Trowers & Hamlins is pleased to have advised Bouygues UK on the construction contracting for a new central London hospital dedicated to cancer treatment.

Bouygues UK has been awarded a £190 million contract by University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust to design and build the hospital and work is already underway onsite.  The new facility will be built near University College London Hospital's existing cancer and radiotherapy centre in Bloomsbury and is expected to be ready to receive patients in 2019.

The hospital will include an underground proton beam facility and will also include five floors dedicated to blood cancer patients and a short-stay surgery.

Projects and Construction partners Assad Maqbool and Peter Kitson advised Bouygues UK, in particular on the subcontracting of the project under the NEC3 form of contract.