Aarhus University Hospital (AUH) - laboratories. C.F. Møller. Photo: Thomas Mølvig

Aarhus University Hospital (AUH) - laboratories

The new laboratories for pathology and clinical biochemistry at the Aarhus University Hospital (AUH) offer employees the latest technical facilities in a physical environment with an emphasis on ingress of daylight, exclusion of noise from the open laboratory areas and support for communication and interaction amongst employees.
 Aarhus University Hospital (AUH) - laboratories. C.F. Møller. Photo: Thomas Mølvig
Facts

Client

Region Midtjylland

Address

Aarhus, Denmark

Size

13,500 m²

Year

2013-2016

Client consultant

NIRAS A/S

Engineering

Rambøll Danmark, Alectia, Søren Jensen Rådgivende Ingeniørfirma

Architect

C.F. Møller Architects in cooperation with Cubo Akitekter

Landscape

Schønherr Landskab

These special laboratories are located in the hospital's central laboratory building on the first, second and third floors. Analyses of blood, secretion and tissue samples are critical to the rapid diagnosis of patients, so in order to minimise the transportation and analysis time a substantial proportion of the samples are delivered using pneumatic-tube systems and are analysed using an automated process.

The special laboratories are as far as possible adapted in accordance with a uniform principle comprising three zones. Towards the facade the laboratory set-up is a zone primarily comprising quiet and noisy rooms, shielded against the other laboratory areas by means of sliding doors, with the positioning ensuring generous ingress of daylight.

On both sides of the internal walkways there are zones generally featuring open laboratory set-ups, to ensure efficient use of the area and to support direct communication amongst the staff. The open laboratory areas are as a rule kept free of noisy equipment, which is instead positioned in a zone inside the building's central technical areas.

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