St. Josefshospital in Krefeld-Uerdingen, an Order of Malta hospital, celebrated its topping-out ceremony along with numerous guests, including the mayor Frank Meyer and the managing director of Malteser-Deutschland gGmbH, Dr. Franz Graf von Harnoncourt. In his opening address the latter emphasised the significance of the building project: “This is the day many of us have been waiting for. It is not only a milestone for the Order of Malta and for Uerdingen but also for the town and the entire region”.

In addition to the work of refurbishment inside the building, the entrance hall will be redesigned and a five-storey ward block with a total of 40 beds in 28 rooms will be built. These comfortable modern rooms will be of hotel rather than hospital standard. On the ground floor of the new building there will be a cafeteria with a terrace.

The celebration of laying the foundation stone was carried out at the site close to the St. Josef-Stift and the Elisabeth-Stift in Sendenhorst. The Elisabeth Foundation is investing 1.9 million Euros in the new day and night care building designed by LUDES. There will be twelve day care and two night care places in in the 550 square metre building. As regards night care, the Foundation is taking on a pioneering role in Warendorf District, since these are the first two places of this kind in the district.

The building, which will be built in front of the Elisabeth-Stift to the west, stands out by virtue of its outer-facing “open” form in the shape of large glass façades and by its bright rooms flooded with light. The rooms form a direct visual axis over to Stiftsweg and the Westtor. “We want to create a feeling of being integrated into the whole environment”, explains Rita Tönjann, managing director of the Foundation. Completion of the building is scheduled for the beginning of 2018.

Bei dem Projektwettbewerb „Neubau Kantonales Spital Appenzell“ hat LUDES in Arbeitsgemeinschaft mit der Nissen Wentzlaff Architekten BSA SIA AG den zweiten Preis gewonnen. Ziel des Wettbewerbs war es, eine Lösung für den Neubau des kantonalen Spitals in direkter Nachbarschaft zum bestehenden Spital zu entwickeln.

Nach einem Präqualifikations-verfahren, an dem sich 41 Büros beteiligt hatten, wurden zwölf Büros für die Teilnahme am Wettbewerb ausgewählt, hinzu kamen die vier

Preisträger aus einem vorangegangenen städtebaulichen Wettbewerb für das Spital in Appenzell. In einer zweitägigen Sitzung der Wettbewerbsjury wurden die Preisträger ermittelt.

Fazit des Preisgerichts:
„Das Projekt „Belvedere“ zeichnet sich durch die stattliche Präsenz des neuen Spitals aus und ist geprägt von einem hohen archi-tektonischen Gestaltungswillen. Den Verfassern gelingt es einen interessanten und beachtens-werten Vorschlag zu unterbreiten. (…)“

As part of a conference entitled “hospital concepts 2016 – planning, building and operating medical centres” Dr. Michael Ludes reported on LUDES’ current study designed to evaluate new operating theatre concepts.

The central idea behind the talk was to describe the experience gained over the past years using examples from LUDES’ own projects and to discuss this with a wider audience. Based on a systematic survey of the key players working in operating

theatres, the central components of innovative operating theatre planning such as a pre-operative care unit, a central induction area or the parallel preparation in the clean corridor were thoroughly discussed from the point of view of quality and finance. Examples deliberately included operating theatre departments of different sizes and focus between the years 2000 and 2016. The aim was to give the further development of future-orientated operating theatre planning a new impetus.

In a European-wide pre-qualification process the hospital authorities were looking for four or five general planning teams to draw up a study for a new building at Lucerne Cantonal Hospital. From a field of 26 contenders the selectors chose the consortium ArGe LUDES | Nissen Wentzlaff Architekten as one of the teams.

The Spital Wolhusen was built in the 1970s and no longer fulfils the

needs of a modern hospital. As a result, a new hospital is to be built on the premises to replace the existing main building. A budget with an upper limit of 110 million Swiss Francs has been fixed. The project is to be developed by the planning teams in a competitive process as part of the aforementioned study in a multi-phase process, whereby the teams meet regularly to discuss progress.

LUDES has been commissioned by Mülheim Protestant Hospital for the building of a new operating department and for the re-structuring of the wing housing the other departments. A four to five-floor extension will be built which will include eight new operating theatres. In addition to the operating department the project comprises the accident and emergency department, radiology,

administration and the entrance hall.

