Located on the main Royal Victoria Hospital site next to the existing maternity hospital, the Belfast Health and Social Care Trust’s new £57m facility will include delivery suites, obstetric theatres and the neonatal intensive care unit all on one floor, with easy access between them. There will also be a midwifery-led unit as part of the same facility, with ensuite rooms, each with a birthing pool.  

Karen Brookes, the trust’s director of capital planning and redevelopment, said: “We look forward to working with our partners Graham-Bam to create a high-quality modern maternity hospital, which will help enable us to deliver quality care, designed to meet the needs of more than 6000 women who have their babies delivered by the Royal Jubilee Maternity Service each year.”

Ron Clarke, managing director for building at Graham Construction, added: “We’re delighted to have been selected by the Belfast trust to construct the new maternity unit on the Royal Victoria Hospital complex. This new building will be a friendly and welcoming environment with state-of-the-art facilities and more choice, to better meet the needs of the women who’ll use it.”

Graham Construction’s current healthcare projects include a £30 million new cancer treatment centre at Thames Valley Science Park, Reading. In Scotland, it was recently selected to develop the £134m Baird and Anchor projects for NHS Grampian on its Foresterhill Health Campus in Aberdeen.