NHS Grampian is using support from the Green Infrastructure Fund to transform Scotland’s largest hospital complex into a site which will demonstrate how a healthy natural environment is good for patients, visitors and staff.

The Foresterhill campus is the site of Aberdeen’s main hospitals alongside the medical school and medical science departments of the University of Aberdeen. The site has historically been developed incrementally in an uncoordinated manner, resulting in a campus that is dominated by vehicular circulation and infrastructure, difficult for pedestrians and covered by impermeable surfacing and lacking usable or accessible greenspace.

The green infrastructure project intends to improve pedestrian accessibility, create ‘destination’ green spaces, sustainably manage stormwater and bolster a green network across the campus