Kiev Hospital appointment
21 Jan 2008
Following a competition win at the end of last year against a strong field
of seven competitors from Germany, Holland, Italy, UK, Ukraine, and USA,
bdpgroupe6 is now appointed to design a 250 bed children’s hospital
in Kiev, Ukraine.
The All Ukrainian Health Protection Centre for Mothers and Children (The
Children’s Hospital of the Future) will be a multipurpose child treatment
and prevention institution with highly specialised and technologically
advanced departments.
Neil Cadenhead, Director of bdpgroupe6, said “The objective is to
build a children’s hospital with the most modern medical equipment
and to organise a clinic facility that provides specialised, high tech
medical care. Furthermore, as architects and engineers, we have the ability
to design it very sustainably. This appointment confirms that there is
a demand for the very best of European hospital design in the international
arena.”
The site for the hospital is in a stunning area of forest at the edge
of Kiev. bdpgroupe6 has designed a highly sustainable building which is
sympathetic to the site. The new building separates the treatment and
diagnostic areas from the ward areas and buries the former block beneath
a ‘green’ roof so that it merges with the forest floor. The
ward blocks are inspired by the Ukrainian tradition of the ‘dacha
in the woods’, re-interpreted within a modernist aesthetic.
The client’s intention is that the building of this up-to-date healthcare
institution, of a European standard, will help to focus human and material
resources, implement highly efficient technology and ensure high level
of treatment and diagnostics. The new hospital will combine all the necessary
components of a children’s hospital: general paediatrics and surgery,
oncology, oncohematology, and a peritoneal centre. It is also intended
to set up a research and training centre for paediatric doctors which
will help to integrate Ukraine into the world medical community.
bdggroupe6 are acting as architects and structural and environmental engineers
and are supported by EC Harris as health planners, quantity surveyors
and equipment advisors, and Budova Center in Kiev - architects engineers
and quantity surveyors.
Details
Location – Kiev
Total area – 10 hectares
Number of beds – 250
Boarding – 50 beds
Number of floors – 5-6
Hospital type – a multi-purpose children’s hospital of the 4th
level
5 surgery blocks
Day in-patient facility
Reference centre for certain types of treatment and diagnostic assistance
Construction starts in 2007
Centre begins operation in 2009
Tbilisi State University’s Republican Clinical Hospital, Georgia
bdpgroupe6
BDP, with Groupe6, our associate practice in France, are the largest healthcare
architects in Europe and are regularly in the BD World Architecture top
10 healthcare architects. We currently have healthcare buildings
in design and construction of a value in excess US $4,527m in addition
to a large international commercial portfolio. The firms are growing and
ambitious and have 12 offices in France, the UK and overseas.
Our formalised association as bdpgroupe6 is to undertake international
healthcare commissions and are actively pursuing opportunities throughout
the world, often using local collaborators.
Tbilisi
hospital building : BDP
Background to Project
On 16 March 2006, Kateryna Yuschenko, the Head of the Supervisory Board
for the Ukraine 3000 International Charitable Foundation and wife of the
president of Ukraine, laid a capsule at the site of the future hospital
which will be known as The All-Ukrainian Mother and Child Healthcare Centre.
She said: “Today we make our first step on the way to our greatest
dream – building a modern hospital for Ukrainian children, the best
of its kind in Europe.”
The background to the project is that the economic, social, environmental
and other difficulties faced by Ukraine in recent years have badly affected
the health of the young particularly evident in the number of newborn
children with serious chronic pathologies. In the country the level of
oncohematological and oncological diseases and child disability is, in
the view of the Charitable Foundation, unacceptably high; indeed child
mortality in Ukraine has increased in the last 2 years.
The Charitable Foundation considers that the health of children and teenagers
should be the focus of attention of society today and in the future. In
the field of motherhood and childhood, healthcare authorities and institutions
should aim efforts at applying effective know-how in health care management
and the best of clinical knowledge and skill to address the problems children
face, giving newborns in particular a healthy start in their lives.
The purpose of hospital will therefore be to provide highly qualified
in-patient and outpatient diagnostics and treatment to children from all
over the country by using the best knowledge in the field. Ultimately
the project’s goal is to improve the health of children and mothers
as an important component of Ukraine’s social and economic potential.
Kiev
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