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New hospital finished by 2032 circuits. Estimated at €867 million, the site could
ultimately cost €1 billion.

High Quality Environmental Standard Hospital
It is one of the public’s most high-anticipated construction projects: The building, designed collaboratively by Natacha
the new hospital will be operational from 2026. Morin Innocenti, AIA Associés, AIA Ingénierie,
AECOM and Tractebel Engineering, has been
It is one of the Principality’s flagship projects, of the current hospital but the way the beds are certified as High uality Environmental Standard,

the first phase of which will be delivered in 2025, distributed will be more suited to developments still something fairly rare for a large hospital

with the first patients being admitted to the New in medicine, the types of treatment used and complex. There will be greenery on the roofs and
Princess Grace Hospital (NCHPG) in 2026. This patients’ needs. There will be 492 beds and terraces and balconies will also have plants on
phase will give way to construction of a new 22 operating theatres, many of which will be them, as will the façades of the car parks. As
hospital, above the new car park, housing 60% hybrid and multifunctional,” explains Benoîte de well as sunshields protecting it from the heat,
of the wards and rooms, with works due to be Sevelinges; and Sévérine Canis-Froidefond adds, the building will rely on reusable energy, with
finished by 2032. “With the health crisis, the challenge of being solar panels on the roof to heat the residential

There has been talk of this new hospital in able to provide the local pool of 125,000 people water supply and high-performance, seawater
Monaco for the past 30 years. It has been the with state-of-the-art care and infrastructure is heat pumps that can simultaneously supply both
subject of numerous design competitions and even more glaring.» When the Covid-19 pandemic hot and cold water.

pitches, finally resulting in the choice of in situ occurred, the hospital management also took
construction, on the site it has traditionally the opportunity to work with urban planners The good news is that the demolition of the
occupied since 1902. “The NCHPG will be a and architects on the necessary adaptations current hospital will create a land reserve.
building fitted with all the necessary equipment of the hospital layout to deal with “a potentially Why not build a nursing home there to stay in

for high-performance energy and with anti- ten-times-more-powerful Covid-19 epidemic the health theme, next to the NCHPG and the
earthquake measures, as well as being totally with even more subtle forms of contamination”, Rainier III Gerontology Centre? No decision has
digitalised. Overall capacity will be similar to that resulting in modifi cations to the air handling been made as yet.

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