Building Better Healthcare Awards 2009: Winners announced

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Nightingale Associates scooped the Patient Environment Class Award for Best Interior Design of the Centre of Neuromuscular Diseases at UCLH at this year’s Building Better Healthcare (BBH) Awards.

The annual BBH Awards celebrate excellence, innovation and professionalism in the healthcare built environment, looking specifically at building design, the patient environment, people, products and estates and facilities management.

The winning project, the Centre for Neuromuscular Diseases at UCLH, was extensively refurbished earlier this year to provide a stimulating and modern environment in which to conduct specialist scientific research. The centre, which is located in an early twentieth-century central London building, has a ‘contemporary fitting in the classical shell’ design theme, displaying a unique mix of modern architectural design concepts with many carefully-restored original features.

Women’s International Centre for Economic Development in 3D

A 3D fly-through presentation has been released of Nightingale Associates’ design of the Women’s International Centre for Economic Development (WICED) in Liverpool.

Train 2000 Ltd, supported by its partners Liverpool City Council and Liverpool Vision, are developing the centre, with design by Nightingale Associates.

The 2,000sqm centre is the first of its kind in the UK and will be located in the heart of Liverpool and is expected to help 3,000 women set up businesses, creating 4,500 new jobs over the next ten years.

The new-build project, to be completed in late 2010, will contain a range of offices, training & conference facilities and incubator space for new businesses. It is being jointly-funded by WICED, the North West Development Agency, Future Builders, Train 2000, Liverpool Vision, and Liverpool Council.