The cost ceiling for the project has been set at 32 million Euros. Construction work will be carried out while the hospital is still running and will comprise several stages. Work is scheduled to start in January 2019 and the first phase is expected to be completed in early summer 2020.

LUDES has won the contract for a new helipad at Bonn University Hospital, following a European-wide selection process for the award of architectural services.

The existing landing area does not comply with regulations any longer, neither is it economical to operate. As a result, a new landing pad is to be built on the roof of an existing ward block. Via an extended system of lifts the helipad will be connected to the ground floor of the ward block, where patients arriving

on a trolley can be admitted directly to the accident and emergency department.

Since the existing superstructure of the building cannot support the load of the rooftop helipad and to strengthen the supports inside the building would be too costly, the weight of the landing pad will be distributed via trussed girders into the two existing service shafts and will additionally be taken up by the façade supports.

Work on the new ward wing at St. Josefshospital in Krefeld-Uerdingen started with the ceremonial ground-breaking. During his welcoming address the Chairman of the Order of Malta Germany said “We are very happy that we can now present a visible sign to the general public. The new ward wing will mean that our patients can benefit from a state-of-the-art hospital.”

Work on modernising and restructuring St. Josefshospital started at the beginning of the year

and the new ward wing with its five floors is now a visible sign of the work being done. The work includes a new entrance hall and cafeteria on the ground floor and, on each of the four floors above, two single rooms and four double rooms of a standard suitable for patients who want some optional extras. These will be linked with the existing nursing care areas to create wards which are econo-mically viable, with short ways and improved workflows. Completion is scheduled for spring 2018.

With the passing away of Jörg Kassautzki we have lost a wonderful member of staff. Following his training as a draftsman, Jörg studied architecture at Bochum University of Applied Sciences before joining our company in 1998, initially as a building management assistant. Thanks to his commitment and the exemplary way in which he identified with his job meant that he rapidly rose to more responsible positions, finally taking over the management of larger and more complex projects. He played a decisive part in the new building and extension work at Bamberg Hospital, the new operating theatre centre at München-Großhadern University Hospital and the extension work at Duisburg Protestant Hospital.

In addition to his professional achievements, Jörg stood out by virtue of his reliability and his steadfast loyalty to the company as well as his fairness and collegiality, including towards younger members of staff to whom he was always prepared to impart his great wealth of experience.

His sudden and unexpected death after nearly 20 years with the company has deeply affected us all. We have lost a highly-esteemed colleague whose memory we shall always cherish.

On behalf of the management and staff of
LUDES Architekten – Ingenieure GmbH

Dr.Ing Michael Ludes
Dr.med. Ibtisam Ludes

The laying of the foundation stone for a fourth ward tower was celebrated in a ceremony at Bamberg Hospital in the presence of Melanie Huml, the Bavarian Minister of Health. In her speech the minister said that “the fourth ward tower will not only change the whole appearance of the hospital, it will also significantly expand the range of care offered.

The tower represents the fifth phase in the modernisation of the

hospital and will provide a further 248 beds. As a result, the two-bed room will continue to be the standard at the hospital. New forms of care will also be offered, such as a special ward for the intensive care and earlier rehabilitation of stroke patients and those with traumatic brain injuries. An independent unit will be created for the care of older patients. Completion of the new bed tower is scheduled for 2019.

Beitrag Radio Bamberg

In the presence of the mayor of Bad Aibling, Felix Schwaller, the ground-breaking ceremony has been celebrated for the extension of the future neurological-orthopaedic Schön Klinik in Bad Aibling. In this project, the two hospital sites, Bad Aibling and Harthausen, will be combined. The new 450-bed hospital will open in spring 2018. The extension alone comprises 18,000 square metres. It will house four operating theatres equipped with natural daylight, four acute medical wards, a combined intensive unit and intermediate-care ward with a total of 45 beds, and a supply of energy-efficient technology.

According to the unanimous view of the management, the extension, built at a cost of 57 million Euros, will set new standards in medical

care. The extended clinic will be a real innovation in every respect, because it brings together two departments which have always been two of the real strengths of the Schön Hospital: neurology and orthopaedics.

Dr. Kerstin Eisenbeiss, the head of the clinic, was delighted with the new buildings. “There are many advantages. There will be an improved medical quality, with more patient safety thanks to the single rooms, the architecture of the building is designed to promote the healing process, in the operating areas the processes are optimised, patients will receive quicker attention thanks to the short distances that staff need to cover and the hospital is a more attractive place to work.”

