Belfast's Royal Victoria Hospital to receive Engineering Heritage Award
16/10/2018 Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMECHE)
Belfast's Royal Victoria Hospital will be presented with a prestigious Engineering Heritage Award by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers which recognises its engineering importance as the first public building in the UK to be air-conditioned.The ceremony will be held on Wednesday 24 October 2018.
The hospital's pioneering ventilation system fed clean air through a 400 foot long duct to the wards, and temperature and humidity were controlled for the benefit of patients.
This is will be the 122nd Engineering Heritage Award to be presented by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers.
The awards, established in 1984, aim to promote artefacts, sites or landmarks of significant engineering importance - past and present.
Previous winners of Engineering Heritage Awards include Alan Turing's Bombe at Bletchley Park, the E-Type Jaguar and Concorde.
For more information, please visit: www.imeche.org
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