Brookfield Multiplex handed over the keys to Scotland’s largest hospital to NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde after delivering the project under budget and ahead of schedule.

The South Glasgow University Hospital and Royal Hospital for Sick Children campus contains maternity, paediatric and adult hospitals all integrated onto a single site.

The new hospital will provide beds for 256 children, 1,109 beds in single room accommodation in the acute care hospital, 30 modern operating theatres, accident and emergency services and a full range of in-patient and day case paediatric services.

NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde said the design was a move away from the traditional ward-based model.

The health board’s chief executive, Robert Calderwood, said: “With the exception of critical care, all of the patient areas in the adult hospital are single en-suite rooms and all bedrooms have a full-length floor-to-ceiling windows on the outside wall to increase natural daylight but also to give the patient the opportunity to see out with the clinical environment.

“In the children’s hospital 80 per cent of the 256 beds are singe, en-suite, with parents’ accommodation in the area.”

Also on campus, Brookfield Multiplex constructed one of the most advanced diagnostic laboratory facilities in the world, completed on time in 2012 and under budget.

Following a ceremonial ‘key handover’, Robert Calderwood, NHS GGC chief executive, said: “I am delighted that our partnership with Brookfield Multiplex has seen the delivery of this world class hospital complex achieved not only ahead of schedule but also under budget.

“This accomplishment is testament to every single individual who has worked on this project since the blueprints were first drawn up.

“As we take delivery of the project and embark on the final phase of readiness for the first patients I wish to acknowledge contribution of the very many people involved. From the architects and NHS planners and clinicians to the hundreds of construction workers of all disciplines and the wider business community with whom we have contracted to ensure a lasting community benefit from this project – all deserve recognition for their efforts.”

Brookfield Multiplex will now move into the last phase of the overall hospital campus master plan, which will be completed the last quarter of 2016.