Press Release
COPENHAGEN, MAY2023, [XX. MONAT 2018]
Automatic door solutions from GEZE provide barrier-free accessibility at the new City Emergency in Oslo
This year, in Oslo a new large city emergency center is ready to be implemented in the daily pace of the capital city. A complete new and modern health care building next to the Aker Hospital. The project has included demolition of existing buildings, construction of a total of 26000 new m2, a complete renewing of the technical infrastructure, update of the road system around the hospital area and new parking house for the site.
The Oslo City Emergency Center will become a workplace for many people, and many patients are expected to come in and out the building every day. The high paced environment demands for a good planning of infrastructure, as well as process flow between examination, operation and diagnostic rooms. Not least the corridors need to be spacy, hygienic and easy to navigate in. The Emergency Center is planned with an observation post, operating theaters and recovery rooms, triage room, interview room, around 100 examination/treatment places, as well as radiological diagnostic rooms.
The main contractor on the project is Oslobygg KF who hired Skanska as partner on the building project. With great experience the building entrepreneur knows what it takes to take on a project like this. The project has taken years and at Skanska’s local office on site, the staff has been in a constant move to coordinate, plan and execute the next step in the large building project.
In the fall of 2022, while the building was still being finished, GEZE’s Sales Rep, Vegard Hagen met Skanska’s Production Manager Hans Christian Mogen for a tour of the inspiring building site
“The project started in 2019 with diminishing of existing buildings. Hereafter, the start of building the new buildings was in 2020 and 3 year later. In 2023 the building is expected to be completed and fully functioning,” Skanska’s Production Manager Hans Christian explains. Hans Christian has been responsible for all doors in the large new building.
Seamless cooperation
During the visit, the hallways are quiet with almost no people. Pallets are still standing here and there, with products that are still to be mounted, and covering plastic are still visible on doors, windows and floors. Unfinished empty rooms and a few technicians working on their
part of this very large project, are to be seen on each store in the large building. Even though, the finishing details of most parts are still missing, it is, however, not difficult to imagine what will soon become the center of a very busy and most often intense, daily urge to help, save and support a lot of people in central Oslo.
“It is key to a facility like this, that the logistics is working seamlessly. A challenge in planning has been the radiological diagnostic rooms, which have to be completely covered in lead,” Hans Christian explains. “GEZE has provided us with door solutions that meet the extended needs of this special situation. The automatic doors are implemented in a lead frame and with lead inside the door leaf. The safety is secured and the automatic drives are connected to full access control as well”. This created a safe work environment for both health care staff and for patients,” he continues.
An exciting project to be part of “Being part of this project has been truly amazing,“ says Hallvard Banken, Country Manager GEZE Norway. “We have been able to get into the project at an early stage, cooperating closely with Skanska. With the high expertise of the local GEZE team, we have created customized solutions and been onsite every day to secure the installation in time. Also, we have had the great fortune to find local partners for special solutions needed in health care buildings like this one. We are truly happy to be able to contribute to the health care buildings in Oslo,“ tells Hallvard Banken.
Throughout the installation period of approximately half a year, GEZE’s installation crew with Jan Kristiansen as GEZE Project Manager, has been onsite almost every day. “It has been a very interesting project to work on. The communication with Skanska has been clear and efficient. It is important for us at GEZE that we can operate freely in the building and be close to all decicions on the doors. That’s why we work on site on the installations daily, “ tells Jan Kristiansen, Sales Engineer GEZE Norway.
“Working with GEZE on this project has been absolutely great. The GEZE Project Manager and Technicians on site has had a perfect overview and truly shown full understanding of what has been requested in all cases. The ability to bring the right solutions has been outstanding,” says Skanska’s Production Manager Hans Christian Mogen
A total of 60 door drives are supplied and installed. To each radiological diagnostic room, a special customized solutions is mounted. To each operation room, the automatic sliding door is fit with a GEZE Perlan solutions. To provide the necessary hygienic environment the drives are covered with a special customized cover in aluminum. Each door is operated with security lock, making sure that only approved staff has access to the specific room. To the examination rooms, GEZE has supplied automatic doors with the ECdrive T2. The doors fit perfectly into the new clean design on the Emergency Center and the safety sensor GC339 makes sure the door is always safe to use, no matter the mobility of the patient
Additional product information: www.geze.no
The large and heavy lead doors to the radiological diagnostic rooms are also handled automatic with full security.
Products:
34 GEZE Perlan automatic sliding door with softstop and customized alluminium cover
19 GEZE ECdrive T2 Door automatic for sliding doors
2 GEZE Powerdrive PL sliding door automatic for heavy doors
5 customized automatic door solutions for the special led doors.
All was supplied and delivered from GEZE with complete doors and door frames.