healthcare special report
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New North Zealand Hospital – a blueprint for the future of healthcare
By Steven Bentley, Director, Ramboll UK
tion” and spoke of the opportunity to “build for the future”. Located in the region north of Copenhagen, the new £400 million hospital consolidates the area’s three existing hospitals, and is part of Denmark’s wider healthcare consolidation programme that includes the redevelopment of nine hospitals in total. Following a 12 month international design competition, the
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architectural consortium of Herzog & de Meuron/Vilhelm Lauritzen Arkitekter were awarded the contract to design, while Ramboll were named as project management consultants and providers of engineering services. The final design for New North Zealand Hospital will span
over 128,000 sq m, serve over 310,000 people and hold nearly 700 beds. It is marked for completion in 2020. Interestingly, one of the main cruxes to its design is the need to ‘plan for uncertainty’ and ‘design for change’. The hospital must be
hen the New North Zealand Hospital in Hillerød, Denmark, delivered its brief for the design of a new hospital, it asked for “creativity and innova-
flexible enough to accommodate technology that is yet to be invented and handle epidemics that may yet be unleashed. In addition, as requested by the hospital board, the design is to be fully led by best practice in patient care.
Incorporating nature
The greenfield site offers an ‘optimal physical setting’, with the structural design intended to work alongside natural space to maximise recovery times – such as ‘on’ and ‘off ’ stage zones to separate patients from functional hospital aspects. The designers drew on outside studies, including a report by Dr Robert Ulrich, Professor of Architecture at the Center for Healthcare Building Research in Sweden. Ulrich’s work revealed patients recover significantly faster in single bed wards, and that bringing patients closer to nature improves their sense of well-being and thus speeds up recovery. In an inverted population pyramid there will be fewer resources available for an aging population, so single bed wards provide a key Continued overleaf...
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