Burton Hospital Car Park MSCP

Our Approach

The NHS Hospital Trust had a goal to transform and enhance the staff, visitor, and patient experience in relation to parking. The requisite of this facility was to ensure a safer, sustainable, and future proofed experience for all whilst also freeing up space for another part of their hospital site to be developed. The design team which included Gilling Dodd Architects, Couch Consulting and Couch Perry Wilkes were engaged early and workshops with subcontractors took place to ensure the project met the Trusts vision. With the new car park located closer to the hospital, increased lighting and CCTV cameras, the project provides a stylish lasting legacy for the hospital and community.

Social Impact

The team supported a range of local businesses and charities within the area. Every week, the hospital would set up a fruit and veg stall at the front entrance of the hospital. The team would buy regularly from here and provide the fruit and veg to our site operatives which helped meet health and wellbeing objectives. The Trust also has their own charity (Derby & Burton Hospitals Charity) which is dedicated to helping nurses and staff through the COVID-19 pandemic. We donated £250 to this fantastic cause and donated £450 worth of materials to a local charity in Burton who work with local schools and provide work for disadvantaged people.

During the project, the team organised school visits for a few schools and a local nursery on the project. This included children from Highfield Spencer Academy, Ravensdale Primary School and the hospital staff’s children. The children had a hand in helping build the car park by safely sitting and driving in one of the diggers. They left with a goody bag provided by Ivor Goodsite and a certificate for their good work helping build the car park.

The project ran through a difficult COVID-19 period which tragically saw the loss of many NHS Staff. The Trust was keen to develop a memorial area for friends and families to come and remember the lost ones. A memorial heart was created by the Trust and the team donated and installed a plinth for the hospital which was our way of saying Thank you.

Morgan Sindall are the gold standard. They are compassionate, they're caring, extremely professional, extremely easy to work with. They go above and beyond and they they've lived and breathed what they said they would do. For me it's the holistic approach to everything they did. I knew if they cared that much about their staff and the environment that their staff worked in, they would care that much about our job and our patients, and that was that was followed through with the build"
Melissa Howe, General Manager Estates and Facilities, Burton Hospital