{"id":33652,"date":"2022-07-01T13:29:39","date_gmt":"2022-07-01T10:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sweco.fi\/?post_type=showroom_cpt&p=33652"},"modified":"2022-12-05T18:35:16","modified_gmt":"2022-12-05T16:35:16","slug":"ratamokeskus-hospital","status":"publish","type":"showroom_cpt","link":"https:\/\/www.sweco.fi\/en\/projects\/ratamokeskus-hospital\/","title":{"rendered":"Ratamokeskus Hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ratamokeskus Hospital (Kouvola)<\/p>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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Project management and construction, including cost accounting, moisture control coordination, hospital specialist consultation and risk management<\/p>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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20 678 brm\u00b2, 100 vastaanottohuonetta, 115 sairaalaosastopaikkaa.<\/p>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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Ratamokeskus Hospital is the new health and social services centre of northern Kymenlaakso<\/h1>\n

The long-awaited hospital Ratamokeskus was completed near an old garrison area in Kotiharju, Kouvola, at the beginning of the year. Health clinic services and special medical care will both be provided under the centre\u2019s roof. Sweco was involved in the project management and construction of the multi-stage project.<\/p>\n

In January 2022, a new health and social services centre of the future, serving more than 180,000 local residents in Kymenlaakso, was completed in Kouvola. It will improve the accessibility of health and wellbeing services in seven different municipalities. Special medical care and clinic services will both be available in the centre, as well as round-the-clock emergency services. Ratamokeskus will also provide many of the mental health, rehabilitation and substance abuse services in the Kouvola region.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe first patients will come to the dental clinic at the end of April, and the first outpatient clinics will be opened a few weeks after that,\u201d says project manager Kai Heiskanen<\/strong> from Kymsote-Kiinteist\u00f6t Oy. Ratamokeskus will become the workplace for about 500 healthcare professionals, many of whom have been able to visit the premises in advance. \u201cWe have received plenty of positive feedback on the brightness and comfort of the new facilities. And new is always new.\u201d<\/p>\n

Happy ending for the multi-stage project<\/h4>\n

The planning process of Ratamokeskus was first launched as early on as in 2015, when the purpose was to build a Kouvola city hospital in the area. However, the project came to a halt due to the health and social services reform and was then relaunched by Kymsote-Kiinteist\u00f6t Oy in 2017. Sweco\u2019s contractor consultant Ville Harviainen<\/strong> remembers well the challenging foundation conditions, which required piling. \u201cThe earthworks were technically challenging, as the moist and humus-rich soil required reinforcement to stabilise it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Along the way, the construction phase of the two-stage project implementation was changed from a total contract to a collaborative project management contract. \u201cThis ensured that there would be sufficient contract bids,\u201d Harviainen says. The contractor also had the chance to suggest changes to the plans to achieve cost savings and improve efficiency. \u201cThe different changes then required a great deal of reviewing, up until the building\u2019s handover.\u201d<\/p>\n

The hospital was finally completed quickly and within a reasonable budget. \u201cWe had to work extremely hard to finish the hospital within 3.5 years after the implementation planning was started,\u201d Heiskanen states. The construction was started already during the planning stages, and piling began even before the construction contractor was chosen. \u201cThis allowed us to make use of every month.\u201d<\/p>\n

Health and social services centre designed together with the users<\/h4>\n

Ratamokeskus is a large hospital, both in size and functionally, even though all \u2018hot\u2019 services have been centralised to Kotka, instead of Kouvola. The reception rooms are on the first two floors and inpatient wards on the third and fourth floors. The entire fifth floor is dedicated to building technology. However, a modern health and social services centre needs much more than just advanced technology and automation systems.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo Kymsote, the patient is always the number one priority,\u201d Harviainen says. Building a hospital requires adhering to a wide range of regulations and standards, but the project\u2019s baseline was the functional needs of patients and personnel alike. \u201cPatient safety was a special focus area.\u201d<\/p>\n

A balance between the different perspectives was found through cooperation. \u201cWe were in contact with the client\u2019s project manager on a nearly daily basis,\u201d Harviainen says. User representatives delivered information from the doctors in charge and other staff members to the designers and the developer. \u201cThis made user communications simple and made our work at project management much easier.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kai Heiskanen is also satisfied with the cooperation. \u201cNo one can do these projects alone \u2013 the contracting consultant and the client have to work well together.\u201d<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n\n

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