First of 40 faciities opens in Poole
BDP has overseen the completion of the first of 40 new NHS diagnostic centres in England using reclaimed and reused materials from the dismantled Nightingale hospitals.
The firm, which was behind many of the surge hospitals at the start of the pandemic including the first at the ExCel in London, designed a breast screening and diagnostics centre in a disused part of a department store at Poole in Dorset.
Paul Johnson, architect director at BDP who led the design of the ExCel Nightingale, said the idea was to repeat the