The £842m hospital complex will treat 750,000 patients a year
Completed under budget and five weeks ahead of schedule, Australian contractor Brookfield Multiplex handed over the £842m publicly funded South Glasgow University Hospital and Royal Hospital for Sick Children to the NHS earlier this year.
Under its profit-sharing contract Brookfield Multiplex will now be rewarded a percentage of the money saved from the construction of the biggest single NHS hospital project ever undertaken in Scotland. Designed by architect IBI Group, the hospital is expected to deal with 750,000 patient episodes – including 110,000 accident and emergency patients – every year.
The toplit central atrium
The campus is built around the 14-storey tower of the adult acute care hospital. This high-rise main hospital is cross-shaped in plan, so that each of the 1,109 single en suite rooms in the general wards can have a window. None of the rooms overlooks another. The building also contains 30 modern operating theatres and is topped with a helipad.
Attached to the adult hospital, but with a separate entrance and identity, a five-storey children’s block contains more than 256 beds and a covered roof garden.
Work is now under way to fit out the hospitals, ready to receive the staff and the first patients in May.
Scottish health secretary Shona Robison said: “The Scottish government has invested £842m in this project, which will provide patients with access to services for all ages on a single site.”
A separate laboratory block that provides biochemistry, haematology and blood transfusion services was completed by Brookfield Multiplex in 2012 and is linked to the main hospital by a series of underground tunnels.
The main hospital and adjoining children’s hospital have separate entrances
