Kier is main contractor for the Emily Siddon Building, a 6,800 sqm facility that represents phase two of the £250m National Health Innovation Campus (NIC) in Huddersfield.
Bam ԭ built the first building on the campus, the £60m Daphne Steele Building.
The Emily Siddon Building, set to open at the end of next year, will have a community diagnostic centre on the ground floor, which will be run in partnership with Calderdale & Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust. Other floors will offer specialist clinical teaching facilities and space for start-up organisations as part of the university’s health and wellbeing innovation centre.
The buildings has been designed to meet BREEAM Excellent standards and secure WELL Platinum certification.
Kier ԭ regional director Dan Doherty said it was “a fantastic project to be a part of.”
Over the past year, Kier has delivered 16 healthcare projects worth £167m for NHS trusts, including a £17m mental health centre in Islington and the £50m Dyson Cancer Centre in Bath.