A contractor has been named to build a £15m landmark building at Nottingham Trent University.
Henry Brothers will construct the 'mock hospital' facility at to help train healthcare professionals of the future.
Procured through Pagabo’s Major Works Framework, the 34,000 sq ft building at NTU’s Clifton Campus will serve as the base for the university’s Institute of Health & Allied Professions.
One floor will be dedicated to simulated healthcare environments including hospital wards, consultation and counselling rooms, and even a flat for home and emergency care scenarios.
The settings will also feature lifelike patient manikins to give students the experience of working with men, women and children with a variety of injuries.
Two additional floors will provide office and flexible teaching spaces, including removable seating in lecture theatres to allow for creative learning approaches such as role play.
The news comes after Nottingham City Council approved the scheme at the start of September.
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Ian Taylor, managing director of Henry Brothers Midlands, said: "We are proud to have been selected to build this facility which will have such an important role to play in training future generations of healthcare professionals.
"Henry Brothers Midlands has successfully partnered with Nottingham Trent University on a number of projects in recent years, helping to create first-class facilities for a range of disciplines, including a new £23m engineering building and the £9m Enterprise Innovation Centre, which is currently being built, and we are delighted to have been appointed on this latest state-of-the-art scheme."
Dr Anne Felton, head of the Institute of Health & Allied Professions, added: "Contemporary registered healthcare professionals are required to be dynamic and flexible.
"As well as providing compassionate care, they need to be able to think critically, make complex decisions and lead.
"Fostering these skills in the next generation of nurses, paramedics and allied health professionals requires universities to use a range of teaching and learning strategies which complement and enhance the time students spend in practice during their courses.
"The facilities in this cutting-edge new building will enable us to recreate a ward setting, or a persons’ home environment, so students can practice and apply the skills they are learning in a safe way and in a realistic context, as well as creating scenarios for students that may be rare in a real world situation."