Nexus Medical Campus
/2024
Research labs, inpatient wards, and community amenities link via a daylight-soaked atrium street lined with botanical plantings, destigmatising hospital visits. Demountable façade cassettes anticipate future wings, while vibration-sensitive lab floors and a subterranean thermal labyrinth underpin the campus’s ambition to deliver fossil-fuel-free healthcare.
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Timescales
The 45,000-square-metre Phase One development was delivered in 30 months through an aggressive design-assist model embedding key trade contractors from early schematic stages.
The expansive atrium ETFE roof was craned into place early, allowing botanical plantings and soil microbiomes to establish months before the first patients arrived.
Building-systems commissioning overlapped intensive staff training, with simulated emergency drills scheduled throughout the final 60-day run-up to opening day.
Objectives
Prioritise holistic healing by giving every inpatient room a garden view and installing tunable circadian lighting that mirrors natural daylight cycles.
Meet stringent 2.5-micron vibration criteria in research labs and achieve a campus-wide fossil-fuel-free target by 2035 through upgradeable PV façade cassettes.
Open the multi-storey atrium as a publicly accessible shortcut, seamlessly integrating community life with healthcare services and fostering transparency.
Materials
A hybrid concrete-and-steel frame carries lightweight aluminium façade cassettes pre-insulated with high-performance aerogel blankets.
Demountable partition track systems enable rapid ward re-configuration, and the atrium roof is formed by a triple-layer ETFE cushion array with integrated shading frit.
A subterranean thermal labyrinth pre-conditions incoming ventilation air, flattening mechanical energy peaks and boosting overall HVAC efficiency.
Challenges
Maintaining infection-control zones during adjacent construction required rigorously monitored negative-pressure regimes and temporary anterooms for staff movement.
Late-issued furniture standards triggered a headwall redesign mid-build, and global lab chiller shortages forced sourcing aerospace-grade substitutes.
Extensive multi-disciplinary user-group workshops lengthened early design phases but greatly reduced late-stage change orders and rework.