Client
Kier Construction
Location
Huddersfield
Completion Date
December 2025
Expertise Used
Steel Frame Systems (SFS), Dry Lining, Suspended Ceilings, Plastering
Products Used
Remagin SFS, Siniat plasterboards and Zentia ceilings
In February, 2025, we began work on site at the University of Huddersfield, delivering the SFS, internal partitions, and ceilings for the new Emily Siddon Building in partnership with Kier Construction.
The Emily Siddon Building, is the second facility on the National Health Innovation Campus and contains specialist clinical teaching facilities, an NHS Community Diagnostic Centre (CDC) and a Health Business Innovation Centre. First through the doors in January 2026 were students from the University’s Diagnostic Radiography and Dental Hygiene and Dental Therapy courses.
With state-of-the-art simulation technology and access to the CDC, students will benefit from learning in a realistic environment, preparing them for their future careers. An MRI simulation scanner that students will use on the first floor is the first of its kind in the UK.
Operated by Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust (CHFT), the new CDC will start welcoming patients in early February, offering a wide range of diagnostic testing, such as X-Rays, CT and MRI scans, out of hospital in a convenient location.
The partnership between the University and CHFT is one of the first CDCs on a university campus in the UK.
The 6,800m² facility, designed by architects AHR and built by Kier, is adjacent to the Daphne Steele Building on Southgate, which opened in the autumn of 2024. It is named after Emily Siddon, the healthcare advocate who spent most of her life in nearby Honley, and who strove to improve healthcare and equality for the local population in several prestigious roles that had previously been reserved for men in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
The Emily Siddon Building will also be home to a Health Business Innovation Centre for local entrepreneurs or start-ups and organisations looking to benefit from locating with the University on the campus.
Following on from the Daphne Steele Building achieving Platinum Level WELL Certification, the Emily Siddon Building has also been built to a Platinum WELL standard. This standard prioritises the health and wellbeing of those using the building through air, water, nourishment, light, fitness, comfort and mind.
