| Category | Green Certification | Environmental Building Analysis |
|---|---|
| Year | 2018 |
| Size | 69,000 (site area), 18,700sqm (landscape area) |
Projects
Sengkang General Hospital
World Class Sustainable Healthcare
The best designs are those that clearly recognise their purpose and place their end-users first. From retail to hospitality, the same principle applies across all built environments. And so when we were tasked with the Sengkang General & Community Hospital (SKGH) project, we took Thomas Frist’s lead: Take care of the patient and everything else will follow.
The 245,000 m2 hospital was designed to integrate a general hospital, a community hospital, and specialised outpatient clinics into one seamless and comprehensive medical facility.
Details
Enhancing the indoor environment is at the core of what we do and was the basis of every design decision. Extensive research, not least by the World Green Building Council, has shown a sustainable hospital building that optimises indoor environmental quality can improve patient recovery rates by 20%.
CFD analysis was carried out on the naturally ventilated wards to track the movement of stale air and determine the time it spent within the spaces. This was a critical step in ensuring air quality and patient recovery rates.
Visual comfort was considered a critical factor for both patient and staff wellbeing. Detailed internal glare analysis was performed for various façade options to determine an optimal solution that balanced visual comfort with solar shading and overall daylight illuminance.
The analysis enabled areas of stagnant air to be determined within each space, which was used to inform the natural ventilation design and positioning of wall mounted fans to mix the air.
A significant piece of work was undertaken in optimising the holistic performance of the façade. The design challenge was to maximise natural daylight levels, whilst maintaining exceptional levels of visual comfort (glare), thermal comfort, and overall façade thermal performance, to minimise cooling loads.
For the naturally ventilated wards within the hospital, we undertook a high-resolution CFD study that analysed wind and temperature gradient induced air flow within the space. The effectiveness of different openable window options was evaluated, with results enabling the selection of an optimal window design that maximised air movement, thereby enhancing the thermal comfort and air quality.
Specialist Services
Integrated services provided for this project.
AWARDS
| 2020 |
Sustainable Cities and Human Settlements Awards 2020 (SCAHSA), Global Green Model Community (Building), Winner Sengkang General and Community Hospitals |
|---|---|
| 2019 |
China Real Estate Design Awards (Silver) Sengkang General and Community Hospitals |
| 2019 |
Singapore Landscape Architecture Awards Silver Sengkang General and Community Hospitals |