BDP has been confirmed as the architect and engineer converting Manchester’s exhibition centre into the latest of the government’s coronavirus surge hospitals.

The practice is understood to be working on six of the Nightingales including those in London, Harrogate and Birmingham.

Work by a team of over 400 people working 24 hours a day - including Interserve and 60 Gurkhas - to convert the NEC into an 800-bed hospital is due to complete on Good Friday. Eventually it could accommodate nearly 5,000 beds. See picture gallery above and factfile below.

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