Uster Hospital

The project comprises seven subprojects, which are being implemented in the context of the fourth construction stage of the Uster hospital. It covers various tasks: review and optimizing of the preliminary projects established by an earlier team of planners, especially with regard to hospital-specific matters; new design of the restaurant and garden wing (bed house); issuing of general contractor invitations to bid; majority of construction planning; supervision of general contractor work. The services and fee contract was based on the SIA Service Model.

The client’s requirements for the general planner were: optimizing of processes and space conditions; identification of possible cost reduction potential; client-friendly and promotionally effective design of the building areas accessible to clients.

The general planner was expected to be experienced in hospital projects in order to optimize and further develop a partly existing project and to meet time, cost and quality targets: The planner was selected on the basis of a public invitation to bid.

The stage-by-stage construction work was carried out without interrupting hospital operations. This project was very typical of present-day hospital projects. Burckhardt+Partner AG Bern has the required expertise to handle such challenges, a fact amply demonstrated by a number of references.