Construction phase 1: NIKO
million euros in costs
square meter usable area
beds
operating rooms
The groundbreaking ceremony on 3 December 2024 marked the start of construction work on the site in front of ward building 1 of the UMG. Intensive planning has been underway since September 2022, with excavators due to arrive in January 2025. Construction is scheduled for completion in 2029, with UMG clinical operations due to begin by 2030.
Most of the hospital care will be based in NIKO, the new name for construction phase one, selected from creative suggestions submitted by future users of the building. NIKO stands for emergency room (= Notaufnahme), intensive care (= Intensivmedizin), nursing (= Krankenpflege), and surgical center (= Operationszentrum) – the medical areas covered by construction phase 1.
Functional areas
- A central emergency room with an admission ward
- Intensive care units (ICU and IMC) and general care wards
- A central operating theatre and rooms for outpatient surgery
- Cardiac catheterisation laboratories
- Diagnostic imaging
- Sterile supply (AEMP)
- Various outpatient clinics (polyclinics)
- Two helicopter landing pads
Highlight Digitalisation: Modern, digitalised university medicine
- Digital room occupancy management system
- Asset tracking in hospitals (digital tracking of medical devices, aids and beds)
- Mobile hospital robots with driverless transport systems
- Digital patient and referrer portal
- Digital infotainment
- Automated storage solutions for sterile supplies
Highlight Sustainability: Climate-friendly university medicine
- Increased thermal insulation
- Low-CO₂ concrete
- Green roofs
- Use of heat pumps
- Use of a geothermal system for heat supply
- Large-scale photovoltaic systems
- Heat recovery systems in various technical areas
- District heating supply for peak load requirements
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First insights into the construction of Phase 1
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