London Institute for Healthcare Engineering
London Institute for Healthcare Engineering
The £32m London Institute for Healthcare Engineering (LIHE), part of the vision for St Thomas’ MedTech Hub, is a joint initiative led by King’s School of Biomedical Engineering & Imaging Sciences and Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust. It will involve the construction of a new building embedded within St Thomas’ campus which will bring together King’s research excellence, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust’s leading clinical practice and the medtech sector’s commercial innovation power and talent, engaging multinationals, SMEs and start-ups simultaneously. This close collaboration will ensure that research in healthcare engineering is translated rapidly into new products and technologies that will benefit patients sooner and more effectively.
We provided conservation and transport advice for this major new research facility on a sensitive hospital site. The site is flanked by the Grade II listed buildings of St Thomas’s Hospital and is within the Albert Embankment Conservation Area. Our heritage assessment informed the development of proposals from an early stage. We supported pre-application discussions with the London Borough of Lambeth and produced a Views Assessment, taking account of key views from bridges and from the Palace of Westminster. We assisted the project to develop in and around a functioning hospital site.
The project was granted planning permission in April 2021.
“We need to pioneer approaches that will advance the implementation of new medical technology into the patient care pathway while enhancing the standard of care. The London Institute for Healthcare Engineering will address these aspects by physically embedding staff from multiple sectors to create an ecosystem to accelerate end-to-end translation of novel healthcare technologies.”
– Professor Sebastien Ourselin, Head of the School of Biomedical Engineering & Imaging Sciences at King’s College London
Client: King’s College London
Architects: HLM Architects