meet. connect. do business. education building forum Scotland & healthcare buildings forum, Scotland 19 & 20 March 2026 Cameron House, Loch Lomond directory 2026
meet. connect. do business. On behalf of Stable Events, I am delighted to welcome you to the healthcare buildings forum Scotland 2026 (hbf), and the education building forum Scotland 2026 (ebf), which brings together professionals from across the healthcare and education built environment sectors. This combined forum brings together architects, contractors, suppliers and local authorities, as well as university estates managers, hub representatives and Scottish Government stakeholders. It provides a platform for those responsible for planning, designing, delivering and managing some of the most important public sector buildings in Scotland. This directory serves as a guide to the organisations attending, helping you identify new contacts and opportunities for collaboration throughout the event. Across the UK, the healthcare estate is entering a period of significant change. Much of the existing infrastructure is ageing, creating a major opportunity to modernise facilities through renewal, retrofit and strategic investment. At the same time, there is a growing focus on strengthening resilience across healthcare environments, ensuring buildings are adaptable, sustainable and capable of supporting evolving models of care. These challenges are also driving innovation across design, construction and technology, as the sector seeks practical solutions that improve performance while making the most of existing assets. Alongside this, ebf will explore the issues shaping Scotland’s education estate. With continued investment in schools, colleges and universities, there is a strong emphasis on delivering environments that support modern learning, community use and long-term sustainability. Delegates will hear from those delivering real projects and leading new thinking across design, procurement and delivery. By bringing together professionals from both healthcare and education sectors, the forum encourages the exchange of ideas and shared learning across two areas of the public estate that face similar challenges around ageing buildings, sustainability, funding and long term resilience. Throughout the day there will be opportunities to hear from leading voices across the sector, explore innovative projects and connect with organisations helping to shape the future of the built environment. Dedicated networking sessions will allow delegates to exchange ideas, build relationships and develop lasting partnerships. Welcome once again, and we hope this directory proves to be a valuable resource both during and beyond the event. Toby Filby, managing director of Stable Events and Stable Media.
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The education building forum Scotland & healthcare buildings forum Scotland agenda Wednesday 18th March 2026 19:30 – 21:30 Project Delegate drinks reception. Thursday 19th March 2026 08:00 – 09:00 Delegate Registration desk opens 09:00 – 10:30 Welcome & First Speaker session 10:30 – 11:40 Meeting sessions 11:40 – 11:50 Coffee break 11:50 – 13:00 Meeting sessions 13:00 – 14:00 Lunch 14:00 – 15:10 Meeting sessions 15:10 – 16:15 Second Speaker session 16:15 – 16:25 Coffee break 16:25 – 17:45 Meeting sessions 17:45 – 19:45 Free time 19:45 Gala Dinner. Friday 20th March 2026 07:30 – 09:00 Breakfast 08:45 – 09:15 Help desk opens 09:15 – 10:50 Meeting sessions 10:50 – 11:05 Coffee break 11:05 – 12:40 Meeting sessions 12:45 Event concludes – Lunch is available from 12:30.
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Speaker Session – ebf Scotland: Chair Andrew Pring, Editor, education design & build magazine and higher education estates magazine BIOGRAPHY: Andrew Pring is the editor of Stable Media’s market-leading education titles, education design & build and higher education estates. An experienced B2B editor, Andrew has written about construction issues for many years and is a former editor of the construction title Contract Journal. He has also edited magazines in the leisure and financial sectors, as well as written extensively on business issues. Additionally, he has worked with the New London Architecture group on reports covering tall buildings and infrastructure and has a keen interest in the built environment.
