GRAHAM-BAM Healthcare Partnership Scoops Prestigious Award

The GRAHAM-BAM Healthcare Partnership has won the Building Award at the recent Concrete Society Awards.

The award was for "for outstanding merit in the use of concrete", following the extensive use of concrete and the partnership approach adopted by the project team at the new Generic Inpatient Ward Block (GWB) at the Ulster Hospital.

The award was presented to the GRAHAM­-BAM Healthcare Partnership, in association with concrete supplier, Northstone; architect, Avanti/Kennedy Fitzgerald; and engineers, Morgan Sindal Professional Services.


The GWB project for the South Eastern Health and Social Care Trust is the first phase of a four-year framework worth around £230 million and provides approximately 30,000m2 of internal floor area over seven levels for a range of new facilities. It includes a new day surgery with four operating theatres; a pharmacy department; endoscopy and cath lab procedure rooms along with 288 single rooms with en suite facilities.

The redevelopment programme also includes the provision of a new Acute Services Block. The facility, which will be linked to the new Generic Inpatient Ward Block, will provide a new emergency department, specialist wards and imaging department.

(CD/LM)