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Matthew Hay Project
Bennetts Associates
£16m
Medical Education Facility

Images of the proposed Medical buildings from the architects, Bennetts
Associates, 30 Aug 2006:

PR re Matthew Hay building Aug 2006:
Matthew Hay was both the Medical Officer for Health for Aberdeen and
a professor at the University in the 1930's. He was instrumental in establishing
both Aberdeen Royal Infirmary and the Medical School at Foresterhill because
he believed strongly in the benefits of having undergraduate learning
and clinical practice together on one site.
The Matthew Hay Project takes forward his vision in the 21st Century by
providing not only a joint training and learning facility but a building
where students and health practitioners can meet both formally and informally
to further strengthen the relationship between the NHS and University.
The underlying vision for the Matthew Hay Project is not only to promote
clinical excellence but also to act as an inspirational environment for
students and professionals. Spaces are therefore deliberately configured
to help formal and informal interaction. There is a great opportunity
to display contemporary and historic artefacts as a learning resource
and an important link to the history of medicine and its particular resonance
with Aberdeen.
The new building needs to be both functional and flexible enough to meet
the continual changes and advances in health teaching. It will be a centre
for telemedicine and video conferencing facilities will ensure outreach
throughout Scotland and abroad.
The brief specified a high level of environmental sustainability and the
assessment at present is on target to achieve a level of 'excellent' in
a nationally recognised benchmarking scale. Elements of the building have
therefore been computer modelled to predict future summer temperatures
in rooms to ensure they do not overheat. This is important - even in the
north of Scotland! Particularly with the knowledge that temperatures are
set to rise because of global warming.
The site, in the north of the Foresterhill campus, is ideally placed for
both institutions and offers an opportunity for a new external social
space and a link to the adjacent walled garden at Foresterhill House.
This will provide a quiet and leafy spot in a busy campus. Plant species
are being sourced with their medicinal use in mind thereby relating the
building function directly to its landscape setting.
The project team has visited several buildings throughout the United Kingdom
to compare the Matthew Hay proposals with those elsewhere. Everyone concerned
is excited and confident that the new building can provide Aberdeen with
some of the best clinical skills and Anatomy facilities in the country.
This is vitally important to both attract and retain the highest quality
students and staff and thereby retain Aberdeen's long history of excellence
in health education.
End of PR re Matthew Hay building from Bennetts Associates, 30 Aug
2006
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£56m
Aberdeen
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£28m
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