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| Spain's FCC to build and operate a hospital in Northern Ireland Western Health and Social Care Trust has signed a concession contract with the Northern Ireland Health Group consortium, in which Spanish construction firm FCC is the largest shareholder (39%), for the design, construction, financing and operation of the new hospital in Enniskillen, in Northern Ireland (UK). The project represents an investment of approximately 270 million pounds sterling (300 million euro). The other shareholders in the consortium are Irish companies Allied Irish Bank Plc, Interserve Investments and P. Elliott & Company. South West New Acute Hospital will be built in three years; it will have 300 individual rooms and span more than 65,000 square metres. It will have a facility to house employees and an energy demand management centre, making it one of the most modern hospitals in Europe in terms of energy efficiency. The hospital is the first public-private partnership project in Northern Ireland. write your comments about the article :: © 2009 Construction News :: home page |