A highly influential study that re-examines the QEUH Campus in the context of green infrastructure, wellbeing, bio diversity and active travel.

This study reshapes how to look at hospital campuses. It demonstrates the potential of the hospital landscape to support the life and work of staff, patients, and visitors by creating vibrant and biodiverse outdoor spaces, coherent pedestrian and cycle access and multifunctional spaces that manage water and microclimate.

Client
The Sustainability team at NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde

Thinking Ahead

This is future-proofing the hospital-s immediate environment: for climate change, shifts in policy toward outdoor therapies, and a broader environment for clinical practice.

Staff rest and respite is provided for in many ways, from exercise spaces to sanctuary gardens.

Further Work

erz have delivered a further stage of work, developing these ideas into tangible plans for the QEUH, and have recently replicated the process for Stirling Health and Care Village.

“erz provide an excellent Landscape design service, innovative, creative, but most importantly they are very practical and experienced and good at meeting/exceeding client brief… erz have a lot of practical experience specifically of delivering therapeutic landscape design solutions, and working within health and care settings, ensuring interesting safe outdoor space for children, adolescents and elderly , and finding creative solutions appropriate to their differing needs.”

Green Exercise Partnership