The University of Plymouth's new home for healthcare training and research has won a prestigious accolade.
InterCity Place, overlooking the city's main railway station, triumphed in the Regeneration Project of the Year category at the Construction News Awards 2024.
In declaring it the winner, judges praised the University's vision - and the work of its main contractor Kier - in taking "a redundant inner city 1960s office block in a challenging location and creating a state-of-the-art training facility".
The £33million project, completed in August 2023, transformed a prominent building that had sat idle for more than a decade.
Repurposed and reinvigorated, it is now home to cutting-edge facilities that are being used to educate future generations of nurses, midwives, allied health professionals, optometrists and social workers.
The building was also redeveloped to the highest environmental standards, having been rated SKA Gold and with more than 1,800 tonnes of embodied carbon saved by reusing the existing structure.
InterCity Place was one of 10 projects shortlisted for the award, and eclipsed initiatives from every corner of the UK.
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