stipulated clear funding criteria for ongoing energy efficiency in schools. So, taking time to reflect on how we got to this point, and how we can expand our delivery of highly efficient Passivhaus schools is essential. To help, I have summarised some of the most important things when working on a Passivhaus school or community building you need to get from concept to completion: An ambitious client: Passivhaus is not the cheapest or the fastest way to build a new school, but it doesn’t aim to be. It delivers exceptional levels of interior comfort, health, wellbeing, longer-term affordability, resilience, and durability. Having a client and end user who understand this crucial first step will ensure the process has a higher rate of success. Architects and contractors can help a client be ambitious by showing the standard is possible with commitment, offering a clear aligned vision for a building’s lifetime, and educating on possible reasonable changes to ensure better sustainability outcomes or benefits for end users. A tight-knit team: Lots of information sharing, coordination and complex processes are needed to ensure a prospective Passivhaus design is built to specification and delivers the desired results. Clear collaboration and buy-in across the whole build and design team, including subcontractors and stakeholders, can ensure this happens. It might surprise some that this even drilled down into researching exactly what equipment teachers often plug-in during classes and for how long, in order to estimate predicted energy use. Explaining why you need this information also helps ensure you get the right details. Be a stickler for detail: The Passivhaus standard is attractive to clients because it ensures a building’s actual energy use is, on average, extremely close to the amount predicted by models. For example, in contrast, the Passivhaus Trust estimate that a nonPassivhaus new home can have a heating demand of 60% more than forecast using SAP modelling. To avoid that and ensure a high efficiency standard in schools, the design team need to be across everything, from the building form and orientation, to spaces, materials, equipment and end uses. That’s especially true in Scotland, where the outcomes implemented by Scottish Futures Trust (as part of the Scottish Government’s Learning Estate Investment Programme funding) stipulates a gold standard of 67kWh/m2/yr for a school’s overall energy use. This must be met in order to receive full funding over the 25 years following completion. y the site g being constrained in the and overshadowed by the able area a the new pavilion adheres existing school, standards and is soon to to Passivhaus s receive certification. The CLT structure creates an inviting atmosphere and not only ensures thermal comfort by minimising cold bridging but also contributes to carbon storage and environmental preservation, with every cubic metre of CLT sequestering one tonne of CO2. Furthermore, this material's recyclability and biodegradability underline the team’s dedication to eco-conscious practices. To compensate for the lack of winter solar gain, the design centres on a fabric-first approach, addressing air tightness and thermal performance - including triple glazing. Achieving an ambitious air tightness rating of 0.28, the building envelope minimises openings and cold bridging. An integrated mechanical strategy, encompassing MVHR and air source heat pumps, further accentuates the team’s aim to adhere to sustainable practices. The new facility delivers heating and energy consumption efficiencies without compromising on n large windows with extensive use of ro improved landscape playground encourag It is these compon multi-functional spac wider benefits for the long-term higher quali play and develop. Passivhaus delivers a more projects like the fa Primary School reach co serve as important exem Scotland and the rest of Ultimately, if you put the expertise, intricacy, and wo a moment, it’s clear what it to make Passivhaus schools is commitment. As architects, it’s our role commitment is not only possi essential if we are to deliver t energy demand reduction need achieve net zero across the ed built environment. www.holmesmiller.com educationdab.co.uk 1 TAB) designed by Feilden Clegg ns garden becomes r the community ty, thanks to inspiring design and an enlightened ler spaces were needed to do work with small groups. Without space formally available for lation spaces had been cleverly ted and decorated to create r such intervention, but they vacy or the right acoustics. clear was that the school was making the best use of every support its children in g circumstances. milar way, great effort had been invested in the playground, which benefitted from many mature trees, a generous area, and spaces for active play, quieter activity and forest school learning. The outside spaces embodied the spirit of the school and when the team learned that the playground was often the only safe outdoor space that the children had access to – as most of the children lived in the high-rise flats around the site – the particular importance of the playground to this brief was clear. Despite the buildings’ stark failings, the school had a tangibly vibrant character, positive culture and strong sense of community service. It was these qualities that the project team sought to provide a new setting for, so that the school would continue to flourish. Galiema Amien-Cloete, Executive Headteacher of Rotherhithe Primary, who was a member of Southwark Council’s stakeholder team commented that “the building is separate to the culture and the diversity, but the building is vital in bringing everybody together”. Many schools are placed in the centre of their sites and have the resulting playground wrapping around them, with the landscape design treated as being secondary to the building. These spaces can lack definition, positive connection to indoors or visual and acoustic protection from the street. Urban school playgrounds are often sized well below the DfE recommended areas, and, regrettably, acceptance of this has become commonplace. At Rotherhithe, recognising that landscape was so important – in its extent, visual enjoyment and amenity, the design team adopted a ndscape-first strategy and the la ng concept for the school was “a emergi a garden”. school in a g to maintain operation of the The need t ol, while its replacement was existing