Building / block / estate
Cancer Centre at Guy’s Hospital
Address
Great Maze Pond, London SE1 9RT
Local Authority
Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust
Storeys / height
14 storeys; height in metres not found
Cladding
Owner / Landlord
NHS
Original design architect
Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners, with STANTEC as healthcare architect
Original consent ref/date
Opened September 2016; NEC contract, not PFI
Remediation ref/date
Remediation lead
Litigation
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Source / Evidence / Links
- (Master ACM building list) ACM CONFIRMED. Trust statement 09/08/2017: ‘we identified rain screen panels on the new Cancer Centre at Guy’s which we suspected included composite m
- (CM CONFIRMED. Trust statement 09/08/2017: ‘we identified rain screen panels on the new Cancer Centre at Guy’s which we suspected included composite materials’ and ‘The panels in question make up only 15% of the total surface area of the building and cover insulation on concrete columns and floor slabs’ (https://www.guysandstthomas.nhs.uk/news/fire-safety-guys-and-st-thomas).
- Southwark News 13/11/2022 is explicit: ‘The affected panels covered 15 per cent of the building and contained a kind of aluminium composite material (ACM) associated with the Grenfell fire’.
- Dezeen 26/09/2016 credits RSHP as architect ‘in collaboration with Stantec (healthcare specialists)’ (https://www.dezeen.com/2016/09/26/rogers-stirk-harbours-cancer-treatment-centre-london-guys-hospital/); corroborated by the trust’s own ‘Richard Rogers lays foundation stone for new Cancer Centre’. Main contractor Laing O’Rourke, 160m. Engineer Arup, who also acted as the trust’s post-Grenfell reviewing fire engineer. ACM removed from the north side 17/10/2022, west and south after - five years from discovery to completion
- NHS trust: Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust