Brief Overview

As part of a full project team led by MACE, we assisted in creating a new health care centre on the stie of Dulwich Community Hospital to improve the surrounding area.  Located over three storeys, the centre provides a range of core care services, including children’s services, physiotherapy, community mental health, renal dialysis and services for patients with long term mental health conditions.  

Building Considerations

This was also designed to accommodate non-clinical community services, such as exercise classes, education sessions and voluntary sector activities.

High Level Engagement

One of our goals was to ensure a good working relationship with the team and stakeholders, working with the client team at the beginning allowed us to deliver their combined aspirations for the project. To ensure good working relationships we undertook initial meetings with the NHS and their current maintenance company for any integrated requirements with the current site to mitigate any risks at early stage of the project. We reviewed the client’s requirements for specific items, manufacturers or design requirements and at stage 3 design information provide was expressly introduced to the specification. 

As part of the project a tech-savvy approach included completing two rooms several months prior to handover, including all services and furniture to test out and potential issues or improvements that could be made for the end client.

Sam Hepplewhite, Director for Southwark at NHS South-East London CCG said, “The new health centre will play an important role in helping to join together local services and help us to improve the health and wellbeing of people in south Southwark”