Healthtec Centre, Walsall

The project is a flagship learning and training Medical Centre which boasts a health suite complete with ambulance entrance, triage area and treatment area, providing students on a number of health related courses with a 'real life' health care environment.

Client:
Willmott Dixon Construction

Location:
Walsall

Project Value:
£6,000,000

Services Provided:
Civil and Structural Engineering Consultancy

Description

Facilities, including meeting rooms, training suites, a fully interactive lecture theatre and a cafe, will be available for the local community to use.

The college building includes various perimeter classrooms and meeting rooms with a double storey height central learning/break out space with a series of glazed Northlights to provide natural light throughout. The main oval lecture theatre with its copper seamed cladding forms a contrasting feature to the main entrance elevation.

The building form comprises of a steel frame with the floor slab and main roof areas being precast floor units. The foundation solution adopted traditional pad bases and strip footings however due to the site location and the presence of historic mine workings nominal reinforcement was included in the bottom of all foundations.