BDP has been granted planning permission for upgrade work at Birmingham Children’s Hospital that will deliver new arrival space with a striking glass façade and a three-storey elective care hub at the grade II-listed building.

The practice’s proposals for the city-centre facility, which dates back to 1862 and was originally Birmingham General Hospital, also include new windows and a ground-source heat pump system with an energy centre.

BDP was appointed to the project in 2020 as part of a £442m contract that also included the delivery of new premises for Birmingham Women’s Hospital at Edgbaston, three miles to the south-west. Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust said the cost of the Children’s Hospital project was set to be around £65m.

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