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Our global network of engineers, consultants and advisors are passionate about creating the best outcomes for people – for staff, patients and their families. Through our designs and advice, we deliver high-quality projects that support the highest standards of modern clinical care in high-performance, efficient buildings.

Healthcare trends

The impacts of climate change, digital transformation and the constant evolution of medical science bring many challenges, but also many opportunities for healthcare designers.

Helping you decarbonize

One of the greatest challenges facing healthcare facilities is decarbonisation. Our experts in net zero have expertise across a wide range range of technical engineering disciplines. We can help with your decarbonisation journey, navigating a roadmap for both old and new infrastructure.

Innovating to net zero

Embracing technology to enable better Healthcare

Digital technology can enhance the experiences of patients, their families and hospital staff. We can help you to navigate your digital transformation journey, from solving complex problems and bringing insights from data, to optimising your facility’s operational performance through digitisation.

Accelerate your digital transformation

Creating flexible and adaptive facilities

To be future ready, the ability of a healthcare facility to flex and adapt quickly to the changing needs of the community it serves is of paramount importance. With this in mind, through their advice and designs, our teams enable our clients to anticipate the potential flexibility of their projects.

Enabling flexibility

Modern Methods of Construction

Modern Methods of Construction (MMC) provide a safe, efficient and sustainable alternative to traditional methods. We have been leaders in the adoption of new construction technologies for over 20 years, rethinking offsite construction and incorporating integrated digital design delivery.

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Our approach

Positive Experiences

Healthcare facilities are never just a building – they are places that touch patients and their families at a critical moment in their lives, often when they are at their most vulnerable. We think differently about how to create a nurturing environment for everyone, from patients and their families to clinical and supporting staff.

Healing Environments

Patient safety is a guiding principle in every decision we take. Our specialist teams integrate hygiene and infection control into the earliest concept drawings, to actively promote wellbeing and protect all patients, as well as the caregivers who look after them.

Operational Excellence

Providing high-quality, affordable, sustainable healthcare means making the best possible use of limited resources, while meeting the most exacting technical standards. Our clients rely on us to deliver high-performance buildings whilst being cost effective to operate, leaving them free to focus on delivering for the communities who depend on them

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Rotorua, New Zealand

Designing and engineering Rotorua's new Acute Mental Health Unit

WSP is undertaking design and engineering services for the construction of a new mental health facility on the grounds of Rotorua Hospital in New Zealand. The existing Whare Whakaue facility, which is over four decades old and in poor condition, has been hindering the delivery of quality care.

Qatar

A roadmap for transformative care

Lexica, member of WSP, led healthcare planning for Hamad Medical Corporation’s clinical and facilities masterplans, with a particular focus on its flagship Tertiary care campuses, Al Daayan and Hamad Bin Khalifa Medical City in Doha, Qatar – one of the largest planned healthcare projects in the Middle East. The masterplan vision is to provide world class patient care and experience while meeting future demand in future-ready facilities designed to respond to changing requirements of the health service in an agile manner.

Hong Kong

The Chinese Medicine Hospital of Hong Kong

Our Visioneers integrate tradition with innovation, redefining the standard for modern Chinese medicine care.

California, USA

Breaking New Ground With an All-Electric Hospital

Building on its clinical expertise and in keeping with its unique academic medical organization, UCI Health envisioned a state-of-the-art hospital to consolidate its medical campus in Orange County, California.

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Maryland, USA

Meritus Medical Center – COVID-19 Unit

WSP was part of the team that delivered this regional infectious containment (RIC) unit in just four months – an expansion critical in the fight against COVID-19.

Adelaide, Australia

U-city

Creating a technology rich development in specialist disability and senior living

Hefei , China

Boe Hefei Digital Hospital

Connected, people-oriented healthcare

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Projects

New Specialty Pediatric Medical Center opens in Texas

Scottish Rite for Children Orthopedic and Sports Medicine Center is now serving patients in the North Texas region.

Wales, UK

The Grange University Hospital

We were at the heart of a digital collaboration that pushed the possibilities of 3D design and off-site construction to deliver the largest capital project in Wales ahead of schedule.

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Newark, Delaware

Christiana Care Health System – Christiana Hospital – Women And Children’s Addition, Newark, Delaware, Usa

A Commitment to Women’s Healthcare

Riyadh and Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Security Forces Medical Complex

Creating the largest medical complex ever built in the Middle East

Plano, USA

Sarah Cannon Cancer Hospital

HCA Healthcare, the owner, commissioned WSP and various partners to build this four-storey hospital facility, which includes 30 specially designed burn and trauma ICU rooms.