Work Commences on the New Home for the Institute of Mental Health

One out of Four people throughout the East Midlands could benefit from the new building for the Institute of Mental Health which helps transform the understanding and treatment of mental illness. 

The new £7m bespoke home for the Institute of Mental Health, which is located on the University of Nottingham’s Jubilee Campus was officially marked by a ground breaking ceremony to celebrate commencement on site.

One in four people will develop a mental health problem at some point during their lives and this purpose built accommodation will enable the Institute to continue inter-disciplinary research in the mental health field. The facility will provide accommodation over 4 floors for a combination of administrative and faculty office spaces, with ancillary meeting and seminar accommodation.

The building has been designed to achieve a BREEAM ‘Excellent’ rating and incorporates a series of measures to help reduce the building’s energy consumption and carbon emissions rating.

G F Tomlinson Building Limited are the main contractors and their success follows closely on from their construction of the University’s new Vaughan Parry Williams Sports Pavilion on Highfields Park. 

The Institute of Mental Health was launched in 2006 and are a partnership between Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust and the University of Nottingham. Also moving into the new building will be the CLAHRC (Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care) for Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire and Lincolnshire, Mental Health Research Network East Midlands Hub plus South Yorkshire and the NHS East Midlands Leadership Academy.

Stuart Lawrence, Managing Director of G F Tomlinson Building Limited, said: “It is rewarding to be entrusted to construct the new home for the Institute of Mental Health and gives us great satisfaction to build a new facility that will help the understanding and treatment of mental illness, which effects so many people in society.”

The project is due for completion in April 2012.