Delivering the Next Generation of Hospitals.
When it comes to Building Services and Sustainability design for healthcare facilities, we offer a comprehensive solution, serving as both Full Design Roles Provider and Technical Advisor. Our expertise covers the full spectrum of healthcare facilities, from Primary and Secondary to Tertiary Care developments, including active involvement in supporting Health in the Community initiatives.
With over 200 MEP specialists across 9 UK offices and fully integrated building services, sustainability and BIM capability in-house – Wallace Whittle is one of the few UK engineering consultancies to have designed a major new acute hospital in recent years.
Our recent experience in delivering the circa 145,000m2 Monklands major new acute hospital in Lanarkshire, including KSAR compliance and complex healthcare systems, demonstrates our resource capability and knowledge led expertise to support contractors and NHS clients in delivering large-scale, high-risk healthcare projects and infrastructure with confidence.
“Wallace Whittle has been an instrumental partner in our journey towards a sustainable Net Zero hospital. During scheme development, their expertise and collaboration in MEP design, combined with a deep understanding of us as a client and the wider healthcare sector, makes them an invaluable asset. As we progress through the project from design to construction, I am confident having Wallace Whittle as a part of our team will help ensure our vision becomes a reality.”
Graeme Reid Project Director, Monklands Replacement Project
What sets us apart?
Recent major hospital delivery experience
We are one of the few consultancies with current experience delivering the engineering design of a major new acute hospital. That matters in a market where many teams are preparing to deliver £1bn-plus healthcare infrastructure.
A safe pair of hands in a high-stakes environment
Hospitals are among the most complex and heavily regulated building types. We help clients and contractors manage that complexity through robust MEP design, technical assurance and coordinated delivery support.
Integrated MEP and sustainability expertise
We combine building services engineering with practical sustainability strategy, helping delivery teams balance performance, resilience, compliance and NHS Net Zero requirements.
Support for repeatable and standardised delivery
As healthcare programmes move towards more repeatable models, we help develop building services approaches that improve consistency, reduce variation risk and strengthen delivery confidence across the estate.
From advisory to delivery
We act as both Full Design Provider and Technical Advisor, supporting projects from strategy and concept through to detailed design, coordination, commissioning and handover.
Through this approach we support programme-level consistency in healthcare building services delivery, helping deliver complex healthcare infrastructure with greater certainty.
Peterborough City Hospital
North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust
Balfour Hospital
NHS Orkney
What do we deliver?
Sustainable MEP strategy
- Building services engineering for healthcare environments
- Sustainability strategy, including operational energy and statutory compliance
- Low-carbon and renewable systems, including solar
- Net Zero Carbon pathways embedded into healthcare delivery
Critical infrastructure systems
- Resilient power distribution, including LV and MV
- Specialist electrical systems, including nurse call, access control and monitoring
- Fire alarm, detection and life safety systems
- Medical gases and pneumatic tube systems
Environmental and public health systems
- Ambient, external, specialist and emergency lighting
- Conventional, dirty and specialist ventilation
- Heating and hot/cold water services
- Above-ground drainage and supporting infrastructure
Delivery support and technical assurance
- Digital coordination and BIM-enabled workflows
- Commissioning support and operational readiness
- Technical advisory services for complex healthcare delivery
Who do we work with?
- NHS Trusts in England
- Local Health Boards in Wales
- Regional Health Boards in Scotland
- Special Health Boards in Scotland
- Health and Social Care Trusts in Northern Ireland
- Private Healthcare Providers
- Tier 1 contractors and primary supply chain partners
- Lead advisors and multidisciplinary design teams
- Developers and programme delivery organisations
Our approach is collaborative and delivery focused. We work alongside clients, contractors and design teams to ensure healthcare building services are coordinated, buildable, compliant and ready for operation.
Victoria Infirmary
Mid Cheshire Hospitals Foundation Trust
New Monklands Replacement Hospital
NHS Lanarkshire
Net Zero Healthcare in Practice
NHS Net Zero ambitions will only be achieved through practical building services decisions.
Wallace Whittle helps healthcare clients and delivery partners embed sustainability directly into MEP delivery, balancing operational performance, resilience and carbon reduction from the earliest project stages.
Our work includes:
- Low-carbon heating and electrification pathways
- Energy modelling and performance-led design
- Embodied carbon reduction through system selection
- Whole-life carbon thinking
- Practical support in meeting NHS Net Zero targets
We focus on making sustainability deliverable, not just aspirational.
Paul Cooper
Director, Healthcare Lead Scotland & Ireland
- Background of 25 years in the industry.
- Healthcare Specialist with a particular focus on electrical resilience.
- Experience in new build, refurbishment and backlog maintenance works.
- Extensive background with Key Stage Assurance Review (KSAR) process.
- Pursues innovative solutions where suitable including advancing Net Zero Carbon (NZC) all electrical designs in healthcare.
Jonathan Blackhurst
Associate Director, Healthcare Lead England
- Chartered Engineer with 30 years’ experience in the industry.
- Experience in health care projects ranging from minor refurbishments to new build hospitals.
- Passionate about providing energy efficient designs including Net Zero Carbon.
- Lead engineer on technical projects including clean rooms, decontamination suites and infrastructure projects.
- Advocate of innovative designs in health care to provide sustainable solutions.
Our Healthcare Projects & Trusts
The Golden Jubilee Hospital
NHS Golden Jubilee
Design Standard Experience
Healthcare projects demand rigorous compliance and a clear understanding of the standards that shape safe, resilient and operationally effective facilities.
Wallace Whittle brings experience across the key healthcare guidance, assurance processes and technical standards that support successful project delivery. This allows us to provide structured technical assurance, support compliance evidence, and help delivery teams reduce risk across design, construction and commissioning.
- Health Technical Memorandum (HTM, SHTM & NIHTM)
- Health Building Notes (SHBN/HBN)
- The Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015
- The Building Regulations and Technical Standards
- Health & Safety Guidance
- Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers (CIBSE) guides
- Net Zero Carbon Public Sector Buildings (NZCPSB) standard (The Standard)
- Relevant Access & Maintenance such as CIRIA and HTM 2023 Access and Accommodation for Engineering Services
- Achieving Excellence Design Evaluation (AEDET)
- ISO Standards (Quality Assurance)
- British, European and ISO Standards
- IET Wiring Regulations
- Water Regulations (Bylaws)
- Key Stage Assurance Review (KSAR)
- Advisory Committee on Dangerous Pathogens (ACDP Guidance)
- Building Services Research and Information Association (BSRIA) Guides and information
- National Joint Utilities Group (NJUG) for Utilities
- Review and discussion on COVID and any future pandemic on oxygen usage and ventilation requirements
- Healthcare Associated Infection System for Controlling Risk In the Built Environment (HAI-Scribe)
- Activity Database (ADB)