schoo meant the work had to be constructed, m te area was limited. Coupled phased and sit e to address the recessive with the desire e existing buildings, was an nature of the to create a truly civic piece of aspiration to ure that spoke of education’s architectur tance in the community. The impor combination of phasing, maximising andscape area, and retaining as many trees l sible (in the end 47), dictated a as pos y building, with a clear diagram two-storey and key stage 1 on the ground of nursery an stage 2 upstairs. floor, and key hool buildings opened in The new sch ition of the completed 2022. The posit site gives Rotherhithe school on the esh identity – it creates a Primary a fres ark facing Southwark Park, civic landmar arge main hall volume proudly with the lar ight up to the pavement edge. pulled righ This prevents precious area from being wasted to peripheral (potentially ble) landscape and allows the useful unusable) nd to be maximised. area behind se to its connection with In respons asmine Ali, Deputy Leader of community, Ja ouncil, describes the scheme Southwark Co abled this successful school as having “enab proved educational facilities to provide imp community. This project for the local c Council’s investment in reflects the C through our £200m investment education th ols. Rotherhithe school is a in schools beautiful building that lifts the heads and aspirations of its teachers, school staff pils. It is used by and at the heart and pupil mmunity providing a positive and of the comm environment, improving the welcoming en he school and its presence function of th ” on the street.” l within a garden”, a As “a school stimulating and protected outd environment for the children ha created, with direct access from ground floor classroom. Beyond principal public elements, two sto classrooms wrap around the site an intimate scale to a three-sided courtyard, inspired by magnificent sycamore. Sadly, this tree suffered construction and had to be replaced it will grow with the school and its st colour inspired the red-oxide powder coating on the window frames. The courtyard contains a small amphithea and is overlooked by a playful range of windows, low enough for the youngest children to enjoy the landscape, and som set flush with the brickwork to create deep seats. The courtyard affords views right through the site and a constant sense of connection with nature and with others. Galiema Amien-Cloete said: “I'm a firm believer in outdoor learning and it definitely has a very important place in education. Sometimes this can be overlooked…but this building was designed around the premise: it's a school within a garden.” The council supported invention with areas of the brief that were specific to the school’s needs, where a different type of procurement might have been more rigid. The result is the carving out of intimate spaces for small group learning to suit different needs, under stairs and between classrooms, their quality enhanced with carefully detailed timber, referencing the area’s Scandinavian history, and the local historic timber trade. Like many urban schools, Rotherhithe Primary is also used extensively out-ofhours. A generous “welcome space”, directly off the entrance can be secured off to allow the school to become a society building and a meeting place for the community. The result is a school which recognises its community’s history, enhances the environment, builds children’s confidence, and embodies the vitality of its predecessor buildings. www.fcbstudios.com educationdab.co.uk 11 Education design & build (edb) and its sister title, higher education estates (hee) are magazines published together every three months. They are read by specifiers across the whole range of clients, architects, contractors and supply chain specialists who operate across the UK’s education sector. ! " #$ To receive FREE and regular copies of edb & hee go to www.educationdab.co.uk and register for your personal copy. For additional information on how you can target the unique circulation of edb & hee, please call Sales on: 020 8288 1080 or email info@stable-media.co.uk J/Feb 2024 • £8 S/Oct 2023 Learning lessons - the design t also in this issue: ebf Scotland preview Join us at Stable Event’s education building forum on 25-26 April Façades Brick gives Glasgow Primary School a striking façade Outdoors Using canopies to optimise play areas in a Cambridge school also in this issue - hee magazine: Design solutions: State-of-the-art teaching and research facilities for more than 3,000 students Technology: How sensors, software and the Internet of Things can drive sustainability on campus Flooring solutions: University College London (UCL) embraces sustainable flooring Passivhaus comes to Dundee Insights from the architect behind an ambitious project uniting two Scottish schools 14/02/2024 09:49 Page 1 The best way to find out what’s going on in school, college and university construction M/Apr 2024 • £8 S/Oct 2023 Learning lessons - the design t also in this issue: ebf Scotland – Join us Stable Event’s education building forum in Scotland on 25-26 April Interiors Modular classrooms support students following the pandemic Exteriors New life for a playground and an eco classroom creates indoor spaces also in this issue - hee magazine: WFH’s impact on academia: Arcadis looks at how hybrid working is transforming university campus design Design Solutions: A look at the new Arts Faculty at the University of Warwick Acoustics: Somerville College, Oxford has its acoustic performance significantly upgraded The greening of an inner-city school Rotherhithe Primary has a new identity, thanks to inspiring design by Feilden Clegg Bradley and an enlightened local authority client 26/03/2024 17:21 Page 1 M/June 2023 • £8 also in this issue: CIF submissions Suppliers can help prepare your refurb submission for the DfE Library makeover A new library in five working days – this project shows, it can be done Ventilation Technical college extension gets both hybrid and natural ventilation also in this issue - hee magazine: Energy saving at its best: University enjoys the benefits of their investment in a heating control system Smart lighting: How to create an interoperable environment that delivers truly smart lighting Security for all, at all times: Solving the challenges of lone working via a new app Heriot-Watt plants deeper roots in Dubai Success in UAE leads the