Dumfries & Galloway Hospital building news

Dumfries & Galloway Hospital Building, South West Scotland healthcare facility, Architecture image

Dumfries & Galloway Hospital Building

Healthcare Facility in Southwest Scotland by Ryder Architecture / NBBJ, built with Off-site construction method DfMA

post updated 26 November 2023 ; July 2023 ; 13 Dec 2017

Design: Ryder Architecture and NBBJ

Dumfries & Galloway Hospital Opens Its Doors

12th December 2017 – The new £212m Dumfries and Galloway Hospital has officially opened its doors after transferring staff and patients from their old site across the weekend.

Bennett Architectural teamed up once again with Laing O’Rourke on the construction of the 344-bed new build facility.

Dumfries & Galloway Hospital Building
image courtesy of Bennett Architectural

Dumfries & Galloway Hospital Building Construction

Off-site construction method DfMA (Design for Manufacture and Assembly) was used to pre-install windows into high specification concrete panels saving on-site labour cost at Laing O’Rourke’s Explore Industrial Park in Worksop.

Lionel Grant, Managing Director at Bennett Architectural commented,
“We were delighted to support the building of this state-of-the-art new hospital for NHS Dumfries and Galloway.

“Working with Laing O’Rourke we used DfMA, which we have previously used on two hospital projects in Cumbria and North Staffordshire. With less on-site installation work this also lowers the carbon emissions for the project as a whole; which is vitally important.”

Health Secretary Shona Robison added,
“The new hospital will transform the way services are provided to local patients in Dumfries and Galloway and I am very much looking forward to seeing the new facility.”

Dumfries and Galloway Royal Infirmary is the main hospital in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. The hospital is managed by NHS Dumfries and Galloway.

The hospital has its origins in a small facility at Mill Hole in Burns Street in central Dumfries which opened as the Dumfries Infirmary in 1776.

In 2012 it was announced that a new 350-bed hospital would be built on the A75 close to the Garroch roundabout. It was procured under a Private Finance Initiative contract in March 2015.

This new hospital facility was designed by Ryder Architecture and NBBJ and built by Laing O’Rourke at a cost of £213 million. The new hospital was officially opened by the Princess Royal in July 2018.

This Scottish healthcare facility serves the town in which it is located, but also the catchment area of South West Scotland with a population of around 150,000. The property is made up entirely of 344 single rooms. Each of these rooms has a computer point to allow real-time updating of patient records.

Website: www.nhsdg.co.uk

Dumfries Architecture

Dumfries & Galloway Buildings

Dumfries Buildings

Dumfries & Galloway Buildings

Dumfries Theatre Building

Scottish Hospital Buildings

Scottish Hospital Property Designs – recent architectural selection below:

Glasgow Hospital Buildings

Glasgow Royal Infirmary Intensive Care Unit Phase 2
Design: Reiach and Hall Architects
Glasgow Royal Infirmary ICU
image from architect practice
Glasgow Royal Infirmary

Queen Elizabeth University Hospital Glasgow
Design: IBI Group
Glasgow hospital building atrium
photo : Infinite3D
Queen Elizabeth University Hospital Glasgow

Glasgow Infirmary
Date built: 1981
Design: Sir Basil Spence, Glover & Ferguson

Scottish Hospitals

New Southern General Hospital

Children’s Hospice by Loch Lomond

New Victoria Hospital

Glasgow Building Designs

Contemporary Glasgow Property Designs – recent architectural selection below:

Glasgow Walking Tours

WASPS South Block Glasgow
Maggies Gartnavel
photograph : Dapple Photography
WASPS South Block Glasgow

St Enoch Centre Glasgow Redevelopment
St Enoch Centre Glasgow Renewal
image courtesy of architects practice
St Enoch Centre Glasgow Redevelopment

Ghost of Water Row (no budget – all work and material given in kind)
Edo Architecture (Client: Edo Architecture)
The Ghost of Water Row

Kelvingrove Art Gallery

Glasgow Transport Museum

George Square Glasgow

Glasgow Buildings

Buildings / photos for the Dumfries & Galloway Hospital Building built by Laing O’Rourke in southwest Scotland, United Kingdom, page welcome.