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.

The judging panel recognised the scheme specifically for its interior design, which enhanced the original features of the building and created a contemporary clean impression of the front of house, ensuring patients’ comfort and a pleasant working environment for staff.  As a building that facilitates advanced research into its fields, the design needed to be clean, modern and able to accommodate the most up-to-date research technology.

London Office Principal, Neil Murphy, said:

“The success of this scheme can be attributed to teamwork and a clear collective vision from the outset of the project. Our primary aim was to raise the aspirations of not only the centre’s visitors, patients and staff but all building users. This has successfully been achieved through the harmonious interface of both existing and contemporary features.”

Full results:

• Patient Environment Class Award for Best Interior Design: Centre for Neuromuscular Diseases at UCLH, Nightingale Associates
• Patient Environment Class Awards for Best External Space: Langley Green Hospital, Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
• Patient Environment Class Award for Best Use of Visual Art in Healthcare: Arts Programme, Bristol Heart Institute – University Hospitals of Bristol NHS Foundation Trust
• Product Class Award for Best Exterior Product: SAS Modular Solutions, SAS International
• Product Class Award for Best Interiors Product: Dyson Airblade^TM Hand Dryer, Dyson Limited
• Product Class Award for Best Ecological Product: High Efficiency, long-life, low charge natural refrigerant cooling – STAR Refrigeration
• Estate & Facilities Management Class Award for Best Facilities Management Service: Central & North West London NHS Foundation Trust Facilities Team
• Estates & Facilities Management Class Award for Best Estate Service: Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust, Estate Strategy & Plan
• Estates & Facilities Management Class Award for Best Sustainable Estates Strategy in Acute Care: Sustainable Communities – South Staffordshire & Shropshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
• Estates & Facilities Management Class Award for Best Sustainable Estates Strategy in Primary Care: The Cwm Gwyrdd Medical Centre, Cwm Taf Health Board
• People Class Award for Best Project Team: Wandsworth Recovery Centre, Springfield University Hospital, MAAP Architects
• People Class Award for Design Champion of the Year: Dr Roy Macgregor, Partner to the James Wigg Practice
• Building Design Class Award for Best Primary Care Design: Kentish Town Health Centre, Allford Hall Monaghan Morris
• Building Design Class Award for Best Community Care Design: Newton Abbey Community Hospital, Murphy Philipps Architects
• Building Design Class Award for Best Residential Care Design: Yew Tree Lodge, Hillingdon, Duggan Morris Architects
• Building Design Class Award for Best End-of-Life Care Design: Trinity Hospital, tp bennett
• Building Design Class Award for Best Mental Health Design: Oak and Beech Units, Hertfordshire Partnerships NHS Foundation Trust
• Building Design Class Award for Best Sustainable Design: The Cwm Gwyrdd Medical Centre, GPI
• Building Design Class Award for Best International Design: Akershus University Hospital, C.F. Møller Architects
• Building Design Class Award for Best Hospital Design: New Stobhill Hospital, NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde, Reiach and Hall Architects

Judges’ Special Award

White Lodge Centre, Treetops & Rendezvous Broadway Malyan

Skypad: Teenage Cancer Trust Unit (TCT), The Cardiff and Vale University Local Health Board

Lifetime Achievement Award for Services to the Healthcare Environment

Ann Noble PhD. BArch, Dip Arch, MA Sociology, Dip. Town Planning, RIBA

The senior judging panel consisted of: Design consultant, Jane Priestman OBE, RENEW Northwest’s Beatrice Fraenkel, Research fellow of the Helen Hamlyn Centre at Royal College of Art, Ed Matthews, National Chairman of HEFMA, Kevin Oxley, Special Advisor for Health at the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE), Susan Francis.

The awards, which have been running for eleven years, received a record 156 entries this year. The winners were revealed at a grand awards ceremony on 12th November 2009 at the Brewery in London.