Willmott Dixon is bringing its pre-design concepts to the healthcare market following the success of Sunesis and CODE which have secured the company over £200m in orders in the last five years
Willmott Dixon has joined forces with architect Penoyre & Prasad to develop an integrated health hub called Cura which provides NHS Trusts and councils with a new generation of pre-designed community healthcare facilities to drive cost efficiency and encourage better collaboration of health and social care services.
Cura is a repeatable solution to the challenge of creating new, fit-for-purpose buildings that are future proof for the needs of local healthcare. It is believed to be the first such concept available for healthcare customers.
Cura adopts the latest construction methods by using a pre-cast concrete frame structure built off-site for added speed of delivery, with a minimal degree of fixed internal structure. It offers standard sized multi-use rooms designed as clusters that enable NHS Trusts to tailor their hub to suit individual clinical departmental requirements, such as therapies, dental, general practices, diagnostics and mental health.
Similar to Sunesis and CODE, Cura has been designed to give healthcare customers certainty of cost, time and quality. It can be adapted into a combination of sizes, starting from 1,500m2 and rising to 5,000m2.
Cura is already attracting interest from NHS Trusts and councils across the country. Construction timescales are quick, taking approximately 40 weeks depending on the size of the chosen hub.
Willmott Dixon’s Cura lead, Anastasia Chrysafi: “Our in-house health specialists have invested heavily in taking learning from our pre-design products developed for the education, leisure and custodial sectors to bring these advantages to healthcare.
“Cura will give NHS Trusts, councils and their partners the benefit of quicker delivery for much needed facilities with the added bonus of cost, programme and quality certainty, which is a key issue with the budget restraints in place.”
“Importantly, we configure the internal layout to suit local needs, with the pre-cast element also providing high levels of thermal mass, which moderates the internal temperature and makes the building as energy-efficient as possible.”
