North America's first acute care hospital made of wood builds the ground with the 97,000 square meter quinte health print Prince Edward Memorial Hospital serves as a new model for health care. According to HDR, the architect behind the new hospital of Picton, Ontario, which will start the installation of mass wood this autumn, and shows that mass wood is faster and more precise than steel and construction.
“It is about compensating for the environment and social sustainability in the sense that mass wood in healthcare is also human comfort and environmental responsibility” from embodied carbon about traditional health construction.
Wood Central understands that switching from steel and concrete for wood (built by M Sullivan & Son) a player for the booming North American health industry will surpass $ 1 trillion in the next five years. This, said HDR: Open “for visitors and inpatient patients alike.
“The new Prince Edward County Memorial Hospital is more than a health facility” Every piece of wood will be proof of our collective commitment to improve local health care for today and future generations. “
“The transition from an older, outdated building to this new innovative all-mass wood structure (will make it possible) to fulfill the latest health standards and to offer a safer, more resistant space that both our community and the thousands of visitors Year serves for every part. “
According to Wood Central, the new building, which is to be opened in mid -2027, takes place last year that a growing number of psychiatrists and mental health experts use mass wood is important that patients connect with nature.
“Designs of the nurse rating era-die straight corridore, the creepy doors and the feeling of not knowing where they are going. All replaced by universal design principles that work, ”reported Wood Central, whereby NBBJ led the indictment with his new“ Ohana ”clinic, a new California facility of 55,600 square meters for assembly health.
“When people come into emergency rooms when they have to be operated on, they expect them to be passive care recipients in sterile rooms,” she said Susan SwickExecutive Director of the Ohana Center for Child and Youth Behavior Health in Monterey, California. “If you come to a room for mental treatment, these are not passive treatments … It is important that we involve the curiosity and the feeling of a child's agency instead of devotion”.
