Nightingale Associates wins at the Building Better Healthcare Awards

14 November 2008

Leading practice scoops Best Project Team and Best Interior Project

Nightingale Associates has won the Building Better Healthcare (BBH) Award for Best Project Team for its work on the Essex Cardiothoracic Centre. Another of its entrants, the Bespoke Chair for Mental Health Patients, was also ‘Highly Commended’ in the Best Interior Products category.

The annual BBH Awards recognise excellence, innovation and professionalism in the healthcare built environment, looking specifically at building design, the patient environment, people, products and estates and facilities management.

The £35m Essex Cardiothoracic Centre was designed for Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, and was completed in April 2007. Last year, Nightingale Associates’ ProCure21 partners, HBG, also won the BBH Contractor of the Year category for the same project.

Mental Health Chair

Nightingale Associates’ Bespoke Chair for Mental Health Patients was created after staff complained of inpatients being able to pick up and throw chairs at them. The chair was highly commended at the awards for combining durability and solidity with comfort, practicality and style.

Nightingale Associates, which specialises in the health, education and science sectors, had a total of four shortlisted entries in this year’s BBH Awards. It’s other entries were both in the Best Interior Design category for its work on the Mental Health Unit for Birmingham New Hospitals Project, and for the Norbury Ward at St. George’s Hospital in Staffordshire.

“We are delighted to have won these awards and that our work on these two very different projects has been recognised.

Not only is this fantastic recognition for the work that we do, but also showcases our commitment to providing the health industry with innovative, sustainable designs that enhance the experiences of both staff and patients.”

Richard Harrington, Executive Chairman,
Nightingale Associates

The awards, which have been running for ten years, received a record 141 entries this year.