On Friday, many invited guests – politicians, representatives of the churches, members of professional associations, and staff of the hospital attended the ground-breaking ceremony for the new Helios St. Johannes Klinik in Duisburg. Helios is investing around 120 million Euros in a new ward, operating and laboratory building covering an area of 25,000 square metres of usable floor space. The new building is designed to improve the workflow in the operating areas of the

hospital and the distances between the various departments are to be shortened. In future, the operating areas, radiology, the laboratory, admissions and a large part of the nursing care will be close to each other.

Before building work can start however, various parts of the building must be pulled down. In about a year the topping-out ceremony can be held and the new part of the hospital should be finished in 2019.

The new building at Crailsheim Hospital costing 56 million Euros was officially opened after a building time of three years. The compact building, with its short ways and light pleasantly-furnished rooms equipped with the most modern medical technology, has provided the basis for first-class medical care.

The building is equipped with many passive housing elements and has

been designed in an energy-saving and sustainable way. A high-quality façade insulation and triple-glazed windows ensure that the heating consumption remains low, and this in turn is further reduced by the heat recovery from the ventilation system. A block-type thermal power station together with a photovoltaic system provides the efficient generation of heat and electricity.

It has long been accepted in Augsburg that the Schwaben Mother-Child Centre at Augsburg Hospital has very high medical standards, yet the centre is also a pioneer as regards environmental factors and the efficient use of energy.

The new building is a “perfect” example of a “green hospital” according to Melanie Humel, Minister of Health for Bavaria who, together with a representative from Bavaria’s environmental minister, officially presented a certificate with the title “Green Hospital Bavaria 2016” to Prof. Dr. Gernot Buheitel, Senior Consultant at Clinic II for Children and Adolescents and the

speaker for the children’s hospital, and facilities manager Klaus Beekmann.

To obtain such an award a hospital must implement a whole series of measures. In addition to environmentally-sound materials and equipment, the hospital has heating and cooling ceilings in the specialist department rooms and patient bedrooms, a thicker layer of insulation in the shell of the building, triple-glazed windows, lighting which operates with daylight detection control and a proprioceptive path in the small park in front of the children’s hospital.

“Now, after 1963, Wertingen has a new hospital again” was the way Georg Winter, Federal State MP, used to describe one of his “most pleasant duties”, namely the formal opening ceremony of the third phase of Wertingen District Hospital built at a cost of almost ten million Euros. After many years of conversion work and restructuring measures in three phases, the third phase, the new Ward Block Part 2, was completed after a building time

of 18 months. The building rounds off the compact circular shape of the hospital.

The new building, with its double-loaded ground plan, was set on the existing base of the old ward and extended by a further axis. It has 65 beds in 27 modern patient rooms. The entrance hall was re-designed to include a central office and patient admissions.

At the official opening of the new ICU at Wolfratshausen District Hospital, senior consultant Dr. Josef Orthuber, summed up the impact of the new development with the words: “We now have state-of-the-art technology.” He also had only praise for the shorter paths to the department of anaesthetics and to the operating theatres.

The new interdisciplinary intensive care ward was opened for use after a construction time of one year. The number of beds was increased

from eight to ten and the work was carried out whilst the hospital was running normally. In these ten beds, patients can be optimally cared for with the help of ultra-modern technology ensuring a high standard of hygiene. There is also a shock room for the initial treatment of emergency cases, a spacious central support point, and a lounge. A pleasing design, supported by warm colours, creates an atmosphere in which not only patients and their families but also the staff can feel comfortable.

One of the most modern operating centres in Germany was opened at the Schön-Klinik in Vogtareuth. On its 12 000 m² of space the new hospital, built at a cost of almost 50 million Euros, houses, amongst other things, twelve operating theatres, including the adjacent rooms, and an intensive care and ventilation unit. In the basement is the central sterilisation area which also caters for the Schön hospitals in Bad Aibling and Harthausen.

The layout of the centre follows the optimised hospital processes which were developed in consultation with the doctors and nursing staff and which are designed to create more efficient workflows. In addition to an optimal environment, the new rooms are designed to do full justice to the needs of patients and staff.

Report in the radio and TV broadcaster Bayerischer Rundfunk

Three years after the first spade was dug, the keys to the new operating centre at the Schön Klinik in Vogtareuth were handed over on time. The centre has an intensive care and a ventilation ward. “We have definitely struck lucky” said Tim Guderjahn, the head at Vogtareuth. In the new four-storey building the internal infrastructure and the operating processes have been optimised. It was not always easy to carry out the process of optimisation. “The conditions for implementing our ideas were that the building should be innovative both architecturally and from the point of view of saving energy” said Mr. Guderjahn.

