Galliford Try’s £21m Birmingham Uni fit-out: design and phasing notes for project teams
Reviewed by Tom Sullivan
First reported on The Construction Index
30 Second Briefing
Galliford Try has begun a £21m fit-out for the Birmingham Centre for Anatomy, Surgical & Clinical Skills, occupying two and a half floors within a new seven-storey, £210m building on the Birmingham Health Innovation Campus. The three-storey training centre will include mock hospital wards, a simulated operating theatre, consulting rooms, a mortuary and embalming room, plus immersive VR-based learning zones with simulated patients and home-care scenarios. Developed by the University of Birmingham with Bruntwood SciTech, the scheme is one phase of a six-phase masterplan delivering 657,000 sq ft of life sciences space over the next decade.
Technical Brief
- Fit-out scope is confined to two and a half levels within an already-completed seven-storey shell.
- Galliford Try is acting purely as main contractor for internal works, not base-build civils.
- Base building was delivered by John Sisk & Son and only opened in the previous year.
- BCASCS sits within the University of Birmingham’s College of Medicine and Health organisational structure.
- Development vehicle is a partnership between the University of Birmingham and Bruntwood SciTech as life-science landlord.
- Overall campus masterplan is split into six distinct delivery phases over roughly ten years.
- Full build-out will provide 657,000 sq ft of specialist life sciences accommodation across the Birmingham Health Innovation Campus.
Our Take
With a £210m base building already in place and Galliford Try now delivering a £21m specialist fit-out, the Birmingham Centre for Anatomy, Surgical & Clinical Skills sits at the higher-complexity end of UK university work in our infrastructure database, where coordination risk between shell-and-core and specialist clinical installations is a recurring issue.
Being one phase within a six-phase, decade-long Birmingham Health Innovation Campus masterplan gives Galliford Try a platform for repeat work, but also means early packages like this anatomy centre will effectively set the benchmark for programme controls and clinical stakeholder engagement across the remaining phases.
In our coverage of 741 Infrastructure stories, relatively few UK university health and life-science schemes in cities like Birmingham are embedded in such long (10-year) masterplans, which typically signals more stringent change-control and future-proofing requirements for MEP, digital infrastructure and clinical simulation spaces.
Prepared by collating external sources, AI-assisted tools, and Geomechanics.io’s proprietary mining database, then reviewed for technical accuracy & edited by our geotechnical team.
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