Klinikum Braunschweig receives modular control building

(Photo: DECKER ARCHITECTS & ENGINEERS)

The Braunschweig Clinic will integrate the Pulmonary Center from St. Vincent Hospital in Braunschweig in the future and therefore requires new spatial capacities. On December 24, 2018, Cadolto received the order to plan and realize a new control building in modular construction for one of the largest hospitals in northern Germany.

The project is being planned jointly with DECKER ARCHITECTS & ENGINEERS, Braunschweig, and will be constructed on Salzdahlumer Street, at the largest of the three locations of the Braunschweig Clinic. In the future, the three-story modular building with a gross floor area of 6,836 m² will house the pulmonology (lung medicine) department with a capacity of 89 beds. Additionally, during the renovation work for a new general ward, the new building will be used as a temporary facility.

The modules for the control building are produced in Cadolto's workshops—parallel to the foundation work on site—and then transported to the construction site by trucks. Finally, the new building will be connected to the existing hospital building via a connecting corridor. Due to the high degree of prefabrication of the modules, significant time can be saved compared to conventional construction methods. Thanks to the shortened construction time on site and the associated minimal construction noise, the hospital operations can continue uninterrupted.