Edinburgh university to build a dazzling new campus J/Aug 2023 • £8 also in this issue: Flooring solutions How to deliver excellent flooring solutions with great style Lighting tips Advice on better light in cafeterias, classrooms, labs and libraries Ventilation Suggestions on how to decide what ventilation system to select also in this issue - hee magazine: The sticky campus: Designing post-Covid campuses that attract and retain students and staff Security & access controls: Here’s how one university installed a compliant access control solution Roofing: Imperial College London has a new roof covering for the Wolfson Education Centre Exemplar building triples size of Belfast campus Ulster University has expanded its Belfast campus to accommodate over 15,000 students and staff S/Oct 2023 • £8 also in this issue: ebf preview Top speakers and networking of the best kind Fit-outs The inside track on how to make fit-outs go smoothly Roofing Slate achieves the right look at Grade II listed Newport school also in this issue - hee magazine: Design solutions: Fostering community across a thriving campus Flooring: Contemporary designs in student accommodation Tiling: How to install porcelain wall and floor tiles in a modern atrium and wash rooms Learning lessons - the design team revisits its work A post-occupation assessment of how well Norwich’s Duke Street Riverside performs N/Dec 2023 • £8 also in this issue: Inclusive educational settings A new guide shows how to support conditions like ADHD and autism Energy efficiency Delivering the most efficient solution for hot water generation Getting to net zero Focusing on building services will help schools reach net zero quicker also in this issue - hee magazine: Cavity barriers: Innovative 900-room student accommodation development at UWE How design can drive sustainability: A glass supplier explains how campuses can not only look good but do good LED luminaires: Lucy Cavendish College is dedicated to reducing its carbon emissions UCL goes for gold in London's Olympic Park Marshgate, UCL’s largest single building, offers a collaborative and cross-disciplinary educational environment edb-hee-A4-advert.indd 1 30/04/2025 15:21
Scott Adams, Associate, Turner & Townsend Title: “Quality First: transforming education through collaboration.” SYNOPSIS: Quality First: Transforming Education Through Collaboration highlights how a relentless focus on quality, supported by insights from the GIRI audit, can reshape outcomes across educational projects. By defining the brief early, teams establish clarity, shared purpose and a strong foundation for success. Effective communication and genuine collaboration ensure that challenges are surfaced early and resolved collectively. Setting clear expectations helps align roles, responsibilities and standards. Ultimately, securing buyin to a unified vision creates ownership, drives consistency and empowers all partners to deliver highquality, meaningful results. This collaborative approach ensures educational transformation is purposeful, coherent and sustainable. BIOGRAPHY: Scott Adams is an experienced Project Manager and Associate at Turner & Townsend, where he has built a strong track record in delivering complex projects across Scotland since joining the business in 2017. Beginning his career as a Civil Engineer, both onsite and as a design consultant, Scott brings a holistic understanding of project delivery from early design through to construction and operation. His technical grounding enables him to clearly visualise project development, communicate effectively with stakeholders, and proactively identify risks, opportunities and challenges throughout the project lifecycle. Scott has successfully led major publicsector and infrastructure programmes, including the awardwinning Inverurie Community Campus, recognised as Scotland’s 2021 Development of the Year (Public Buildings). He plays an active role in advancing Net Zero initiatives, contributing to industry collaboration through the Energy Infrastructure Forum and BEST/SFT lowcarbon construction workshops. His experience spans education, healthcare, city masterplanning and remote/rural delivery, with notable roles in NHS Highland’s Community Hospital Bundle, Aberdeen City Vision PMO and longstanding support to hub North Scotland. More recently Scott has continued to support hub North Scotland with delivery of their North Schools Programme (a collaborative of 7 school projects across 5 local authorities) and is involved with the Highland Investment Plan where he is supporting on delivery where Turner & Townsend are actively supporting with delivery of POD projects across the region.
Claire Mantle, Director – Head of Education, Corstorphine & Wright Title: “Designing Out Barriers: Creating Calm, Inclusive Learning Environments.” SYNOPSIS: This presentation argues that the design decisions we make today can have an immediate and lasting impact on inclusion, independence and confidence across the whole school community. Inclusion isn’t a programme. It’s a design decision. We explore how design influences a child’s wider development and future wellbeing by creating healthy, happy people, not just functional environments. Case studies demonstrate how calm, clarity and choice can reduce anxiety and remove barriers, creating inclusive environments that work better for students, staff and families alike. Focusing on practical, low-cost interventions rather than major overhauls, the session highlights strategies for retrofit ideas for existing estates, such as provision, clear circulation, intuitive wayfinding, sensory-aware materials, and calm spaces including quiet rooms and outdoor learning areas. BIOGRAPHY: Claire leads C&W’s national Education Strategy, working alongside a dedicated team of architects to shape inspiring, inclusive learning environments. She designs healthy, welcoming schools through meaningful stakeholder engagement, benchmarking, technical design expertise and strategic space planning. With over 20 years’ experience delivering awardwinning education projects, Claire collaborates closely with school leadership teams, consultants and contractors to achieve high-quality outcomes on budget. Her approach places students at the heart of the design process, creating learner-centred environments that respond to contemporary pedagogies and support wellbeing through evidence-based design and post-occupancy evaluation.
