Refurb &
Following years of under investment, large parts of the UK Mental Health building estate is not in a fit for purpose condition. The sheer size of the backlog, plus scarcity of capital, availability of land, planning restrictions and time pressures, sometimes means that new build solutions are not always feasible. As such, today’s designers need to work creatively to repurpose and reimagine existing spaces and structures to create modern, compliant, and productive environments for Mental Health and Wellbeing. This challenge can sometime bring about real innovation, with the end products sometimes surpassing the aspiration of new builds, drawing on as they do, established sites, links to local communities and strong cultural connections. By understanding the roots and historic relationships of services and communities, we can apply best practice and evidenced based innovation, to breathe new life into tired buildings, in a truly sustainable way. Imaginative interior design solutions, structural expertise, creative adaptation design, envelope upgrades, retrofit applications of new technology, immersive landscape design, are all elements that help to create truly astounding refurbishment and repurposing projects. Combining wiour deep understanding of the HBN/ HTMs, the only barrier to such potential is our imagination.
Renew
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