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Royal Infirmary Edinburgh

New Scottish Hospital, Little France, Craigmillar, Scotland by Keppie

New Royal Infirmary Edinburgh : Information + Images

Royal Infirmary Edinburgh
ERI: photo from keppie architects

Address: 51 Little France Crescent, Edinburgh, Midlothian, EH16 4SA

Phone: 0131 536 1000

New Royal Infirmary, Petit France, south-east Edinburgh
1996-2002
Keppie Design (Glasgow)

This Private Finance Initiative (PFI) hospital / teaching complex at Little France below Craigmillar Castle comprises 120,000 square metres of floor area, accommodating 869 beds and 24 operating theatres with support facilities. Begun in 1996, the £150m project was completed in 2002.

Royal Infirmary Edinburgh, Petit France
photo © Adrian Welch

New Royal Infirmary architects : Keppie Design
The New Royal Infirmary hospital approx. cost: £184m

Plans for a £400m redevelopment – Quartermile – of the old Edinburgh Royal Infirmary site, at Lauriston Place, with buildings up to ten storeys high were submitted by the developers Southside Capital to the City of Edinburgh Council in April 2003. Edinburgh City Council Planning considered Southside Capital’s Royal Infirmary Redevelopment Application on 10 April 2003 and rejected it.

Royal Infirmary Edinburgh Keppie Edinburgh Keppie Architects
New Royal Infirmary photos © Adrian Welch

The New Edinburgh Royal Infirmary opened in January 2002. Located south of Edinburgh, at Little France off the Old Dalkeith Road (A7) the site will also house the new University of Edinburgh Medical School.

The New Edinburgh Royal Infirmary was designed in line with the City of Edinburgh Council’s Green Transport Policy. New bus routes linking Little France with Edinburgh’s centre were created plus Park and Ride facilities. Phase 1 was the creation of The Medical School and NHS Trust. Phase 2, Apr-Jun 2003, involved the relocation of all staff & equipment from the Old Royal Infirmary at Lauriston Place and existing Edinburgh University assets to the main hospital building and the Chancellor’s Building.

The Chancellor’s Building includes teaching facilities – two auditoria and seven seminar rooms – student microlabs and video conference capabilities. There are five dry labs, a library and a Clinical Teaching Resource Centre.

Keppie Design’s £200m masterplan for the Biomedical Research Centre Edinburgh at Little France:

Biomedical Building: photo from keppie architects

New Royal Infirmary – website: www.edinburgh.gov.uk/rie

Scottish Parliament

Harvey Nichols

Scottish buildings by Keppie:
Ocean Terminal – Executive Architects
New Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh
BBC Glasgow – Executive Architects

Edinburgh Royal Infirmary
three-quarters of the public support controversial plans for a £400m transformation of the old Edinburgh Royal Infirmary site:

10 Apr 2003