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Originally Posted by Osem
I often wonder why new hospitals aren't all based on the same basic design, perhaps modular, so that they're aren't all the huge extra costs associated with architects, designs, fancy bespoke steel/glass etc. etc. Given the size and potential buying power of the NHS why isn't more equipment, furniture, fixtures, fittings etc. standardised to drive down costs?
Who cares if all our hospitals etc. look similar and are more functional? I'm more worried about the quality of treatment than I am fancy designer glass clad atria and facades.
A local care centre was built with a fancy glass entrance which, to prevent it becoming too hot in summer, required a bespoke steel structure and canopy to shade it. The canopy has since started to fail and will need to be replaced at significant cost I'd imagine. Wouldn't a normal entrance have sufficed and avoided the extra cost?
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Not to mention the space wasted, my local hospital feels and looks like a shopping centre and then you discover it was designed by an American mail architect & it floods whenever it rains heavy...