Client
Helsebygg Midt-Norge, for St Olav's Hospital and NTNU
Function
University Hospital
Discipline
Project group management, architect
Function and architecture
St. Olav's Hospital was a unique university hospital when it was completed in 2014. It is the only university hospital separated into a defined quarter plan adapted to the urban landscape. The centres are connected by culverts under the terrain and by bridges on the 1st floor, where the treatment areas are located, and on the 2nd floor, containing research areas. This has made it possible to connect large common areas across centres.
The emergency heart-lung centre follows the principle of the general centre: poly clinic, lobby, cafeteria, sampling and circulation area on the ground floor, surgery on the 1st floor with bridge connection to the movement centre and the gastro centre. Education area for NTNU on the 2nd floor and patient wards on the 3rd, 4th and 5th floor.
The medical specialties in the emergency heart-lung centre are:
- ambulance and emergency ward, immediate assistance/emergency services
- surgery, cardiothoracic surgery, cardio surgery
- imaging diagnostics
- main intensive care wards, heavy and light monitoring
- sterile centre for the entire hospital
- main kitchen for the entire hospital
- EMCC centre
- helipad on the roof
Activities in the central emergency ward in the north wing (emergency ward) are organised on a vertical axis with two large elevators. There is a helipad on the roof, and in the basement, there is an ambulance and emergency department. Elevators give quick access to operating rooms, intensive care ward and heavy monitoring.
The emergency ward is constructed in white concrete with a double set of windows and details in natural anodised aluminium. This provides powerful sound attenuation considering the helipad on the roof, where large Sea King machines may land. The emergency ward (intermunicipal) and the orthopaedic injury outpatient clinic have been given a red entrance area which is lit during the evening and night in order to clarify the function in the urban landscape. (The emergency ward has later moved to other premises on the island).
Execution
Design-build contract with collaboration, based on contractor competition with a target price for the building.
