Redevelopment of the Manchester joint hospitals site involved demolishing over 30 large buildings and constructing a new main hospital building and mental health facilities plus ancillary medical and facilities management buildings In the UK health and education sectors we’ve gained a leading position as a supplier of professional technical services to public sector bodies, financiers, developers, constructors, operators and insurers using PFI and other procurement methods to develop new facilities.

Our education portfolio includes a number of schools developed under the UK government's Building Schools for the Future initiative, aimed at creating world-class, 21st century schools to inspire learning for decades to come and provide exceptional assets for the whole community by rebuilding or renewing every secondary school in England over a 10-15 year period.

Wherever we can we aim to include sustainability into our designs. For the £60 million Gateshead Schools PFI project – which includes two new secondary schools and five new primary schools on five sites – we introduced renewable energy proposals such as roof mounted wind turbines, thermal solar panels, photovoltaic panels and rain water harvesting. While for the Newcastle Schools programme we incorporated natural ventilation, intelligent control systems, thermal efficiency, good daylighting reuse of materials into the designs.

In the health sector we’re working on a number of major developments including the £390 million Manchester joint hospitals project featuring a new 124,000m² main hospital building. Our portfolio also features smaller schemes such as Milton Keynes General Hospital NHS Trust's £12 million new diagnostic treatment centre where we provided structural engineering design in one of the first Procure 21 partnering teams.