Nicola Hamill, Head of Landscape Architecture, Pick Everard Title: “An Integrated and Collaborative approach to Environmental Design.” SYNOPSIS: This session will explore how an integrated and collaborative approach to environmental design can deliver better education environments. Drawing on nearly three decades of experience, Nicola Hamill will share insights into emerging delivery frameworks, evidence-based design, BNG and the growing role of environmental performance in shaping schools and learning spaces. BIOGRAPHY: Nicola Hamill brings nearly three decades of experience in the public realm to her role at Pick Everard, enhancing the team's capabilities and innovation. She specialises in urban design, regeneration and creating spaces for people. Nicola's daily responsibilities involve mentoring, participating in interdisciplinary discussions, and conducting design reviews across the firm's locations in London and Leicester. In her leadership role, Nicola focuses on maximising her team's individual skills and strengths, aligning them with the company’s objectives to foster growth and achieve targets. Her expertise is crucial in responding to emerging needs, particularly in light of new biodiversity net gain legislation. She plays a key role in advancing Pick Everard's environmental services discipline, driving the ethos of collaborative excellence for clients and communities. Nicola is dedicated to delivering solutions that not only meet but exceed client expectations, establishing trust through her commitment to best practices and sound, honest advice.
Steve Moizer, Training and Development Officer, Learning through Landscapes Title: “The Value and Benefit of School Grounds in Supporting Education.” SYNOPSIS: Scotland’s school grounds collectively cover an area the size of Dundee. These are the only spaces where every child should have guaranteed daily access to outdoor learning, play and sport, surrounded by nature and protected from our changing climate, but this is not always the case. Referring to the outcome of the recent Scottish School Grounds survey, we’ll explore the role school grounds play in supporting education and why involving children and young people in the design, development and use of these outdoor spaces is so important in fostering agency, connection and environmental stewardship. BIOGRAPHY: Following an earlier career focussing on education, community capacity building and environmental advocacy, I have worked for Learning through Landscapes for over fifteen years. My role as a Training and Development Officer involves the development and delivery of a variety of projects with Early Years settings, Primary Schools and High Schools focussing on maximising the potential of the school grounds for cross curricular outdoor learning and play. As a Qualifications Scotland approved centre, I am also involved with the development and delivery of a broad range of training courses for teaching and support staff, including supporting schools with developing quality climate change education through the focus of Learning for Sustainability.
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Speaker Session – hbf Scotland: Chair Hannah Lewis-Jones, Client & Partnership Lead, Mott MacDonald BIOGRAPHY: Hannah LewisJones is a recognised leader in shaping highquality, peoplecentred healthcare environments across the UK. With a career grounded in commercial insight, strategic clarity and a commitment to genuine collaboration, Hannah brings a distinctive blend of technical expertise and inclusive leadership. Throughout her career, Hannah has played a pivotal role in guiding clients through complex health-sector challenges, from masterplanning and strategic financial development to digital transformation and netzero pathways. She is known for building trusted relationships, aligning diverse teams around shared goals, and ensuring that good ideas translate into meaningful outcomes for patients, staff and communities. A passionate advocate for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, Hannah serves as the Mott MacDonald Buildings EDI Deputy Champion and is actively involved in industry networks including Women in Property & Women in the Healthcare Built Environment. She is also committed to mentoring emerging professionals and supporting initiatives that enable broader participation across the builtenvironment sector. Beyond her professional work, Hannah is a new cyclist taking on the Bristol to Bordeaux challenge in July raising funds for PROPS Bristol and can otherwise be found with her rescue dogs or at a local racecourse!
Alan Morrison, Deputy Director of Health Infrastructure and Sustainability, Scottish Government Title: “Capital Investment in Scotland’s Health Estate: An Update on Priorities and Challenges.” SYNOPSIS: This session will provide an update on Scotland’s health infrastructure landscape and the evolving priorities for the health and social care estate. It will offer perspectives on current challenges, emerging opportunities, and the role of infrastructure in supporting the delivery of healthcare services across Scotland. The presentation will also reflect on the wider context shaping future investment and development within the health estate. BIOGRAPHY: Alan Morrison currently serves as the Deputy Director of Health Infrastructure and Sustainability at Scottish Government, a role focused on advancing resilient, efficient, and environmentally responsible healthcare systems. Alan’s main focus involves developing a whole system asset management and investment plans, which included two phases. The first phase focussed on business continuity and better maintenance of the existing estate, while the second phase was to develop a more ambitious programme of investment in new health and social care facilities.
Karen Hedge, Deputy CEO, Scottish Care Title: “The future is person led. Building better lives.” SYNOPSIS: What if our measures of success weren’t square metres, unit sizes or capital costs, but belonging, continuity and capability? In this provocative keynote, Scottish Care’s Deputy CEO Karen Hedge reframes healthcare infrastructure as a means to uphold rights, relationships and independence. She will deliver an overview of the opportunities in the social care sector and present the FAIR toolkit featuring personled design tests founded in human rights. This is a session for commissioners, developers, architects, estates leads and operators who are looking to move from compliance to meaning. BIOGRAPHY: Karen is a dedicated social care ambassador whose journey began as a paid carer during university. Motivated to improve the sector, she advocates for seamless person-led care and support across the life course, and believes true impact is measured by people’s experiences. Karen has held roles across government, Director at the Prince of Wales Foundation, and now serves as DCEO of Scottish Care, focusing on sector sustainability, human rights, ethical commissioning, fair work, digital and innovation. She co-chairs the only national multi-disciplinary health and social care group driving integration improvements locally, and is part of IMPACT’s leadership team, bridging the evidence implementation gap. Outside work, Karen is a UWS Court member, Coastguard Rescue Officer, and as an Ayrshire lass, can be found enjoying beach time with her family. FRSA MIOD.
