Ged Couser

Principal Manchester/Liverpool

T: +44 [0]161 828 2200
E: ged.couser@bdp.com

Ged is a principal who leads the architect profession group in our Manchester studio.

Ged’s work is primarily focused upon healthcare and science and technology. He has extensive knowledge and experience of leading the design and delivery of major and complex projects in these sectors, from initial concept stage through to completion. He has a meticulous design approach and enjoys creating innovative solutions for the challenging problems that sometimes occur on both healthcare and sci-tech projects.

He is currently the project director for the new major Christie Paterson Research Laboratory in Manchester and was the project director for the multiple award winning Alder Hey Children’s Hospital and the Clatterbridge Cancer Centre in Liverpool, which was handed over in June 2020. Both projects are major healthcare facilities with supporting pathology and production pharmacy services within them. He was also the architect project director for the NHS Nightingale North West hospital at Manchester Central Convention Complex which delivered a 750 bed regional Covid-19 emergency hospital in just two weeks.

Ged is on the Places Matter North West Design Review panel and in 2015 was appointed as a Built Environment Expert (BEE) by Design Council CABE. He is also a committee member of Manchester’s Forum for the Built Environment and is a former president of the RIBA Manchester Society of Architects.

Architecture of the future will be …

Increasingly sustainable in all aspects of its conception, design and delivery by absolute necessity. This will apply to all sectors and building types if our planet is to continue to exist in the way that we recognise it today. Zero Carbon needs to become a realistic and common project ambition.

Projects

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Clatterbridge Cancer Centre

Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest networked cancer centres in the UK.

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Alder Hey Children’s Health Park

The building rises out of the park on approach with an undulating profile, making it instantly recognisable and a striking and iconic gateway to Liverpool.

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Queen's Hospital

A new 993 bed acute PFI hospital. A 993 bed acute hospital with a unique podium organisation of diagnostic and treatment facilities for optimum functional adjacency which includes an 18-place renal dialysis unit.

Universities in Libya

Ten new universities open Libya up to the West. Eighteen faculty types — covering all Engineering, Humanities and Health Sciences sectors — will accommodate 38,000 students and there will be 15,000 student residential and 600 staff units.

Brunel Building, Southmead Hospital

The new hospital presents a high quality public face utilising a semi-randomised façade aesthetic giving a non-institutional character to the bedroom wings.

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News

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BDP attends European Healthcare Design Conference

13/06/2022

The 2022 European Healthcare Design conference is a global convening of design and healthcare professionals in London. This year, the event is focused on, "Recovery, Renewal & Rediscovery: Planning a climate-smart healthcare system".

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Transforming Cancer Care

22/07/2020

Healthcare director Ged Couser will present the recently opened Clatterbridge Cancer Centre in a webinar jointly hosted by the Save Construction Initiative and Constructing Excellence.

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New Clatterbridge Cancer Centre, Liverpool emerges as The Liner

08/06/2020

The famous maritime city of Liverpool has a striking new form on the city skyline, that of the curving prow of Clatterbridge Cancer Centre – Liverpool (CCC-L), already nicknamed The Liner.

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CTBUH Webinar

17/06/2020

Architect principal Ged Couser is one of a panel of industry leaders for a Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) webinar on how we have adapted to become more resilient and able to deliver during some of the most challenging of times.

NHS Manchester Nightingale finished within two weeks

17/04/2020

BDP and Integrated Health Projects (IHP) are proud to have been instrumental in the creation of the Manchester Nightingale Hospital at the Manchester Central Convention Complex that opened officially Friday 17 April.

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Manchester Central to turn into NHS Nightingale Hospital North West

08/04/2020

Manchester studio has designed the conversion of the Grade II* listed G-MEX conference centre into the NHS Nightingale Hospital North West.

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Ged Couser presents at Healthy Cities forum

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Watch Manchester principal Ged Couser present Alder Hey Children's Hospital, at the Healthy Cities forum.

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Healthy Cities

09/10/2017

Manchester principal Ged Couser joins the Healthy Cities panel to discuss the award-winning Alder Hey Children’s Hospital.

Designing for Sick Children

Dominic Hook and Ged Couser

Architect directors Dominic Hook and Ged Couser discuss their approach to designing for sick children.

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