Golden Jubilee Wing PFI, King's College Hospital, London
Flexibility is the key to this major project at Denmark Hill. The £75m PFI development is the most significant modernisation and construction at King’s since the hospital first moved to south-east London in 1913.
The main challenge for Nightingale Associates was to design a building on a very tight urban site which will also be able to accommodate future changes in medical priorities. The new King’s College Hospital Golden Jubilee Wing offers a fully considered vision for the future, allowing the whole hospital to be progressively modernised.
"The new clinical building at King’s (Bessemer Wing) achieved the highest score of the pilot studies carried out as part of the development of the NHS Environmental Assessment Tool (NEAT)"
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Some of the sustainability and energy principles
used on King’s:
- A significant increase in insulation values above
Building Regulation requirements; - Triple glazing with mid-pane blinds and low e-glass;
- External shading louvres to windows;
- Use of ETFE foil for the atrium roof - has a much
lower embodied energy and better U value
than the glazing alternative - Use of dot matrix on ETFE to reduce
solar gain where excessive; - Maximising natural lighting and ventilation
where possible within the site constraints; - Use of light colours in the atrium to
maximise daylight reflectance; - Permeable paving to assist rainwater
absorption into the ground; - Draft lobby to main entrance;
- Active hygienic chiller beams;
- Low energy light fittings;
- Heat recovery in main air-handling plant;
- Inverter control to all major motors in
mechanical services; - Two pipe variable flow on all heating
and chiller water systems; - Low water content quick recovery hot water clorifiers;
- Full BMS controls;
- Water saving devices.
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