{"id":103020,"date":"2021-12-17T17:17:19","date_gmt":"2021-12-17T17:17:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/?p=103020"},"modified":"2021-12-17T17:17:19","modified_gmt":"2021-12-17T17:17:19","slug":"demolition-of-norton-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/demolition-of-norton-court\/103020\/","title":{"rendered":"Demolition of Norton Court makes way for Birmingham Women\u2019s Hospital\u2019s modernisation"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Demolition of Norton Court at <a href=\"https:\/\/bwc.nhs.uk\/birmingham-womens-hospital\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Birmingham Women\u2019s Hospital<\/a> by leading building company <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/tilbury-douglas-warrington-hospital-extension\/101281\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tilbury Douglas<\/a> and local demolition and remediation partners <a href=\"https:\/\/www.armacgroup.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Armac Group<\/a> has successfully paved the way for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/birmingham-hospital\/84556\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">hospital expansion<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>With the demolition of Norton Court and the Dental Hospital out the way, the <a href=\"https:\/\/bwc.nhs.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Birmingham Women\u2019s and Children\u2019s NHS Foundation Trust<\/a> (BWC) is now one step closer to the hospital\u2019s \u2018Big Build\u2019 dream.<\/p>\n<p>BWC will now modernise and expand both its Women\u2019s and Children\u2019s Hospitals.<\/p>\n<h3>Norton Court through the years<\/h3>\n<p>In 1968 it was known as Birmingham Maternity Hospital and Norton Court provided residential accommodation for doctors and nurses.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, Norton Court has been used by a number of services which have included Neonatal Parent Accommodation, Medical Engineering and Clinical Genetics.<\/p>\n<p>However over time it became clear that the building was not suitable or fitting with the rest of the hospital \u2013 it became outdated, unsightly, and very expensive to maintain.<\/p>\n<h3>The demolition<\/h3>\n<p>In 2019, only 40% of the building was occupied and the remaining staff finally left it before demolition began in October 2020.<\/p>\n<p>The demolition of Norton Court project <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/energy-news\/construction-and-demolition\/102696\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">put special measures in place to reduce the impact of noise, dust, and disruption<\/a> on the live hospital site.<\/p>\n<p>Work will be finished on the Children\u2019s Hospital site in 2022.<\/p>\n<h3>\u2018This year marks another positive step forward in our Big Build ambition\u2019<\/h3>\n<p>Sarah-Jane Marsh said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile Norton Court is an integral part of the Women\u2019s Hospital\u2019s history, it was outdated, impractical and the opposite of what women, men and families expect from a specialist hospital.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I became CEO in 2017, it was clear that the building was failing &#8211; not just in terms of modern health care provision but also in providing a suitable working environment for our staff.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo matter what the future holds, we are now fortunate to have land at both the Women\u2019s and Children\u2019s Hospitals available to build on.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe demolition of Norton Court this year marks another positive step forward in our Big Build ambition to provide world-class facilities that our women, children, young people and families truly deserve and that we can be proud of as a Trust, city and region.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Richard Myatt, contract manager for Tilbury Douglas Construction &#8211; Midlands, added:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have been working with Birmingham Women\u2019s and Children\u2019s Hospital for several years and while we are normally building something new for them, these demolition projects mark both the end of an era and the beginning of an exciting new chapter for the Trust.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"mk-custom-module-container\">\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Demolition of Norton Court at Birmingham Women\u2019s Hospital by leading building company Tilbury Douglas and local demolition and remediation partners Armac Group has successfully paved the way for hospital expansion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[304],"tags":[594,676,114,952,780,669],"stakeholder_rel_tag":[],"contributor_rel_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-103020","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-planning-construction-news","7":"tag-building-design","8":"tag-construction","9":"tag-demolition","10":"tag-planning","11":"tag-collaboration","12":"tag-regeneration"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.9 (Yoast SEO v26.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Demolition of Norton Court makes way for Birmingham Women\u2019s Hospital\u2019s modernisation<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Demolition of Norton Court by leading building company Tilbury Douglas and local demolition partners Armac Group has paved the way for hospital expansion\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/demolition-of-norton-court\/103020\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Demolition of Norton Court makes way for Birmingham Women\u2019s Hospital\u2019s modernisation\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Demolition of Norton Court by leading building company Tilbury Douglas and local demolition partners Armac Group has paved the way for hospital expansion\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/demolition-of-norton-court\/103020\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Planning, Building &amp; 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