Locations
ExCel Centre, London
UWE Frenchay Campus, Bristol
Millbrook Playing Fields, Jersey
Project type - London
Wayfinding Strategy
External Signage
NHS NIGHTINGALE HOSPITAL LONDON
On March 24th Health Secretary Matt Hancock announced plans to create NHS Nightingale Hospital London within the ExCel Centre. Developed to support the NHS during the Covid crisis, the temporary hospital had an initial capacity for 500 patients, with the potential for 4000.
The first of a number of NHS Nightingale Hospitals throughout the UK, NHS Nightingale Hospital London was officially opened on 3rd April, only 10 days after its announcement.
This rapid timescale was made possible through a collaboration of military planners, NHS England, Architects BDP, logistics coordinator Wilson James, plus importantly, a host of commercial companies, like Best Wayfinding, providing core design, supply and implementation services.
MAIN OBJECTIVES
The NHS Nightingale wayfinding strategy had two main objectives:
- Get all users on-site and to their end-point quickly and safely
- Get all users off-site safely, whilst minimising the risk of cross contamination
As wayfinding experts, Best Wayfinding know that an effective wayfinding strategy leads site users to an end point one step at a time.
KEY DELIVERABLES
- Wayfinding Strategy
- Signage to direct all users to the car park
- Layout for car park zones
- Line marking for parking spaces and walkways
- Signage to direct users from the car park to the facility
- External site/building signage, directing users into and around the facility
Project type - Bristol
Wayfinding Strategy
External Signage
Internal Signage
NHS NIGHTINGALE HOSPITAL BRISTOL
NHS Nightingale Hospital Bristol was announced on 3rd April and officially opened on 27th April. With the capacity for 60 patients (and the potential for 300), Bristol was a far smaller site than the ExCel facility. However, with similar logistic requirements, the reduced space on-site created some of its own issues.
NHS NIGHTINGALE HOSPITAL JERSEY
NHS Nightingale Hospital Jersey was a 180-bed facility, built on Millbrook playing fields. In addition to the challenge of a short build timescale, lockdown meant that the project’s construction was also limited to using services already on the island. Having already developed wayfinding strategies for London and Bristol, Best Wayfinding was a logical choice to work with the Jersey team.
Project type - Jersey
Wayfinding Strategy
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