ALDER CENTRE

Whitfield and Brown constructed a purpose built bereavement centre within the Alder Hey campus to support families with compassionate spaces designed for counselling and open access services. The single storey building of around three hundred and twenty square metres created a calm supportive environment suited to sensitive healthcare needs. The structure was formed using stressed brick loadbearing walls on a reinforced concrete raft slab with a timber roof finished in clay tiles. Fourteen individual timber frame pitched roofs were assembled off site and lifted into position which reduced programme time by three weeks and improved site safety. Landscaped external works and brick boundary walls completed the setting. This one point nine million pound scheme reflects Whitfield and Browns technical skill environmental awareness and ability to coordinate high quality facilities on a live hospital site with dignity and care.