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Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Edinburgh

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Project Description

The new £180M RHSC facility has 1,800 rooms over 50,000m² in a modern and high-quality setting at Little France, Edinburgh. The five-storey building, has a large atrium with a shop and cafe, a stunning skylight linking both hospital entrances, a helipad on the roof and a link building adjoining adult and paediatric emergency departments.


Specific Project Challenges

  • The single largest ever BIM project undertaken by HLM Architects
  • A roof of highest quality to ensure best environment for patients
  • The first acute hospital facility to be procured under the Scottish Government’s Non Profit Distributing Model (NPD)


Solutions Offered

The standing seam system incorporated a series of tapered and straight sheets to ensure that the curved roof plan was achieved without the need for junctions, as well as providing the platform for a vast array of photovoltaics, and a permanent roof access walkway.


Ash & Lacy also supplied support in the form of site inspections throughout the construction process, design for roof tapers and all perimeter and feature fabrications and fasteners.

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