For example, inside the building, in the areas where patients wait for their operations, the architect has integrated into the ceilings bright areas of glass with images of cherry blossom in front of a blue sky.

The external appearance of the new building is characterised by a screen façade of horizontal elements made of wooden slats running across the two upper storeys. They are mounted on a steel substructure and match the types of rooms situated behind them. The screen enables people to see through but also gives the façade a unified appearance and provides an extra protection against the sun and eyes.

Over 100 guests were present at the Evangelisches Krankenhaus Duisburg Nord on Tuesday to celebrate both the topping-out ceremony for a new administration building and the laying of the foundation stone for the new cardiology centre to be built behind it. The sponsor, the Klinikum Niederrhein, is investing around 130 million Euros in the hospital. In several construction phases the Fahrner Strasse site will be converted and extended. In his welcoming address the chairman of the supervisory board of the sponsor, Prof. Dr. Ekkehard Schulz, said that, on completion of the building work, “you will go a

long way before you find a cardiovascular and head centre in North Rhine-Westphalia, even in Germany, as good as this.”
Part of the project is the building of a cardiac centre which would then move from Meiderich because there is no room for expansion there. Meiderich will then close when the new building opens in 2018. This new building will house 5 additional operating theatres with an adjoining intensive care area, a central sterile supplies department, a central laboratory, a cardiology technology department, the central admissions department and paediatric cardiology.

Today saw the official opening of the “new” main branch of the Sparkasse Vest on Herzogswall in Recklinghausen. The building, comprising a base and an office tower, was built by Professor Manfred Ludes in the 1960s and has now been completely modernised over a 3-year period.
In the first construction phase the

office tower was completely stripped to its foundation walls, converted and given an aluminium and glass façade. The base, housing the customer hall and the events rooms, was then refurbished and modernised. The base also has a new façade consisting of two-story window elements and sandstone panelling.

The Klinikum am Bruderwald in Bamberg is to be extended to take a further 123 beds. The existing situation of three patients to a room is to be reduced to two in a room. To realise this, a fourth ward tower with approximately 9,000 m² of useable space is planned.

The costs are currently estimated to be around 51.5 million Euros. The Sozialstiftung Bamberg tendered for the general planning via an EU-wide tender under the regulations governing the award of professional services and LUDES was awarded the contract.

The Klinikum Bogenhausen in Munich is to be extended and modernised and LUDES has been awarded the contract after an EU-wide tender held according to the regulations governing the award of professional services. Following the completion of a new building with a central operating department, central emergency admissions and the complete range of intensive medical

capacities, the existing structure is to be completely modernised in four quadrants within a manageable time frame.
The completion of the whole project at a total cost of over 300 million Euros is scheduled for 2024, by which time the number of beds is expected to have increased from 951 to 1019.

The jubilee celebrations to mark the 125th anniversary of the Bergmannsheil Hospital in Bochum, the oldest hospital for work-related accidents in the world, took place with a fantastic festive program during which the Mayor of Bochum, Dr. Ottilie Scholz, and the Federal Minister for Health, Hermann Gröhe, addressed the numerous guests.
Bergmannsheil opened in 1890 as a hospital for the treatment and rehabilitation of injured miners and at that time was able to accommodate 100 patients. Today, Bergmannsheil is a teaching hospital for the University of Bochum, is an employer’s liability insurance hospital and treats over 80,000 in and out-patients.

LUDES has been looking after the building development of the hospital now for almost 40 years.

Click on the photo below to play the image film “125 Jahre Bergmannsheil” (125 Years’ Bergmannsheil).

The opening of the new operating centre at the Klinikum am Bruderwald was officially celebrated today with the symbolic handing over of the keys. The 33.6 million Euro compact operating centre with 10 theatres and ancillary side rooms has been built on a former laundry building. All operating theatres, work places and patient areas are filled with natural daylight. The central sterile supplies department is located

beneath the operating centre and is therefore only a short distance away.
At the opening, Bavarian Health Minister, Melanie Huml, emphasised: “Bamberg now has one of the most modern operating centres in Bavaria, affording ideal conditions for surgical intervention for patients and ideal facilities and working conditions for staff.”

