FCC has received the Building Better Healthcare Award for its exceptional work on South West Acute Hospital in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland. The award, now in its fourteenth year, acknowledges and rewards building work and healthcare facilities in the United Kingdom. 

This is the hospital’s third award this year. It also took home the Engineering News Record’s Best Global Project Award and received the Green Apple Award in the Built Environment and Architectural Heritage category. The Green Apple acknowledges best environmental practices and is handed out by the Green Organisation, an initiative launched in the UK in 1994.

Approximately 340 million euros were invested in South West Acute Hospital, which is Ireland’s first healthcare building project in over a decade.

The hospital has a residential building for employees and an energy demand management centre, which makes it one of the most advanced hospitals in Europe in terms of energy efficiency.

Hospital-building expertise

FCC manages the construction of many healthcare facilities all over the world. Right now the group is building a 440-million-euro hospital complex in Panama, which will have 183,912 square metres of floor space, making it the biggest hospital in Central America. FCC is also building the 110-million-euro Luis Chicho Fábrega Hospital in the province of Veraguas, Panama.

The company has built many, many hospitals and health service buildings in Spain, too, such as San Carlos Clinical Hospital in Madrid, O’Donnell Maternity Hospital and the new Mataró Hospital in Mataró, Barcelona. It has also built the Esther Koplowitz Centre, Barcelona’s modern biomedical centre.