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Brunel building shortlisted for RIBA design award
Southmead Hospital’s Brunel Building has been shortlisted for a design award at this year’s RIBA Awards, as part of the South-West Building of the Year category.
The Brunel Building, which was designed by BDP, opened in 2014 and is one of the most sustainable major acute hospital in the UK. The second phase of the building was completed in 2016 with the opening of the multi-storey car park which enables patients and visitors to walk directly into the main atrium area.
There are more than 800 rooms in the building, with most patients cared for in single, en-suite bedrooms. Additionally, there is a central atrium running through the building, with inpatient wards on one side of the atrium while the theatres, intensive therapy rooms (ICU) and diagnostic facilities such as MRIs and CT scanners are on the other side of the building, with outpatients clinics on the ground floor. This has increased the privacy and dignity of patients as they are taken through non-public areas when being transported from wards to theatres.
It has previously been recognised for its design with the Bristol Civic Society Award and the Building Better Healthcare People Class Award, as well as receiving international recognition with the European Healthcare Design Award for Best Healthcare Design over 25,000sqm.
Tricia Down, head of Sustainable Health and Capital Planning, said: "We are delighted to have been shortlisted for this prestigious award. The creation of our fantastic Brunel building was the result of teams of dedicated passionate clinical and non-clinical individuals working together to make the hospital the best that it could be, with incredible attention to detail applied to every part of the design and the building as it emerged from the ground.
"Patient and staff well-being was at the heart of everything we did and this drove our vision to create a wonderful environment for everyone. Winning this award would be a real boost for the staff in the hospital, particularly at a time of such high demand for our services.”
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