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Queen Elizabeth ll
inaugurates a hospital
built by FCC
in Northern lreland
Enniskillen Hospital is the first one to be
awarded as a public-private partnership in
Northern Ireland and is part of the extensive
investment programme aimed at improving
infrastructure in the UK. It is also the first
new hospital to be built in Northern Ireland
in over a decade.
The inauguration coincided with the official
two-day visit to Northern Ireland by Queen
Elizabeth II as part of the Diamond Jubilee
celebrations in the UK; she was accom-
panied by the Duke of Edinburgh. Health
Minister Edwin Poots welcomed the royal
couple and informed them about the hos-
pital.
The new facility, which has 315 individual
rooms and spans 65,000 square metres,
offers the most modern clinical practices
and the latest technologies in patient care.
The New South West Acute Hospital will
also offer a wide range of specialties, with
a focus on maternity and emergency servi-
ces, and will complement those offered by
Erne Hospital, also in Enniskillen.
Queen Elizabeth ll of England has officially
inaugurated the New South West Acute Hospital
in Enniskillen (around 40 kilometres outside Belfast),
which was built by FCC. The project cost
around 340 million euro (276 million pounds)
and was completed in three years.
The project dates back to May 2009,
when the Western Health and Social Care
Trust signed a concession contract with
the Northern Ireland Health Group con-
sortium, in which FCC Construction is the
largest shareholder (39%), for the design,
construction, financing and operation of
the new hospital in Enniskillen. The con-
sortium also comprised local companies
Allied Irish Bank Plc and Interserve Inves-
tments.
The hospital has a residence building for
hospital workers and an energy demand
management centre, making it one of
the most advanced in Europe in terms of
energy efficiency.
The hospital is laid out in three bands or li-
nes of blocks, separated by linear gardens
u s i n e s s