Shortlists due out next January

Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust has started the search for architects and design teams to work on the development of two new hospitals in the city.

The trust was one of six to be awarded a share of 拢2.7bn of funding last year as part of the first wave of the government鈥檚 health infrastructure plan (HIP).

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The LGI has been at its current city centre site for over 150 years

It will deliver a 拢600m scheme.

The work at the Leeds General Infirmary, better known as the LGI, will include a new adult hospital and a major site for the Leeds Children鈥檚 Hospital.

As such it has the funding and planning approvals, having already received outline planning permission, in place to design and build both a hospital for adult healthcare and a purpose-built children鈥檚 hospital.

The programme, known as Hospitals of the Future, will see more than 94,000m2 of healthcare facilities built.

have been issued for architects, mechanical, electrical and public health engineering designers along with civil and structural engineers.

The which is worth 拢9.5m, is expected to run for five years.

The , which requires firms to be specialists in sustainability, net zero and digital design services, is divided into two lots and is worth a total 拢5.65m.

Lot one is looking for a designer and is worth 拢5m while the second lot, worth 拢650,000 is for a client-side advisor.

The has also been divided into two lots.

Lot one, worth 拢3.5m, is for civil and structural design services, while lot two is a 拢450,000 advisor role.

Five firms will be shortlisted for each of the five roles, with the contenders set to be announced on 26 January.

Interested firms have until 16 December to register their interest.

The trust is looking to use Design for Manufacture and Assembly and modern methods of construction on the job and is also aspiring to be the first trust in the HIP programme to be accredited to the WELL 好色先生TV Standard.

Last month it was revealed that Ryder had been chosen to lead the design of the new Whipps Cross Hospital in north east London 鈥 another one of the HIP hospitals projects.