Princeway Integrated Resource Centre

As Development Partner, Cityheart’s role included acquiring the land, completing the design development process, obtaining planning consent, appointing a contractor and managing the construction phase through to delivery in December 2011, on schedule and on budget.

Following a rigorous selection process, Pochin Construction were chosen as the principle contractor. They delivered this BREEAM ‘Excellent’ building ahead of schedule and on budget. Furthermore, under our detailed activity review in the pre-development phase, we were able to reduce overall size of the accommodation by approximately 25%, leading to a substantial revenue saving for the NHS.

The services now enhanced and provided by the new centre include Community Contraception and Sexual Health Service, Community Heart Failure Service, Community Matrons, Community Midwives (Children’s Services), Continence Service, Dental Services, Dermatology Service, Dietetics, District Nursing, Health Improvement, Health Visitors (Children’s Services), Mental Health Services (Primary Care), Minor Surgery, Phlebotomy Service, Physiotherapy (MSK Service), Podiatry, School Health Service, Speech and Language Therapy, Social Services and Tissue Viability Service.

A further requirement to the brief was the inclusion of local artwork that would connect with the staff and public who would ultimately use the building and provide them a sense of connection and ownership. To achieve this, an art co-ordinator was commissioned who worked with stakeholders groups and the local schools which identified the themes of locality and DNA as the most prevalent. These themes were integrated in to the design by volunteers bringing in local items of interest that were photographed and also providing DNA swabs. A selection of images were strategically hung internally in the DNA sequencing pattern for a number of anonymous individuals. Externally the paving pattern was colour coded to provide further DNA sequencing of anonymous individuals. No single individual is aware of who’s DNA sequencing pattern was used in the art design, only that it is from the local population.