Civil and Structural Engineer — Hospitals of the Future Project at the Leeds General Infirmary Site

The Trust has secured DHSC approval of an Outline Business Case (‘OBC’) and has also secured outline planning consent. The project must be complete in 2025. The Trust is seeking to appoint an experienced and innovative healthcare focused design team.

The Trust is seeking to appoint a civil and structural engineering design team that shall include a range of specialist disciplines to include: transport, microclimate, acoustics, vibration and various related specialist surveys. The appointed consultant shall act as the lead civil and structural engineering designer. Alongside other members of the design team, the civil and structural engineering designer shall be employed directly by the Trust to develop a co-ordinated RIBA Stage 2 design solution prior to being novated to a Contractor at approximately the conclusion to RIBA Stage 2 who shall then be responsible for the production of design/construction information and providing required services through to Handover and including, where appropriate, during the use stage. The Consultant shall be responsible for the delivery of a coordinated civil and structural engineering design solution to meet the requirements of the Trust’s Design Brief. Specialist design services will be provided in relation to acoustics and vibration (including all required surveys and assessments) and a specialist Microclimate advisor is required to meet the requirements of the local authority in respect of wind/microclimate modelling and to model any impact of/upon the helipad (i.e. on the façade of the new healthcare facilities). The consultant will also be responsible for engagement will all relevant authorities to obtain Highways and Infrastructure consents. It is expected, in accordance with the scope of services, that the consultant shall also be required from time-to-time in the development of the design solution to prepare technical scopes of service and appoint other specialist consultants or survey companies.

The civil and structural engineering designer is expected to bring innovation and contribute to delivering against a challenging sustainability and net zero carbon agenda as well as supporting the Trust to meet UK Government ambition to establish digital hospitals and to maximise opportunities from Designing for Manufacture and Assembly (‘DfMA’) and Modern Methods of Construction (‘MMC’) whilst further complimenting the healthcare solution.

The Trust has secured DHSC approval of an Outline Business Case (‘OBC’) and has also secured outline planning consent. The project must be complete in 2025. The Trust is seeking to appoint an experienced and innovative healthcare focused design team.

Through this procurement process, the Trust is seeking to appoint a civil and structural engineering due diligence/technical adviser who shall be retained as the Trust’s technical adviser throughout the design and construction stages (i.e. who shall not be novated to a contractor) to provide specialist civil and structural engineering design advice in the review and assurance of design information produced by the design and contractor teams. It is expected that the civil and structural technical adviser role shall support the Trust in the review of all drawings, specifications and technical information throughout all RIBA Stages and advise the Trust on the extent to which the design solution has met the brief and identify opportunities for further development and refinement.