LUDES was awarded the contract following an EU-wide tender for conversion and modernisation work at the Klinik für Berufskrankheiten (a hospital for work-related diseases) in Bad Reichenhall.

Two ward blocks, built in different periods, are to be converted and modernised whilst remaining fully operative. Building work will be done in several phases and is due for completion in 2017.

Construction work for the extension and modernisation at the Salzdahlumer Strasse site of the Klinikum Braunschweig began with the ground-breaking ceremony. This is the second building phase designed to reduce the hospital’s current four sites to two. Concentrating on two sites and the formation of medical centres will guarantee the long-term future of the hospital thanks to synergies, optimised procedures, and shorter distances – all of which help to reduce costs.
The new building will contain a

stroke unit, an ENT Department and a dialysis centre. The amount of space available for nursing care at the paediatric hospital – which is to be transferred to Salzdahlumer Strasse – for paediatric surgery and intensive and intermediate care will be significantly increased. The new building will also house a representative central entrance hall with reception counters, a patient’s café and service shops. The new building is scheduled for completion in 2017. The existing hospital building will then be converted and this final phase is scheduled for completion in 2021.

LUDES Architekten – Ingenieure GmbH opened a new office in Duisburg on 15.09.2014. The office is centrally located and can be reached on foot from Duisburg main railway station.

LUDES Architekten – Ingenieure GmbH
Fürstenstraße 18
47051 Duisburg
Fon +49 203 363518-0
duisburg@ludes.net

On the completion of Europe’s largest integrated operating centre on the Grosshadern Campus of Munich University Hospital, the invited guests heard specialist talks from those concerned with the project and were treated to guided tours of the hospital departments so that they could gain an impression of the 14,600 m2 new building.

This surgical emergency department with 36 theatres, 70 intensive care beds, an interdisciplinary emergency admissions department and a central sterile supplies department with 1,000 sterilisation units StU, fully meets the complex demands necessary for the best possible patient care and for research and teaching, and sets the standard for modern, top-quality patient care.

After a five-year construction period the new hospital building at HELIOS Klinikum Krefeld is now complete, at a cost of 200 million Euros. This was LUDES Berlin’s biggest building project. Distances in the building have been shortened and where the ten-storey tower block stood only just over two years ago there is now a generous green area and a two-storey central building.

The opening ceremony was attended by 250 guests, including Ulf Schneider, Board Chairman at the Fresenius Group to which the Helios-Klinikgruppe belongs. He once again emphasised the quality of the new building as he told the guests: “You now have a highly modern hospital capable of providing first-rate medicine.”

The weather was fine and sunny for the topping out ceremony at the 54-million Euro new hospital building at Crailsheim. In addition to the many invited guests, such as Jürgen Lämmle, the Baden-Württemberg Head of the Ministry of Social Affairs, Rudolf Michl, Mayor of Crailsheim and many more politicians from the outlying areas around Crailsheim, the ceremony was attended by many hospital staff and interested townspeople.

There atmosphere was very positive all round, a fact which was underlined by Gerhard Bauer, the Area Chief Administrator. He was relieved that everything had gone without a hitch so far and that time and cost constraints had been kept.
The five-storey building will be ready for occupation at the end of 2015. After the departments have moved into the new building, there will be a second building phase, during which parts of the old building will be renovated at a cost of around four million Euros.

The new LVR complex on the premises of Düsseldorf University Hospital (Universitätsklinikum Düsseldorf) has been opened following a building time of 19 months. It comprises two general psychiatric and one geronto-psychiatric day hospital each with its own out-patient department. The

new building is designed to offer 61 day centre places and has been built at a cost of 10.4 million Euros. It has been realised with funds from the Second Economic Stimulus Package and is designed as an environmentally-friendly passive house.

After a period of four years we have now vacated Marsstrasse and have moved into a larger office nearby, in Arnulfstrasse. This speaks for the great success of our company in the south of Germany together with the strong growth of our Munich branch.

While the numbers of the switchboard and fax remain unchanged, most of the staff have a new direct dialling number.

LUDES Architekten – Ingenieure GmbH
Arnulfstraße 37
80636 München

Fon +49 89 9292777-0
Fax +49 89 9292777-29
muenchen@ludes.net

An open day marked the official start of the new theatre wing at Wesel Protestant Hospital (Ev. Krankenhaus, Wesel). The new building, costing 12.5 million Euros and comprising 4000 square metres, has more than seven operating theatres equipped with state-of-the-art technology; two of these theatres will be used for out-patient operations.

