Job at Royal Sussex County Hospital given confirmation by government this morning
Laing O’Rourke has been confirmed to build a £250m cancer centre at the Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton.
The five-storey centre for University Hospitals Sussex was given planning last May and formally confirmed it will go ahead this morning by the government. The centre is due to be completed in 2029.
Designed by BDP, the centre, which has been on the blocks for more than a decade, will include an increase in inpatient capacity, with all beds provided in single en-suite rooms and the addition of a dedicated acute cancer assessment unit.
This specialist facility will allow many patients to receive urgent care in a calmer, purpose-built setting rather than visiting the main A&E department, the hospital added.
McBains is project and cost manager on the scheme having worked with O’Rourke and BDP on the 11-storey Louisa Martindale Building, a new complex at the same hospital which opened three years ago.
As well as architecture, BDP is carrying out interior design, town planning, landscape architecture and sustainability services for the new cancer centre.
The scheme is being funded through the government’s New Hospitals Programme.
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