Engineering Mental Health Hospitals

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Easily accessible, de-stigmatized mental health services play a vital role in society. Demand for these services is growing as people live longer and there is a greater understanding of mental health conditions – from rising anxiety and depression to more prevalent degenerative brain diseases. This puts pressure on mental healthcare providers to expand capacity and provide a growing range of specialist services that support patients’ diverse needs. Alongside that, many existing hospitals and treatment facilities require upgrades to modernize them and deliver new standards of care.

Our healthcare engineers, specialist consultants and advisory teams help to deliver all kinds of mental health facilities. These range from community outreach centres and small, hotel-style clinics to tertiary and acute assessment and treatment facilities, to behavioral health campuses and high-security forensic psychiatric hospitals. Collaborating with our clients and design partners, we’re helping to create nurturing environments that are welcoming, relaxing and safe for patients, staff and visitors.

"We create mental health environments that foster healing and wellbeing, allowing patients to focus on their recovery."

Kevin Cassidy
Global Healthcare Lead

What makes a world-class mental health facility?

Forensic Psychiatry, Hadamar

Clean, safe environments

Hygiene and patient safety are key. Our healthcare engineers use a ‘safety by design’ approach to ensure the highest standards of patient care throughout every detail of a project. Examples of this in practice include minimal-maintenance facilities and features that minimize risk, such as natural surveillance integrated into structures and layouts. We sensitively combine the most appropriate measures to meet the unique needs of each facility.

Positive experiences

We consult extensively with healthcare staff, patients and their families and draw on the latest ideas to create welcoming, friendly environments where people feel free to relax. From using structural and acoustic engineering solutions to optimize privacy and dignity, to design approaches that enable plenty of natural light, fresh air and access to nature.

Roseberry Park, UK

Hafan y Coed, Wales

Efficiency and performance

As specialists in environmental design, as well as the mental health sector, we have delivered some of the world’s most efficient buildings and understand that patient wellbeing and sustainable design go hand in hand. For example, our engineers work with clients on ways to reduce their energy and water use, while providing comfortable spaces for people that are cost-effective to construct, operate and maintain.

Future-ready facilities

Modern mental health facilities are continually evolving to provide caring and compassionate environments for healing and wellbeing. We work closely with our clients to set new standards and create spaces that can adapt to changing demands and the impact of climate change – combining world-class therapeutic design, pioneering architecture and innovative materials, technologies and construction techniques.