Luton & Dunstable Hospital, Bedfordshire

Perega was appointed in 2019 to develop proposals for the redevelopment of Luton and Dunstable Hospital. The project budget was set at £220million. The scope of the project was to design a new four-storey acute services building comprising theatres, maternity theatres, recovery suites and a scanning and diagnostics centre together with a new 3-storey ward building on the site of an existing administration building. In addition to the main project we have delivered a multi-storey car park, and are on-site with a £11m new energy centre. There have been numerous enabling works projects in connection with decant of space and extensions and repairs to existing buildings and infrastructure. We have also developed a RIBA Stage 2 concept for a roof-top Helipad and express lifts into the Emergency department.

In 2020 we were appointed to work alongside ADP architecture on the £19m extension and reconfiguration of the emergency department, which is currently on site. The ED works are taking place within an operational department. The design of the ED works has been carefully phased and coordinated with the clinical team to ensure that its operation is not unduly impaired as the works proceed. Designing the works around the needs of the hospital has been extremely challenging and remains so as the works proceed.

The key to our success and securing continued work on the redevelopment of the site is our collaborative culture and can-do mind-set, being agile and bringing the right people at the right time together to develop solutions and solve issues as they arise.