Three local firms have won contracts to work on the $315 million redevelopment of the King Edward VII Memorial Hospital.

Bermuda Hospitals Board (BHB) announced this week that Conyers & Associates, OnSite Engineering and Bermuda-Caribbean Engineering Consultants have been selected as technical advisers to the project.

The companies were picked after a competitive selection process using a "robust evaluation", according to BHB deputy CEO Venetta Symonds.

She said: "These firms bring significant local knowledge regarding planning, design, engineering and construction to the project and are vital to creating output specifications that take Bermuda's unique conditions into account."

The technical advisory team will help draw up a request for proposal (RFP) for companies bidding to design the new acute care hospital facilities in Paget.

BHB said this week that the redevelopment project — which is being funded through a public-private partnership — was on schedule.

A preferred designer will be chosen by summer 2010 and ground will be broken in late 2010, with the facilities due to open by 2014.