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Healthcare

Our agile design solutions deliver healthcare environments using best practice, meeting the stringent and complex requirements of the clinical field to create sustainable, patient focused spaces that support healing.

We offer a local service with global experience, drawing on a wealth of knowledge and expertise encompassing all types of healthcare facilities, including specialist children’s hospitals, advanced operating theatres, GP and therapy clinics, medical training facilities, private medical facilities, mother and baby units, cancer treatment facilities, life science facilities, rehabilitation and wellness centres, transitional care, elderly care homes and more.

Our extensive healthcare portfolio reflects our proven ability to design and develop some of the most advanced facilities across the UK, Ireland and Australia. We understand the unique complexities of healthcare design and are experienced in delivering schemes through a wide variety of procurement routes such as Procure 21, medical centres and PFI. Our multidisciplinary approach blends the specialist experience and expertise of our diverse team, providing holistic design solutions for our clients.

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Royal College Pathologists

Through our work supporting the lightning fast delivery of the Jersey General Hospital Nightingale Wing in just four weeks from a standing start, we have developed a unique understanding of what is required to overcome project challenges and create award winning healthcare facilities to suit any time scale.

Expert view: Building-in flexibility to deliver futureproofed, patient-focused healthcare facilities

Waterman’s Building Services Director, Tim Davies, and Structures Director, Helen Blacker, discuss how healthcare design is evolving to deliver highly adaptable, future-proofed facilities which promote healing.

They give their insight into how our team integrates increasingly complex technical requirements for medical equipment into new, existing and repurposed medical facilities, all whilst ensuring exceptional building user experiences.

Our sustainability-focused building services design for Nottingham Trent University’s (NTU’s) innovative new ‘mock hospital’ maximised the building’s flexibility, creating a truly dynamic, low-carbon medical training facility.

Featured Projects

Badenoch and Strathspey

Badenoch & Strathspey Hospital

Awarded Healthcare Development of The Year at the 2022 Scottish Property Awards. Fulfilling the client’s key requirements of functionality, flexibility, aesthetic quality and sustainability.
Royal College of Pathologists

The Royal College of Pathologists

The Royal College of Pathologists sustainable development achieved a BREEAM ‘Excellent’ rating and has won several awards, including a RIBA London Award 2021, New London Architecture’s Education award and the ‘Architecture +Learning’ award at Architizer A+Awards.
Hull Infirmary

Hull Infirmary

Thanks to this £3.8m scheme the unit will now be able to undertake an anticipated 6,500 procedures a year. In addition, the refurbishment also incorporated the addition of a £500,000 high-tech washing machine which ensures the Trust is compliant with all the latest decontamination regulations, enabling the unit to achieve ‘JAG Accreditation’.
Nightingale

Jersey Hospital Nightingale Wing

In record time – The new £14.4 million temporary hospital was built on Millbrook Playing Field in Jersey and was specifically designed to provide 180-beds for Coronavirus patients.
North View Hospital

North View Hospital

The new facility will allow the trust to provide the best possible specialist mental health care in a cutting-edge building that offers a pleasant and therapeutic environment for all.
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The Christie

A First class level of care much closer to home. Watermans delivered specialist structural, building services, environmental, infrastructure and specialist secondment services.
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NTU Clinical Skills Centre

Nottingham Trent University’s (NTU’s) innovative new ‘mock hospital’.

Royston Care Home

This care home, in the north of Edinburgh, provides accommodation for elderly residents with specialist provision for dementia and bio-metric facilities.

Broadford Community Hospital

The facility benefits from an emergency unit, out-patient department, therapy clinic, 24 bed inpatient ward along with x-ray and maternity departments.

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