Gillian Bratt-McManus, Healthcare Planner, Buchan + Associates Ltd Title: “Designing the Mindset, Not Just the Infrastructure.” SYNOPSIS: This presentation explores the mindset shift required to plan, prioritise and invest in Scotland’s healthcare estate within a context of constrained capital, national sustainability goals and new SCIM guidance. It highlights the move toward optimisation, refurbishment and reuse, the importance of aligning infrastructure, digital transformation and service redesign, and the need to plan at the right scale across Scotland East and West. The session also raises emerging challenges around applying existing technical and netzero standards to legacy estate, encouraging a systemwide discussion on how Scotland can deliver resilient, proportionate and futurefocused healthcare infrastructure. BIOGRAPHY: Gill BrattMcManus is an experienced healthcare planner and management consultant whose career spans more than two decades of transformation, strategy and operational improvement across healthcare, manufacturing and public services. A Chartered Engineer with an MEng in Product Design Engineering, she began her career in European manufacturing before moving into healthcare consultancy, bringing with her a strong grounding in Lean methodology, quality improvement and systems thinking. As part of Buchan + Associates, Gill works with NHS Boards and national bodies to design futureready service models, develop evidencebased clinical output specifications and support capital investment decisionmaking. Her portfolio includes major strategic programmes across Scotland, such as the development of the revised Strategic Assessment framework for Scottish Government and largescale redesign initiatives in acute, primary and community care. She is recognised for her ability to guide multidisciplinary clinical and operational teams through complex planning challenges, facilitating collaborative design aligned to realworld workflow, demand and operational constraints. Gillian brings a balanced blend of technical planning expertise, datadriven analysis and coaching-led facilitation and a strong track record of delivering measurable performance gains for clients.
Lianne Knotts, Director, Medical Architecture Title: “Breathing new life into an ageing hospital estate with quality and consistency.” SYNOPSIS: The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (NuTH) was facing a similar challenge to many NHS Boards. Its existing ageing building stock was operating with inefficiencies, impacting patient and staff experience. Medical Architecture assisted NuTH in forming a vision for their estate, moving away from ad-hoc and opportunistic development, creating a guided framework for investment. A vital element was a comprehensive internal improvement programme and interior design standard to ensure a consistent quality of outcome that could be easily replicated. Particular attention was given to design for patients with dementia and frailty, as well as technical standards and guidance compliance, working within the constraints of existing structure. BIOGRAPHY: Lianne is a Director in Medical Architecture’s Newcastle studio where she jointly manages the local team. She is also a senior chartered architect with 19 years’ experience solely in healthcare design, with experience across a wide range of health typologies. Lianne is a Trustee for the Design in Mental Health Network, working to promote better design of mental healthcare environments, to improve outcomes. Lianne has substantial knowledge of the health sector and working on NHS projects in areas of stakeholder engagement, health planning, feasibility studies, design and construction. Her strength in the user-consultation process has led Lianne to work collaboratively with local architect and clinical teams worldwide, with current projects in Canada. Lianne’s project portfolio has received awards from RIBA, Building Better Healthcare, Design in Mental Health, and the International Academy for Design & Health. Lianne is a former Professional Examiner for RIBA Part III at Newcastle University and currently volunteers as a Careers Enterprise Advisor with North East Ambition to promote pathways for young people into architecture and the construction industry. As a female senior leader, Lianne is also a mentor on this year’s Women in Architecture Mentoring Programme, using her experience to offer support to women at earlier stages in their architectural career.