A light, friendly construction which lets in a lot of daylight and with good views onto green areas from all of the operating theatres ensure the best possible working conditions. A recovery room with an artificial sky installation under the ceiling offers the patient a pleasant environment directly after his operation.

Together with Teamplan, its partner for operative organisational planning, LUDES has been awarded the contract for consultancy services at Aachen University Hospital. The project was the subject of an EU-wide tender. LUDES and Teamplan will advise a needs-based, cost-efficient organisation for the operative aspects and will also master plan the building work.

The scope of the consultancy services is the entire hospital including the research and teaching areas. In addition to commercial expertise the project will be expected to draw up a final recommendatory report for the short, medium and long-term building work and, if required, the budgetary documents.

The second phase of building started at Bamberg hospital following a symbolic handing over of keys. The re-constructed fifth floor and the extensions to floors 3 and 4 provide room for a new internistic intensive unit including intermediate care, a chest pain unit and the expansion of emergency admissions.

Xaver Frauenknecht, from the board of the Bamberg Social Foundation (Sozialstiftung Bamberg), was particularly happy that the building was completed not only within the ambitious time slot but also within the original budget of 12.7 million Euros.

The public had the opportunity to take a look at the newly-built “House 14” at Wöllershof District Hospital during an “Open Day”. After a building time of over two years the first patients will be admitted at the beginning of April.

This 18-million-Euro building, a modern, high-performance hospital with 144 beds, is to be the centrepiece of the clinical psychiatric care for the people of the northern Upper Palatinate (Oberpfalz).

LUDES’ bid has been accepted for the planning and supervision (building phases 5 – 9) of the first stage of the partial replacement building at the Städtisches Klinikum München, Klinikum Harlaching (Munich City Hospital, Harlaching Clinic). Tenders had been invited from all over Europe. Construction of the partial replacement of the maximum care hospital is divided

into two parts and the northern part (1. BA) is to be built first. This five-storey main building houses the operating department and the mother, child and family centre.

Phases 1 – 4 were carried out by the Munich architects Schuster Pechtold Schmidt, who had also won the tender for the work in 2004.

After a two-year building period the new psychiatric hospital at Wöllershof District Hospital [Bezirkskrankenhaus Wöllershof] was opened with the official handover of the keys. The building (cost: 19 million Euros) has 128 beds specially designed to cater for the demands of modern psychiatry and is to be the focal new building was itself a factor in the healing process, providing

both staff and patients with plenty of open spaces and generous distances. point for clinical psychiatric care in the northern Upper Palatinate region. The hospital’s medical director, Dr. Heribert Fleischmann, said that the architecture of the new building was itself a factor in the healing process, providing both staff and patients with plenty of open spaces and generous distances.

Following several weeks of digging out foundations, pouring in the base and putting up some new walls, the foundation stone was ceremoniously laid today for the new building at Bremen-Mitte Hospital. The new building is a partial replacement of the old one and will be situated behind the department of Internal Medicine. Among those attending the ceremony were Karoline Linnert, Finance Senator to the Privy Council, Joachim Schuster, Chairman of the Supervisory

Board at Bremen-Mitte, and Jutta Dernedde, Medical Director of Gesundheit Nord, a group of four hospitals in the region.

The new building will have upwards of 750 beds. With short ways between departments and state-of-the-art medical furnishings and fittings, the new part will be both patient-friendly and effective, and will make its contribution to reducing costs while offering optimal patient care.

At Augsburg Hospital the topping out ceremony for the new children’s clinic (Mutter-Kind-Zentrum Schwaben) has taken place just 14 months after the ground-breaking ceremony. In the new building, which has about 153 patient rooms and which has been designed as a “green building”, medical aspects have been pushed into the background “so that the young patients can feel a little bit as though they are at home”, according to Professor Dr.

Michael C. Frühwald, Senior Consultant at Klinik I. In the new building the various departments are interconnected much more rationally, with shorter distances between them, so that there is a direct link between delivery room, maternity ward and high dependency unit. “Wall to wall, that is the key”, maintains Mr. Schmidtke, a member of the hospital board, “in this way we achieve not only a spatial link but also we link them in our minds.”

At the official opening of the new medical centre at St. Elisabeth’s Hospital in Gütersloh, the hospital’s managing director Dr. Stephan Pantenburg emphasised the benefits of positioning many areas closely together in the same complex. The new centre is directly linked up to the existing hospital and this means that cost-intensive areas such as endoscopy, the operating theatres, and radiology machines, can be used jointly by the doctors and therapists at

Carrée and by the medical staff at the hospital.

