Barts and the Royal London Hospitals are managed by the Barts and The London NHS (National Health Service) Trust, and annually care for over 700,000 people. Barts Hospital is situated in central London, and the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel, East London. Prior to the redevelopment, the hospitals were in acute need of modernization and expansion following several decades of insufficient investment.

Capital Hospitals, a consortium that is jointly owned by Skanska (37.5 percent), Innisfree (50 percent) and the Dutch Infrastructure Fund (12.5 percent), is redeveloping the hospitals as part of a PFI project. The project is worth approximately US$ 1.6 billion and is the largest hospital PFI in the UK to date. Capital Hospitals is responsible for designing, building, redeveloping and maintaining the hospital buildings until 2048. The NHS Trust will continue to be responsible for managing healthcare services and the hospital buildings will revert to NHS ownership following the contract. Skanska is undertaking the design and redevelopment of the two sites, which will construct or refurbish a total floor area of 277,650 m2 and increase the number of patient beds from 1,062 up to 1,248. Redevelopment work began in May 2006 and both the Barts and The Royal London hospitals are scheduled for completion in 2016. The redeveloped Royal London hospital will include 144,000m2 of new floor space in a cluster of inter-connected contemporary glass buildings and 17,000 m2 of refurbished space. The hospital will house London’s leading trauma and emergency care center and one of Europe’s largest renal units, together with London’s Air Ambulance, which is based at the hospital and will operate from one of the new 17-storey landmark towers. The redeveloped Barts hospital will include 60,000 m2 of new floor area and 6,650 m2 of refurbished space. Two dilapidated wings were demolished and replaced with a single building that will house state-of-the-art cancer and cardiac facilities. Phase 1 of the Barts Hospital, the Cancer Centre, was completed with zero defects and became operational in March 2010.

The Barts and The London project is being constructed to meet the NHS Environmental Assessment Tool (NEAT) rating of Excellent, which requires the incorporation of sustainability into every stage of building design, construction, commissioning and management. The project has already won numerous sustainability-related awards, including a Corporate Social Responsibility Award from Construction News, a national Innovation Award from Constructing Excellence, a Waste Management Award from the Chartered Institute of Waste Management and a Sustainable Procurement Award at the national Sustainable City Awards.

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