Balfour Beatty mental health PFI project

Edited by the Buildingtalk editorial team Dec 13, 2007

Balfour Beatty Construction and its partners reach financial close on GBP36 million Northampton mental health PFI project.

Balfour Beatty Construction, the building business of Balfour Beatty plc and its partners, Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Trust, Investors in the Community and Kier Facilities Management, have reached financial close on the GBP36 million Northampton Mental Health PFI project.

The project will provide a new 135-bed mental health hospital in Northampton, incorporating clinical and therapy functions including a 25-person day hospital, a low secure unit, therapy rooms and gardens.

The new building which will replace the existing Pendered Centre in Duston is scheduled for completion in Spring 2010.

Commenting on the financial close of the project Balfour Beatty Construction General Manager Dave Ronan said: "We are delighted to have reached this significant milestone and are looking forward to creating a facility that will ensure the Trust achieves its ambitions for the highest standards of patient care".

"Balfour Beatty is bringing to the Trust many decades of experience in working as a key contractor in the healthcare sector".