)

•             Kensal Green Station (1.1 km)

 Buses:

•             7, 23, 52, 70, 295, 316

 Parking:

•             Off-site only – pay and display

***Please note that we are now fully booked***