| Project: 9 GP Practice / Pharmacy / Primary Care Trust Size: 2,200 sq m Commenced on-site: August 2005 Completed: January 2007 |
GPI Project Director: William Sheardown, Director South East Architectural Design: ADM Construction: Farnrise Construction Ltd Employer's Agent and Planning Supervisor: Chawton Hill Associates Ltd |
 In 2003 GPI and the now West Sussex PCT started working together with the Dolphins Practice, then sharing an outdated practice in the town centre. The project vision was to create a Health Campus on this PCT owned site, at Butlers Green Road, Haywards Heath, with a new primary care centre, including the Kleinwort intermediate care centre and a care home. The primary care centre would house the Practice and several PCT led services, such as audiology, paediatrics and office accommodation, plus a pharmacy. GPI and their locally experienced professional team worked closely with all parties including the local Planning Authority maximising site potential to meet individual user needs so that they interacted from the outset and provided flexibility for the future whilst ensuring safe access to on-site parking for new and existing site users. The detailed design and close consultation process achieved planning consent for a new 2,100 sq m building, providing GP Practice accommodation on the Ground and 1st Floors, PCT accommodation on 2nd and 3rd floors with dedicated access, a flexible pharmacy unit, accessed from either the Practice or independently and 70 dedicated parking spaces on site. Overall future flexibility was attained through adopting an innovative concrete frame design (minimising internal structural walls) and incorporating two central circulations. GPI worked closely with the PCT, Practice and pharmacy to finalise all legal documentation, including site acquisition from the PCT, together with the District Valuer to ensure “Value for Money” GPI’s project manager acting as the primary point of contact coordinated not only the building contractor and clients but also existing site users to ensure their access and needs were met throughout. The demolition of the existing redundant building on site and construction of the new primary care centre was completed on time and within budget allowing the Practice and PCT to move, in January 2007, into their new building. This has enabled the Practice and PCT to provide the level and range of services they aspire to give their patients and achieved the vision of creating a health campus. We at GPI continue to work in partnership with them, through our dedicated facilities management team making sure the building continues to provide the high standards which they have come to enjoy. |
