Hospital benefits from harmonious setting.

Dealing sensitively with local wildlife, necessitating a phased demolition of an existing 1930s-built hospital to avoid disturbing bats and badgers in and around the construction site, was among the challenges successfully overcome by Mansell in completing the new Brentwood Community Hospital in Essex to a standard which has both delighted local people and secured the impressive new facility an "Excellent" NEAT rating. Jonathan Baillie reports.