Laya Healthcare, Ireland

Laya Healthcare’s new Cork and Cherrywood clinics feature welcoming, neurodiversity-friendly designs, with Altro flooring selected for comfort, safety, ease of maintenance and aesthetics across all patient and staff areas. Issue Laya Healthcare have been creating new healthcare and wellbeing clinics in Ireland. The brief was to design environments that meet the diverse needs of all users, including those with neurodiversity, creating a comfortable, welcoming, and efficient healthcare experience. Spaces also needed to support staff wellbeing, be beautiful, and be functional, balancing clinical operational needs with a desired patient experience. Approach The design included patient-facing areas, a nurses’ station, an X-ray waiting area and MRI suite, stairwells, toilets and shower rooms, and operating theatre prep and recovery rooms. Staff changing rooms, showers and toilets also needed to be installed with flooring for comfort and slip resistance. To meet the sustainability criteria and keep the project to tight completion timescales, installation speed was critical. Solution Altro adhesive-free floors helped to meet the build schedules. Altro Cantata adhesive-free in colour Crème Caramel was specified for communal areas. Altro Cantata adhesive-free features Altro’s most advanced cleaning technology, ensuring easy maintenance and enhanced infection control, along with impact sound reduction of 14dB. Altro Wood adhesive-free in colour Champagne Oak was specified to provide high comfort underfoot, offering a safe, durable, biophilic solution for busy circulation and waiting areas. For the showers, changing rooms, and toilets, where slip risk was higher, Altro Pisces in colour Cuttlefish was specified, providing lifetime slip resistance and a soft-look shade. Testimonials “From early sketches to material choices, every detail is built with purpose. We are proud to partner with Laya Healthcare in creating clinics that don’t just function well, they feel good to be in.” TAP Design Consultancy "This latest addition to PHP's portfolio reinforces our commitment to investing in high-quality, sustainable healthcare infrastructure." Mark Davies, Chief Executive, PHP