Integrated Health Projects (IHP), the joint venture between VINCI Building and Sir Robert McAlpine, has completed construction of new healthcare facilities in Bournemouth.

The 25,000sq m, six-storey BEACH Building, which contains maternity, children’s, and emergency care services, alongside a new hospital main entrance, first broke ground in 2021.

The new maternity and neonatal unit will deliver over 4,400 babies a year, ensuring comprehensive care from pregnancy and birth through to postnatal support.

And the enhanced emergency department is larger than two pre-existing facilities combined and enables Royal Bournemouth Hospital to become the major emergency hospital for Dorset.

Building work took place with minimal disruption to the Royal Bournemouth site, which remained operational and delivering healthcare services throughout.

The development forms part of the £500m transformation of University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust’s hospitals, including investment to develop Poole Hospital as the major planned care hospital and ambitious plans for Christchurch Hospital.

Bruce Preston, project director at IHP, said: “The success of the project is testament to our team, which delivered this programme of work on a live hospital site with minimal disruption to the trust’s operations.

“These facilities will deliver great benefit for the people of Dorset, both now and in the years to come.”

Jason Griffiths, regional director at IHP, added: “We’re proud to have delivered this amazing large-scale 1,000 room development on time and to budget.

“The project navigated the challenging events of COVID, Brexit, and the hyperinflation, as well as one of the key supply chain partners going into liquidation.”