Overcoming site constraints

Working with its healthcare planners and specialist design and development team, BaS LIFT undertook a service planning exercise before putting together a detailed design brief. Constrained by the existing building, this required input from its architectural team, as well as structural and civil engineers, building services and interior designers. As the proposed development would involve the remediation of contaminated former industrial land, as well as addressing a neighbouring water course, BaS LIFT worked closely with the Environment Agency throughout the project. The resulting design includes temporary flood alleviation measures to overcome the prospect of flooding, while any volatile organic compounds were also removed from the land to ensure the site was developable.