On 23 May, a beautiful and functional new hospital, bringing together somatic and child and adolescent psychiatry, opened its doors to patients, relatives and staff. The Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solbjerg´s gave a speech in which she congratulated Bergen for the new building: "23 May 2017 is a great day for [...]
On 23 May, a beautiful and functional new hospital, bringing together somatic and child and adolescent psychiatry, opened its doors to patients, relatives and staff. The Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solbjerg´s gave a speech in which she congratulated Bergen for the new building: "23 May 2017 is a great day for Bergen, the West and Norway. Congratulations on a new milestone for the health of the youngest among us. Congratulations on the first building step of the new children's and youth hospital. "In addition, our building has been praised by the developer and by the users, as a well-functioning and future-proof hospital. Our project manager colleague from PKA, Nina Kielland, also gave a speech and handed over the key to the building. After six years of intense construction activity, the first phase of the children's and youth hospital in Bergen is now complete. It has been a good process where both schedule and budget have been respected and we are not least proud of the result - a functional and safe hospital where the architecture forms the framework for a healing environment.
Construction FACTS | Haukeland Children's and Youth Hospital- The project is the largest construction project on Haukeland in more than 30 years (total 79,000 m²)- Stage one, which is now completed, is 29,000 m² and stage two is 50,000 m²- The total construction sum is 5.4 billion nrk.- The construction of the first stage started in 2011 and is completed in 2017- The total building contains besides general somatics also the departments; mental health, habilitation service and energy centre for children and youth- Functions like swimming pool, sports hall etc. Phase two (also designed by KHR Architecture together with our partners Rambøll Arkitekter and PKA Arkitekter (both from Trondheim) is expected to be completed in 2022/2023- When the overall building is completed, all treatment of children and adolescents will be concentrated at Haukeland Sjukehus Read Prime Minister Erna Solbjerg's speechRead more about the opening of BUS