The new building was completed in two years at a cost of about 14 million Euros. The green panels of the windows and the white plaster façade pick up and re-interpret some of the stylistic elements of the hospital building and the whole is completed by a generously-dimensioned glass entrance.

The topping out ceremony for the new obstetrics and gynaecology clinic at the Ostalbklinikum in Aalen has taken place. According to local authority chief Klaus Pavel, the new clinic is an important stepping stone on the way to developing the hospital into a full-blown health centre.

The new clinic, built at a cost of 18 million Euros, is to be opened in

November 2013. A laboratory is being built in the basement and the remaining three storeys will contain an HDU for premature babies, a maternity ward, and an oncology ward. The clinic has 8,000m² of space and can house 60 beds, with another 13 for the premature babies. The new building will be connected to the main hospital via a three-storey walkway.

The new air rescue centre at Augsburg Hospital has been formally opened. Built at a cost of 5.9 million Euros, it covers a total area of 2,270 m2, has a diameter of 27 meters and a landing pad big enough for two, maximum three, helicopters. It is the highest air rescue centre in Germany.

The centre, situated at about 58 meters above sea level, took almost a year to build. Each year there will be about 2,500 take-offs

and landings of the ADAC rescue helicopter “Christoph 40”. Thanks to the elevated position of the landing pad, residents will benefit from reduced noise levels. Emergency patients, too, will benefit from the new landing pad. In contrast to the old landing area near the hospital, the distance which the patient must travel from helicopter to trauma room has been considerable shortened, a factor which could help save lives.

 At Garmisch-Partenkirchen Hospital the first of three Stage 7 building phases involving extensive renovation and extension work been officially opened. Stage 7 is the last stage in the overall building program and carries with it a total investment of approx. 50 million Euros. This first phase comprises a new mother/child centre, the first part of the ward renovation, a palliative ward, and improved rooms in the fifth floor for those

patients who want take advantage of some extra services.

The special challenge of this project was to carry out the work without disturbing the normal day-to-day running of the hospital.

During his tour of the building work, Dr. Marcel Huber, Bavarian health minister, was full of praise for the work achieved thus far, saying that it meant “a further step up in the quality of the treatment on offer”.

Work has begun on the third building phase at Bruderwald Hospital in Bamberg. The work centres on the construction of a new central area for the operating theatres and for the sterilisation rooms. The conversion work has been accomplished partly by adding an extra storey and partly by converting existing areas and all this was done without disturbing the hospital routine. 

The aim is to create a modern, compact, operations area with short paths and with structures oriented towards the processes which actually take place. The circular shape of the 10 operating theatres around a central holding area/recovery room and a central induction area and with separate zones for the instruments will optimise the processes. This will result in the efficient use of spatial resources and favourable process costs.

The Schön Klinik Roseneck is up and running again after approx. 12 months during which the rooms were completely renovated.

Part of the building was pulled down and the remaining buildings, which date from 4 different decades and which were built in different styles, were given an unified appearance. The building,

previously labyrinthine in appearance, has been converted into a compact, functioning complex.

The specialist hospital, situated north of Rosenheim, will treat patients with psychological and psychosomatic illnesses such as depression and eating disorders.

 LUDES has been awarded the contract for the “renovation, conversion and fire protection of Block K at Dresden-Friedrichstadt Hospital” following a VOF European-wide tendering process. The building, which
is under a preservation order, will be converted and modernised to accommodate an operating theatre (downstream), a nursing ward, and several rooms for doctors, secretarial services, offices, changing rooms, technician areas, etc. In addition to providing an effective functional and spatial

environment, particular emphasis will be placed on a design which optimises the use of energy and which allows for the use of energy-saving technical equipment.

The topping out ceremony for the new children’s orthopaedic centre at the Schön Klinik in Vogtareuth has been celebrated. With innovative architectonic solutions such as parent accommodation which opens out to the children’s rooms or which can be closed off, the hospital provides an environment in which the parents can be with their seriously-ill child twenty-four hours a day. The new two-storey building

will form the centre of what is to be a child and family-friendly hospital. The lighting and blinds can be controlled by eye movement. The corridors will be extra-wide so as to allow the children to play or to provide the family with a retreat. The new building will cost 12 million Euros and will be designed in such a way as to provide the many children who have to spend months on end in hospital with a little piece of home.

