Second WELL building due for December completion at Huddersfield Uni
On completion, the seven-acre National Health Innovation Campus will qualify as the only ‘WELL At Scale’ site in the UK.
Constructed by BAM and designed by AHR Architects, the Daphne Steele building was the first of seven on the campus that will be built to the Platinum WELL building standard.
Named after the NHS’s first black matron, the building cost approximately £75m to build and was designed to be a model hospital.
It will allow the university to train more nurses, midwives, paramedics, and other health professionals.
Construction of the circa £60m second building is now under way, with Kier and AHR leading the project team.
Once complete, it will have a community diagnostic centre, as well as a health and wellbeing innovation centre.
Named after Emily Siddon, a suffragette and an advocate for children’s health from the Kirklees area, the building is expected to open in December 2025.
The University of Huddersfield’s National Health Innovation Campus has been designed to focus on how an individual’s health impacts the prosperity of a place, and how wellbeing can contribute to the economy.
With the campus being easily accessible from the railway station, once the TransPennine upgrade has been completed Huddersfield will be accessible from Leeds in 10 minutes and from Manchester in 20.
