Plot 4, Pebble Mill

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Facts

Location	Client
Birmingham	NHS

Project details

The Plot 4 at Pebble Mill is part of a wider mixed medical facility containing a 114,000 sqft oral theatre suite and cancer treatment centre, located between the Dental Hospital to the west, occupying plot 2-3 and the new Private Health Clinic to the east occupying plot 5.

Plot 4 has approximately 10,500sqm of clinical space (gross internal area) across 4 floors plus a dedicated plant floor covering the entire top floor of the building, a further roof top plant space at lower levels and an array of PV cells to the roof itself. There are 3 separate tenants housed within, which include a market leading private cancer treatment provider, operating theatres for an NHS client and teaching/training spaces for a further NHS client.

The design was developed with the specific aim of building in flexibility for potential, undefined, clinical tenants to come on board through all stages of the project, from initial design and planning stages through to ‘in use’ adaptability of the structure and external envelope. This strategy allowed for commercial marketing of the building to multiple clinical tenants with a wide range of different specialist needs – it is clearly represented in the diverse tenant mix of the building.

Our wide knowledge and experience were put to good use in designing and delivering an adaptable but efficient building suitable for 21st century medicine. Adaptability can also be applied to futureproofing the facilities we design to expand provision or change clinical use with limited material modification.

Key early design decisions that enhanced the adaptability of the building were:
Structure - An in-situ concrete structure provides flat slabs allowing services to run unimpeded within ceiling voids, allowing for drainage penetrations to be cut into the slab in the future as needed without risk of structural failure. Reinforcement, minor slab thickening and isolation to plant equipment provide the ability for each floor to house heavy, vibration sensitive, specialist equipment and enabling surgical theatres to be housed directly adjacent to plant spaces.

Cladding and fenestration - The envelope and fenestration approach limits glazing elements manageable modules. A deep reveal frame or latticework acts as a solar shading element whilst providing a regular architectural framework to give order to the design, the lattice work increases in density as you move up the building, the top most allows for a fully perforated aluminium panel to replace the lower stories of glass, this allows as many service inlets or outlets to be inconspicuously integrated into the façade through future generations of occupiers. Windows with opaque and solid elements are arranged in a random fashion across the lower storeys. This allows the design to adapt to a client’s needs for light or privacy depending on which rooms about the external façade, and the relatively small glazing module allows for partitions to abut the externa skin of the building with no effect on external appearance as the project brief develops whilst not affecting the intended overall appearance of the building from a planning perspective.