Building Better Healthcare Award for Best International Design 2012 - International Healthcare Award – two consecutive winnings - C.F. Møller. Photo: Jørgen True
7.11.2012

International Healthcare Award – two consecutive winnings

For the second consecutive time, the prestigious Building Better Healthcare Award for Best International Design goes to C.F. Møller Architects. Three years ago, the award was won for the Akershus University Hospital in Oslo, and this time it is the Emergency and Infectious Diseases Unit SUS in Malmö, Sweden which has been declared the winner.
The UK Building Better Healthcare Award for Best International Design is intended to reward an outstanding project that contributes to new thinking and is relevant to the UK's future experience of delivering healthcare. The win underlines C.F. Møller Architects global leading position in healthcare design. The emergency and infectious diseases unit in Malmö provides with its cylindrical shape a new landmark for the Malmö University Hospital. But at the same time the shape minimizes the risk of spreading diseases: Patients enter the isolation ward via an airlock from the walkway that surrounds the entire building. The exterior lifts are used exclusively by patients of the infectious diseases unit and for hospital waste, while the interior lifts are used to transport staff, supplies and clean materials. Each storey can be divided into sealed-off smaller units in the event of an epidemic. The wards - which have been laid out like "slices of pie" around the periphery of the building - benefit from direct natural light. As the cylindrical building has a central, open atrium, the "inner-circle" rooms also benefit from natural light. The design is the result of a 1st prize in an international competition won by C.F. Møller Architects in collaboration with SAMARK Arkitektur & Design in 2006 and inaugurated in 2011. The Building Better Healthcare Awards have been recognising, rewarding and celebrating best practice and world-class architecture, design, facilities and estates management in the healthcare built environment for a the past 15 years. Open to building, improvement and design projects which demonstrate all-round excellence, the BBH Awards celebrate the achievements of individuals and teams working in either the public or private sectors. The 2012 awards attracted a record 200 entries across a range of categories. The winners where revealed at a ceremony in London November 7.

 

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