Paymaster General and and Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude declared that hospitals should look more like sheds if the country was to deal with ever-changing developments in clinical care and technologies.
In his keynote speech last Tuesday at the government’s official launch of its construction strategy at the Institute of Civil Engineers, designed to shave 20% of public building costs by 2015, Maude stated that in the field of health building procurement ‘we should be building sheds for adaptability, as we are currently building-in obsolescence.’
Maude stated that of the £22BN for construction procurement, £2.2BN is earmarked for health building, but intimated that a sea-change in health procurement thinking might be called for. Building Design magazine reported that Maude felt that buildings should be adaptablefor 10 or 20 years time, when clinical needs change.
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