Contract awarded to build Scotland’s biggest health centre

BAM Construction to work on £35 million hub for community in east end of GlasgowBAM Construction has won the contract to build Scotland’s biggest health centre in the east end of Glasgow.The 10,000 sq m, three-storey North East Health Centre on Salamanca Street in Parkhead will accommodate 900 clinical and support staff providing a range of community health and training services currently located at nine different sites. The hub will provide GP surgeries, a pharmacy, specialist children’s services, district nursing, health visitors, social work services , older people’s mental health services, learning disability services, sexual health services; addiction services, meeting rooms and a café.The project will be delivered for NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde and Glasgow Health & Social Care Partnership , and the £35 million design and build contract was awarded by hub West Scotland. It has been designed by Hoskins Architects. Construction work will begin next summer 2020 and is due for completion in early 2025.BAM Construction is also working in Glasgow on Stobhill Hospital’s dedicated mental health campus and Greenock Health Centre.