Barratt Developments

Early on in lockdown, Barratt donated all 5,000 of its FFP3 face masks to the NHS and its 400 defibrillators to St John Ambulance in England and St Andrew’s First Aid in Scotland. The housebuilder also donated £100,000 to NHS Charities Together, backed the Lighthouse Construction Industry Charity and gave £25,000 to the Big Issue, whose vendors rely on magazine sales to make a living. In addition, it donated nearly £30,000 a month to local charities across its 27 divisions, while many of its staff volunteered to work in hospitals, deliver food and medicines, or simply talk on the phone to vulnerable and lonely people.

BDP

To help combat the coronavirus pandemic, BDP undertook a study proposing the conversion of large-scale event venues into temporary ICU facilities. This led to the 115,000m² ExCeL conference centre in London’s Docklands being repurposed into the nation’s first NHS Nightingale temporary hospital for covid-19 patients. Collaborating with clinicians, consultants, contractors, the ExCeL FM team and the British Army, BDP ensured the first 500 beds were ready in just nine days. The firm was then approached to lead on the design of five other NHS Nightingale hospitals in Birmingham, Manchester, Harrogate, Bristol and Cardiff.

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