Marina Miceli
Europe Press Office,London
The National Paediatric Hospital project is the most significant capital investment in healthcare ever undertaken in Ireland and will bring together the three existing children's hospitals in the country.
Designed to cater for the full spectrum of patients, the 120,000m² and seven-storey hospital will include 473 beds, 21 operating theaters, clinical examination rooms, outpatients and emergency departments, support laboratories and administration spaces, expansive concourse, roof gardens, a helicopter landing pad and over 4,800 individual spaces.
The New Children's Hospital will be developed on a campus shared with St James's Hospital in Dublin and will bring together the three existing children's hospitals in the country: Temple Street Children's University Hospital, Our Lady's Children's Hospital in Crumlin, and the National Children's Hospital in Tallaght.
We are delivering mechanical and electrical engineering services that will provide resilient, energy efficient and sustainable systems to support the delivery of clinical excellence. Our transport planning services will help to design spaces and systems suitable for patients, families and staff, with way finding and orientation simplified and different areas clearly distinguishable from each other. AGVs (automated goods vehicles) will be used for the first time in an Irish hospital to manage movement of goods and waste. The hospital will have a converged ICT network which will allow full digital operation through systems integration.
