Broadway Malyan has been recently assigned a £73 million project to design a new building for the National Heart Centre, a one-stop facility with the largest heart specialists group in Singapore.
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The building
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The focus of the design of the building will be on the people. It will ensure that the needs of individuals are met at the Centre in their everyday working, living, playing and healing lives; be it be the patients, doctors or visitors. The design inculcates modular building methods, so that it leaves a margin for alteration, both internally as well as externally, in case of future growth.
The visitors and patients will enter the ten-story building via a spacious, naturally lit concourse area. The first six floors of the building will contain facilities for day surgery, operating theaters, clinics, laboratories, radiology, and retail centers. The remaining levels, seven to ten, will be reserved for non-patient areas, like medical records, research laboratories, staff training, and administrative offices.
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Green Features
The building is sure to score high in terms of being green.
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It will adopt various green building features, technologies and innovations to accomplish better performance in energy efficiency, water usage, use of recycled and reusable materials, indoor environmental quality and environmental management. Examples include:
• The passive solar strategy for the institutional front, which reduces heat emission and direct glare and sunlight into the building, while introducing diffuse daylight condition and cutting overall energy consumption.
• The use of environment friendly building elements that are energy efficient in fabrication, self-cleansing and long-lasting.
• Floating green gardens will provide social connectivity and accelerate the healing process by offering patients healthy doses of natural light, ventilation, and views.
• The plants also act as carbon filters and help reduce the heat island effect.
The 10-level building will complete by end 2012, and operational in early 2013.
Via: Inhabitat
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