David Morrison, Associate, Keppie Design & Heather Cameron, Senior Programme Manager, NHS Highland Title: “Lochaber Hospital – NHS Highland’s vision for a new build rural general hospital in the outdoor capital of the UK.” SYNOPSIS: The Lochaber Hospital Project is NHS Highland’s positive vision for a new build rural general hospital to replace the existing Belford Hospital in Fort William which is no longer fit for purpose. This presentation will discuss the development of a design for a welcoming, sustainable, and resilient healthcare facility that: ⁃ Enhances patient experience and wellbeing ⁃ Supports efficient and adaptable clinical delivery ⁃ Reflects the unique landscape and identity of Lochaber ⁃ Embeds low-carbon and sustainable design principles BIOGRAPHY: David is an Associate in Keppie Design’s Glasgow office. He is a chartered architect with 17 years’ experience in healthcare design. His involvement in projects undertaken in the office has included a series of health and well-being projects in the UK and overseas, at various stages from early design to delivery. David has a strong knowledge of the health sector and working on NHS projects in areas of stakeholder engagement, planning, feasibility studies, design and construction. He has a keen interest in sustainable design, and the development of innovative, flexible design solutions. BIOGRAPHY: Heather has worked in NHS Highland’s capital project team for over 15years. Having trained as an architect, she has moved from in-house design and delivery of smaller capital schemes to having more recently led the NHS Highland team through the delivery of a £45million bundle comprising the Badenoch & Strathspey Community Hospital in Aviemore and Broadford Hospital on Skye. Since 2022 she has been the NHS Highland lead for the planned new Lochaber Hospital which will be the largest project ever delivered by NHS Highland, and the first which is required to address Scottish Government’s net zero policies. David Morrison Heather Cameron
Martin Rooney, Regional Director, Archus Title: “Delivering Scotland’s new generation of community health centres: learning from the past and preparing for the next phase of public private partnership delivery.” SYNOPSIS: Scotland is entering a new phase of investment in primary and community healthcare infrastructure, with emerging PPP-style delivery models creating an opportunity to learn from past programmes. This presentation explores lessons from various PPP schemes, highlighting approaches to programming, specifications and achieving transformation. It also reflects on insights from England’s LIFT programme and Scotland’s own HUB model, where standardisation improved delivery and governance. Bringing these lessons together, the session outlines how evidence-based design, robust demand modelling and flexible local adaptation can shape a resilient, predictable and impactful community health infrastructure pipeline for Scotland. BIOGRAPHY: Martin Rooney is a recognised leader in health service transformation, strategic estate planning, and major healthcare infrastructure delivery. With more than 20 years’ experience he has played a pivotal role in shaping some of the UK’s most significant national programmes in recent years, including the formation of the NHS Strategic Estate Planning function following the Naylor Review, the introduction of the Health Infrastructure Plan, and the England’s New Hospital Programme. As Regional Director at Archus, Martin leads multidisciplinary teams to deliver complex clinical, estate and infrastructure strategies for NHS organisations. He has overseen programmes with capital values exceeding £30bn, providing expert guidance on business cases, programme formation, governance, and stakeholder engagement. His work spans acute, community and system-wide transformation, including the Airedale New Hospital Programme, Irish Government capital and estates strategy to 2050, and national ICB infrastructure strategies. Martin brings deep expertise in Public-Private Partnerships, Modern Methods of Construction, and delivery vehicles that enable sustainable, future-ready healthcare estates. Known for his collaborative style and systems-level insight, he helps organisations turn complex challenges into clear, deliverable pathways for change.
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Sector: Healthcare Aitken Turnbull are an established award winning architectural practice based in the south of Scotland, Edinburgh and Manchester. We have considerable experience in a wide range of projects types with commissions throughout the United Kingdom and are well resourced in all aspects. Our aim is to provide innovative, efficient design solutions whilst respecting the traditional values of a professional service with close client consultation and a strong emphasis on the management of a project. OUR STORY– Formed in 1959 on the amalgamation of two former companies, we have a traceable past to 1887. Today, with a proficient team of 20 people, we have been involved in projects across Scotland and the UK with considerable experience in Bespoke Housing, Health, Public and Masterplanning. WE BELIEVE IN– At Aitken Turnbull we believe in the traditional values of a professional service with close client consultation and a strong emphasis on the management of a project, linked to innovative design solutions. We pride ourselves in quality of design and fitness for purpose. We believe that successful projects are the result of a fruitful partnership between the Client and the Architect, and we work hard to play our part in the relationship. Project Outline Health & Wellbeing Centre - Antrim Area Hospital - £3.2M Patient Garden - Perth Infimary Type of Buildings General Hospitals/Emergency Centres, Community Hospitals, Tertiary Hospitals/Private Hospitals, Health Centres/Walk-in Centres/Clinics, University/Laboratory/Research Facilities, Mental Health Hospitals, Nursing and Care homes/Hospices. Aitken Turnbull Architects Alasdair Rankin - Managing Director 5 Castle Terrace, Edinburgh EH1 2DP T: 01312 972350 E: arankin@aitken-turnbull.co.uk W: www.arankin@aitken-turnbull.co.uk project delegates Follow up: Meeting Tel Email Send Info When: Project: Contact:
