Topping Out Ceremony at Glasgow Imaging Centre

Staff and visitors celebrated the topping-out ceremony of the University of Glasgow’s £16m Imaging Centre of Excellence (ICE) building on the grounds of the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital.

Supported by the NHS and funded by the UK Government and the Medical Research Council (MRC) as part of the Glasgow City Region City Deal, ICE will be equipped with a £10 million 7 Tesla MRI scanner and world class facilities to support research into brain imaging in diseases such as stroke, dementia and brain tumours. ICE is expected to generate up to 400 new jobs and add nearly £85 million for the local economy over the next ten years.

Professor Dame Anna Dominiczak, Vice Principal and Head of the College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences at the University said: “I am delighted at the speed in which the construction of the ICE building has progressed. The creation of this internationally competitive centre incorporating NHS, academic and industry partners will maximise and facilitate the economic impact from the clinical research excellence at the QEUH. I would like to take this opportunity to acknowledge and thank the people involved in the planning, design and construction, without whom this project would not have been possible.”

Companies involved in the construction of the ICE building include bmj architects, BAM Construction, Hulley & Kirkwood, Arup and Currie and Brown.

Robert Calderwood, Chief Executive of NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, added: “The opening of the new ICE building will offer us the provision of four state of the art theatre suites with full ancillary accommodation which will be utilised by the Department of Neurosurgery and Oral Maxillofacial Surgery, providing the opportunity to thereafter refurbish the existing four theatre suite.”