Plans submitted for Irish €650M children’s hospital

BDP have submitted the planning application for the new children’s hospital in Dublin.

Overseen by the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (the NPHDB), the architectural firm, who specialise in children’s healthcare projects, have been working closely with O’Connell Mahon Architects for the past 12 months and included in the plans are two Paediatric OPD and Urgent Care Satellite Centres to be located at Tallaght Hospital and Connolly Hospital.

The €650M new children’s hospital project is envisaged to provide world class facilities to provide care for children and young people from all over Ireland who are in need of specialist and complex care.

The project will bring together three existing children’s hospitals: Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital Crumlin, Temple Street Children’s University Hospital and the National Children’s Hospital at Tallaght Hospital. These hospitals will merge to create the Children’s Hospital Group before moving to the new state-of-the-art facilities.

The 118,000sq m facility will provide 122 consultancy rooms, 473 beds and 18 operating theatres, with a 52-bed family accommodation building also proposed to be situated adjacent to the new children’s hospital on the campus at St James’s Hospital. This will allow the parents and siblings of sick children with extended hospital stay to be together during this difficult time.

John Pollock, Project Director, NPHDB said: “This has been a challenging and exciting process. To have the opportunity to oversee the design and build of a facility that will positively impact on the lives of children and their families for generations to come is quite overwhelming yet extremely rewarding.

“Over the last number of months we have listened to the needs of the staff in the hospitals and integrated them with the needs of families and children to deliver a design that works for all.  At all times, we have also taken the views and concerns of local residents into account and believe that we have designed plans for a building of which everyone can be very proud.”

Mr Leo Varadkar TD, Minister for Health said: “Today is an important milestone on the road to building our long-awaited world-class new National Children’s Hospital.

“The plans are spectacular and the design is iconic. It will be the largest single investment in healthcare in Ireland ever and subject to planning permission work will be well underway in the new year.”

Subject to approval, construction should begin in 2016, with completion due by 2019.

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