Interested to see what the National Rehabilitation Centre (the NRC) will look like inside and out? A new architect’s fly-through animation is giving future staff, patients and researchers a feel for how the building will work, how its environment will support wellbeing and what it will be like when it opens in late 2024.
The short animated film takes the viewer on a journey into and through the NRC building, showing how the space has been carefully designed to enable the NRC’s three core functions: clinical rehabilitation; research, development and commercial innovation; and training and education.
“The NRC is about much more than a building and it’s important to give people a sense of what’s coming, what it will look like, and how it will work. The fly-through is a great tool for sharing the vision and involving the future workforce at the NRC so everyone can get ready for when the facility opens in late 2024. We’re proud of the building and its many design features but what matters most of all is creating a place which functions for the clinical purpose and which genuinely shifts the dial when it comes to outcomes for patients.” Ryan McCormack, Head of NRC Programme Construction & Commercial
“The NRC is about much more than a building and it’s important to give people a sense of what’s coming, what it will look like, and how it will work. The fly-through is a great tool for sharing the vision and involving the future workforce at the NRC so everyone can get ready for when the facility opens in late 2024. We’re proud of the building and its many design features but what matters most of all is creating a place which functions for the clinical purpose and which genuinely shifts the dial when it comes to outcomes for patients.”
Ryan McCormack, Head of NRC Programme Construction & Commercial
The NRC will be one of the early schemes to be delivered under the government’s commitment to build more than 40 new hospitals by 2030. It will also be designed to be Net Zero Carbon, in line with the wider Greener NHS pledge to be the world’s first net zero national health service.
The Full Business Case (FBC) has now been submitted to the government for sign off by the Treasury and, subject to that approval, main construction is anticipated to begin on site in early 2023.
Watch the animation here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SgUgXL76f8
“With the final green light in our sights, we’re getting very close to bringing our vision for the NRC to life. The team has worked tremendously hard to prepare a compelling Full Business Case which evidences all of the benefits the NRC will deliver and the positive impact it will provide. We’re looking forward to securing the last stage of our approval and to getting on with creating this much-needed facility.” Miriam Duffy, NRC Programme Director
“With the final green light in our sights, we’re getting very close to bringing our vision for the NRC to life. The team has worked tremendously hard to prepare a compelling Full Business Case which evidences all of the benefits the NRC will deliver and the positive impact it will provide. We’re looking forward to securing the last stage of our approval and to getting on with creating this much-needed facility.”
Miriam Duffy, NRC Programme Director
The animation has been produced by Ryder Architecture and Render 3D.
Ryder Architecture are part of a professional design team that includes Arup and Fira (landscape architects). Construction of the facility will be managed by Integrated Health Projects (IHP), a consortium between Sir Robert McAlpine and Vinci Construction UK.
The designs for the NRC are inspired by best practice from around the world and have a modern look and feel which complements the traditional architectural style of the Defence Medical Rehabilitation Centre (‘DMRC Stanford Hall’) which is 400m away across the Stanford Hall Rehabilitation Estate. The NRC will share some specialist facilities with the DMRC such as the hydrotherapy pool, gait lab and CAREN (Computer Assisted Rehabilitation Environment) which is a high-tech treadmill device to help people to learn to walk again.
Nottingham University Hospitals (NUH) NHS Trust is the NRC Programme sponsor and leading the FBC process.
Also crucial to the overall opportunity at the NRC is a National Clinical Academic Partnership of 22 Higher Education Institutions with the University of Nottingham and Loughborough University as the leads. This partnership, which will bring research, innovation, education and training directly alongside clinical rehabilitation, is one of the things that will make the NRC truly unique.