At Skanska, we worked with the world renown, Great Ormond Street children’s hospital, to create clinical and research buildings enabling it to advance the care of more children.
Improving wards and surgical facilities
Through the partial deconstruction and reconstruction of an existing building, we created the Premier Inn Clinical Building and completed the Mittal Children’s Medical Centre.
Work took place above the working hospital. We partially demolished four storeys, rebuilt and created five new levels on the remaining structure and created a link with existing facilities. The updated building provides:
- 116 beds
- two integrated operating theatres
- a post-anaesthesia care unit.
This project was part of the hospital’s vision of providing modern facilities to treat more children and provide a better experience for both patients and their families. And, by shortening internal journeys through the building, it also helped make the hospital more efficient.
The new facility was officially opened by Her Royal Highness, The Duchess of Cambridge in January 2017.
The Zayed Centre for Research into Rare Disease in Children
Skanska’s second project at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH), was the construction of a new rare disease research centre where we completed the design, build and fit-out of the Zayed Centre for Research into Rare Disease in Children (ZCR).
ZCR brings pioneering research and clinical care together under one roof to drive forward new treatments and cures for children with rare and complex diseases. The building is also home to new outpatient facilities. ZCR is a partnership between GOSH, University College London (UCL) and GOSH Children’s Charity.
Around 500 researchers, clinicians and allied health professionals from GOSH, ICH, and from UCL’s Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences work in the 13,000m² state-of-the-art facility.
The centre houses 21 consultation rooms and eight clinical investigation rooms, it has more than 160 lab bench positions and sees 200 outpatients a day.
The building itself has several impressive features including a design that showcases the pioneering research laboratory from both within the building and for the public at street view. It achieved a BREEAM Excellent sustainability rating and was built with 30 per cent of its concrete frame replaced with a low-carbon cement substitute. It also won an impressive set of awards, including:
- 2021 RIBA National Award
- 2021 RIBA London Award
- 2021 Civic Trust Award
- 2021 AJ Architecture Award – Health and Wellbeing
- 2020 New London Architecture Award – Caring Prize
- 2020 Architecture Master Prize – Best of Best Award
Learn more about ZCR, five years on.