Sector: Healthcare We provide a full range of architectural and design services, offering net zero carbon designs on all projects from large-scale masterplanning through to individual building projects. Our clients include local authorities, housing associations, health boards, community and voluntary groups, as well as individuals and developers. As a practice, we are design driven and client focused. The common aim of all our work is to derive the best possible design solution for our clients. Specialities: Net zero carbon architecture – housing to community buildings, masterplanning, development and options appraisal, research into and delivery of sustainable design, and listed and historic buildings – renovation and reuse. Project Outline Residential Care Facility in Glasgow - B Listed - £500K 60 Bed Residential Care Facility in Perth for individuals with complex needs - £23.5M Type of Buildings Health Centres/Walk-in Centres/Clinics & Nursing and Care homes/Hospices. Anderson Bell Christie Architects Alasdair Blair - Senior Architect Caroline Dearden - Director 382 Great Western Road, Glasgow G4 9HT T: 01413 391515 E: alasdairblair@andersonbellchristie.com E: carolinedearden@andersonbellchristie.com W: www.andersonbellchristie.com Alasdair Blair Caroline Dearden project delegates Follow up: Meeting Tel Email Send Info When: Project: Contact:
Sector: Healthcare Archus is a leading healthcare infrastructure specialist dedicated to transforming health and care systems through strategic, technical and data-driven consultancy. Our expertise spans strategic advisory, technical guidance, data and analytics, and programme and project management, enabling the delivery of major capital programmes, national guidance and complex system transformation. Working across the UK, Canada and internationally, we combine global insight with local delivery to create sustainable, patient-centred solutions. As a certified B-Corporation, Archus is purpose-driven and impactled, embedding innovation, equity and community need into every project to help health systems evolve with confidence. Archus Martin Rooney - Regional Director - North Leeming Building, Ludgate Hill LS2 7HZ E: m.rooney@archus.uk.com W: www.archus.uk.com project delegates Follow up: Meeting Tel Email Send Info When: Project: Contact:
Sector: Education Baker Hicks Limited (BakerHicks) is a design and engineering company that specialises in complex infrastructure, process and built environments across the full project life cycle. Its disciplines range from initial architecture to civil and structural, building services, specialist high voltage and process engineering services, programme management and CDM consultancy, using the latest innovations in Building Information Modelling (BIM) for the most efficient and cost-effective design. BakerHicks is part of Morgan Sindall Group plc, a leading UK construction and regeneration group with a revenue of c.£2.8 billion and which operates through six divisions of Construction & Infrastructure, Fit Out, Property Services, Partnership Housing, Urban Regeneration and Investments. Project Outline Alloa West Wellbeing Hub & School - £65M Fox Covert Primary School - £25M Granton Primary School - £25M Wester Hailes High School - £16M Balmuildy Primary School & Early Years Centre - £31.5M St Sophias Primary School - £3.6M Type of Buildings Early Years/Primary Schools, Secondary Schools, Colleges, Universities, Classrooms, Restaurants/ Bars/ Cafeterias, Sports/Gymnasiums and Student Accommodation. BakerHicks David Coulter - Associate Engineer 1st Floor, Trilogy One, 11 Woodhall, Eurocentral, Holytown, Motherwell ML1 4YT T: 01698 738 111 E: david.coulter@bakerhicks.com W: www.bakerhicks.com project delegates Follow up: Meeting Tel Email Send Info When: Project: Contact:
Sector: Education BMJ Architects are one of the UK’s longest established architectural firms having been in practice since 1911. We have extensive experience in designing award winning buildings and complex specialist facilities for Science, Research & Technology, Healthcare and Higher Education, and the Commercial Workplace. Our reputation over these years has been built on exceeding expectations and adding value to our clients in all aspects of our work. We are passionate about the potential of good design to enhance the everyday life of the people and communities they serve. Our Glasgow and London studios provide our private and public sector clients with a coherent approach to delivery from concept to handover. We offer professional services for Architecture, Brief Writing, Principal Designer, Conservation, Interior Design, Masterplanning, Project Management, Technical Advisor, Client Advisor and Peer Reviewer. We enjoy solving our client’s complex problems with innovative, high quality and sustainable architecture: To realise a client’s vision, we put stakeholders’ and users’ goals at the centre of our attention, asking key questions pertinent to understanding their needs, objectives and aspirations. Our process starts with listening and analysing; only then do we start designing. We believe that genuine innovation delivers simple solutions to complex challenges, creating opportunities and solving problems in ways that could not have been defined at the beginning of the process. For this reason, we avoid a “house style” but rather create a unique architectural approach for each project. Project Outline Darwin - New school of Biology University of Edinburgh - £50M Nexus - New project for University of Glasggow & CRUK - £62M ICE refurbishment feasibility - University of Glasgow Type of Buildings Universities, Communal Areas & Restaurants/Bars/Cafeterias. BMJ Architects Sonia Scott - Managing Director The Hub, 70 Pacific Quary, Glasgow G51 1DZ T: 01412 713 200 E: s.scott@bmjarchitects.co.uk W: www.bmjarchitects.co.uk project delegates Follow up: Meeting Tel Email Send Info When: Project: Contact:
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