Health campus up for global award

A former convent now home to a multidisciplinary healthcare campus is being showcased as an example of the country’s finest architecture.

Waterford Health Park has been shortlisted for World Building of the Year at the World Architecture Festival Awards and is now being promoted as an example of best practice under the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage.

The inventory is maintained by the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht through initiatives including the website, www.buildingsofireland.ie.