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Student's designs for Peak District hub wins sustainability award10/10/2011Design Buro employee and DMU architecture student Oliver Thomas has been honoured by the RIBA and OPUN, the architecture and design centre for the East Midlands, with the Student Low Carbon Award for his Hope Valley Centre project. Oliver, who is currently undertaking his RIBA Part III qualification said "It was a great honour and surprise to be nominated for the award. Winning the award has brought to an end what has been a year full of hard work and determination." Read here for the full press release.. |
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National Heat Pump Awards - Shortlisted06/06/2011The Malvern Community Hospital was been shortlisted for another award. ENER-G Sustainable Technologies entered the project into The National Heat Pump Awards 2011 in the Installation of the Year (Commercial Ground/Water Source) Category. The awards ceremony is to be held on 23rd June 2011 at the ICC, Birmingham. |
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Community Hospital Project - Shortlisted03/06/2011The Malvern Community Hospital project has been shortlisted in the "Value" category for the 2011 West Midlands Centre for Constructing Excellence awards. The awards ceremony is part of the Celebrating Construction 2011 event being held at ICC, Birmingham on 1st July 2011. |
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Nicholas Parsons Opens Juniper Centre01/06/2011Birmingham’s new centre for older people's mental health services, The Juniper Centre in Moseley, was officially opened by Nicholas Parsons, presenter of Radio 4's Just A Minute panel show. The £17m facility has been designed and built with the care of older adults in mind, including therapy rooms, large and airy single en-suite rooms, as well as an internal courtyard gardens and planting of new trees and shrubs around the site. |
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Built in Quality Award31/06/2011The Juniper Centre in Moseley, Birmingham has won a "Built in Quality" award from the Birmingham City Council Building Consultancy service. 2011 sees the 13th annual event of the Built-in Quality and Quality in Demolition awards, which will be held at the ICC on 1st July 2011, and is co-hosted by Birmingham City Council, the Chartered Institute of Building, and the West Midlands Centre for Constructing Excellence. |
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Malvern Community Hospital Highly Commended30/05/2011The Malvern Community Hospital project received a highly commended award in the Community Benefit category at the RICS West Midlands Construction and Awards Dinner 2011. The RICS awards are in their 21st year and are widely widely acknowledged as an annual celebration of built environment projects that demonstrate true excellence and commitment to sustainability and value for money. In support of the project’s success on the night, the judges commented: "This is a lovely project that makes excellent use of the site. The internal design is very pleasing, well lit and functional, while the rest of the site offers areas that are excellently planned and superbly delivered." |
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Opening of Greenhill Primary Care Centre27/05/2011The £4m Greenhill Primary Care Centre in Leabrooks, near Alfreton, Derbyshire has been officially opened. The centre is home to a GP surgery, a pharmacy and a minor surgery suite where patients can have operations traditionally only available in hospital and replaces the Jessop Medical Centre in Riddings and old Leabrooks Medical Centre. |
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Official Opening - St Oswald’s Hospital, Ashbourne Derbyshire06/05/2011Prince Edward, the Earl of Wessex, officially opened St Oswald's Hospital in Ashbourne Derbyshire. The £20m facility replaced the Ashbourne Health Centre and the old St Oswald’s Community Hospital. It is the first time NHS health services in Ashbourne have been redeveloped on a major scale since the health centre and GP practice was built about 30 years ago. Patients benefit from the vastly improved quality of services, including more spacious ward areas, en-suite rooms, physiotherapy, rehabilitation areas and easy-access tilting baths. The new development brings together key NHS services so that people can visit their local pharmacy, GP and hospital all in the same place. |
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Official Opening - Malvern Community Hospital23/02/2011HRH The Princess Royal officially opened the new £17m Malvern Community Hospital today. Addressing invited guests she said: "You have had a hospital, built 100 years ago, that has done good service, and it is clear that you have supported it well and understood its importance to the community. It is patently obvious that you have all put a lot of work into securing a suitable successor. I think of the classic example of the swan - the serene bit on the top and underneath several years of paddling like hell." She then added: "You have earned your new community hospital and I sincerely hope that not too many of you need to come here." |
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