Engineer who led NHS Nightingale design is recovering from covid-19

By Elizabeth Hopkirk2020-04-09T05:00:00

Coordinating deliveries at NHS Nightingale

Hospital opened last week and began taking first patients on Tuesday

The BDP principal who helped come up with the plan to convert the ExCeL into an emergency coronavirus hospital has caught the illness himself.

James Hepburn, an engineer who has been with BDP for 13 years, also revealed his wife, a consultant anaesthetist at Great Ormond Street, might volunteer to work at the NHS Nightingale once she is out of quarantine.

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