Henry Brothers’ Belper health centre: design and sustainability notes for project teams
Reviewed by Joe Ashwell
First reported on The Construction Index
30 Second Briefing
Henry Brothers has completed a £15.2m community health centre in Belper for Derbyshire Community Health Services NHS Foundation Trust, replacing the former Belper Clinic on the Babington Hospital site and consolidating all existing outpatient and clinical services. The Race Cottam Associates-designed hub provides 15 consulting rooms, six treatment rooms and a health education group room, supporting services from community nursing and phlebotomy to physiotherapy and podiatry. Built to BREEAM standards, it incorporates photovoltaic roof panels, certified timber and reuse of locally sourced recycled materials from demolished buildings.
Technical Brief
- £15.2m facility procured via the Pagabo Major Construction Works Framework, influencing contractor and supply-chain selection.
- Race Cottam Associates led architectural design, coordinating with clinical workflows and multi-service outpatient functions.
- Eastwood Consulting Engineers provided civil and structural design, managing brownfield redevelopment on the former Belper Clinic footprint.
- EP Consulting delivered mechanical and electrical design, integrating roof-mounted photovoltaic arrays into building services.
- Certified timber specified throughout, ensuring traceable sustainable sourcing for primary structural and fit-out elements.
- Locally sourced recycled materials from demolished buildings reduced imported aggregate demand and waste export.
- Capita acted as project manager, overseeing programme, cost control and multidisciplinary design coordination for Derbyshire Community Health Services.
Our Take
Henry Brothers’ £15.2m Belper health centre follows other public-sector builds in our database such as the £13.5m DVA MOT facility at Mallusk, signalling that the contractor is consolidating a niche in mid-scale, highly serviced public infrastructure across the UK and Ireland.
The use of the Pagabo Major Construction Works Framework at Belper, alongside Henry Brothers’ work via the Pagabo Refit and Refurbishment Framework at Lincoln County Hospital, suggests the firm is becoming a go‑to supplier within Pagabo’s health and public estate pipelines.
Within our 935 Infrastructure stories, Henry Brothers appears repeatedly in healthcare and defence work (e.g. RAF Lossiemouth and Lincoln County Hospital), so this Derbyshire scheme reinforces its positioning as a framework-driven contractor comfortable with complex, operationally critical estates rather than one-off commercial builds.
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