Building work on the new operating centre at the Schön Hospital in Vogtareuth started about a year ago and the topping out ceremony for the centre, which will be built at a cost of 48 million Euros, was held in October. The new building will house ten modern operating theatres with ancillary rooms and technical areas and an intensive care and respiratory care unit. There will also be a cafeteria for staff with a large panorama window and the whole project is expected to be completed in 2015.

In his speech, Dieter Schön, Managing Director and owner of the hospital, said: “We are not only

constructing a new building, we are also completely re-organising our structures and processes. Instead of having three areas for operations as now, we will have only the one single operating centre. This will result in a tangible improvement to the medical provision we can offer. Thanks to the logical organisation and the better use of space, our staff will soon have much more time for our patients.”

A topping out ceremony for the “East Extension” building project (total cost about 70 million Euros) has been held at Murnau Accident Hospital, a clinic for people who have suffered accidents at their workplace. The outer shell of the building is now complete. The extension has become necessary because the existing building is just too small to cater for the

needs of the hospital. In particular, the departments of Neurosurgery, Neurology, and the Institute for Biomechanics will benefit greatly from the increased space. The extension is due for completion in the second half of 2015 and will further optimise the medical care for the people of Murnau and the surrounding district.

The topping out ceremony has taken place at Bremen-Mitte Hospital, the site of one of the biggest hospital building projects in Germany, involving as it does some major rebuilding work. The ceremony took place one year after the foundation stone was laid and shortly before the outer shell was finished. On an area of about six hectares behind Haus 2 (a listed building) on St. Jürgen-Strasse, – which, amongst other things, will once again become the main entrance area – there will be a

new hospital with around 750 beds, day clinics, and dialysis places.

The compact new building with process-oriented structures and short ways will comprise about 49,000 m2 of usable space. Completion is set for 2016 and the total cost will be 265 million Euros. “Bremen is demonstrating that a large building project can be finished cost-effectively and on time”, said Jens Böhrnsen, Mayor of Bremen, taking a swipe at other big cities such as Stuttgart, Hamburg and Berlin.

In 2 building phases the central operating area on the third floor of Augsburg Hospital is being converted at a cost of 30 million Euros. The work has been so organised that work in the rooms can carry on as normal. Phase I is now completed and Phase 2 will follow in 2015. Then the hospital will have 18 operating theatres in the central operating area. The new structure will also improve process quality and efficiency. Natural daylight and glass walls will create a pleasant atmosphere for staff and patients alike.

When hospital board member Alexander Schmidtke saw the new ultra-modern operating theatres, he said it seemed as if “the future had arrived now”. This impression is heightened by the ultra-modern technology: during an operation X-rays can be taken in the hybrid operating theatres. A robot takes the machine to the correct place with one click of a button. According to Edgar Mayr, Senior Consultant in Accident Surgery, this made operations easier, especially with cardiac and vascular operations.

Today marked the official opening of the new centrepiece at Bergmannsheil University Hospital. In three years two new blocks have been built right in the centre of the hospital whilst the hospital was still running – a real organisational and logistical challenge. Amongst other things the new rooms contain the Accident and Emergency Department, Radiology, and a high-tech operating centre with ancillary rooms. The new wards have the most modern intensive care facilities. The new structure means that transport and communication ways are shorter and this greatly benefits critical emergency cases. In addition, the

new facilities mean that all emergencies can be treated using an interdisciplinary approach. In front of 200 invited guests, Johannes Schmitz, Bergmannsheil Managing Director said: “The new rooms, our new “heart”, mean that we can offer patient care at the highest level. We have created larger and more efficient structures, have improved the internal logistics and have introduced the most modern medical technology”.
A second building phase is planned for the next three years which will substantially increase the present 20,000 m2 gross floor space.

The ground-breaking ceremony for Phase I of a new Crailsheim Hospital building took place in front of around 100 invited guests and a large number of the hospital staff and patients. The ceremony was carried out by 19 representatives from the town, the district, and the federal state. The new building will cost 54 million Euros and Phase I will be ready for occupation at the end of 2015. The

new building is the largest building project in the district and is designed to ensure quality medical care for Crailsheim and the surrounding area for years to come. For Crailsheim’s Lord Mayor Rudolf Michl the new hospital will also help to establish Crailsheim as a place where people will want to come and live and companies to invest.