New Stobhill Hospital wins the 'Best Healthcare Building' Award 2009
New Stobhill Hospital has won the 'Best Healthcare Building' Award 2009 in this year's Glasgow Institute of Architects' Annual Design Awards. This makes it two years in a row for Reiach and Hall as our Beatson Institute for Cancer Research for the University of Glasgow won the GIA's 'Best Healthcare Building' Award in 2008 and was honoured with the Supreme Medal.
New Stobhill Hospital represents the first of its kind to open in Scotland. This £80 million hospital, procured under PPP, delivers creative responses to social, economic and technical sustainability, inclusion, flexibility and adaptability and aspires to the highest design standards. The brief was for a true ACAD (ambulatory care and diagnostic) and the ethos behind the project is that the patient comes first: medical tests/consultations are carried out on the same day on the same site if possible, and if a medical procedure is required, the patient is given a fixed appointment date there and then.
New Stobhill Hospital is also the winner of the Roses Design Awards 'Best Public Building' 2009 and 'Best of the Best' Architecture Grand Prix Award, and won the Building Better Healthcare 'Award for Best Hospital Design' 2009 - the UK's biggest healthcare building design event.
The GIA Award for New Stobhill Hospital was not the only award in this year's award results for Reiach and Hall: Aurora House for Clydebank ReBuilt received the 'Best Office/Commercial Building' Award 2009 commendation - the highest ranked award credited in this category.
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