INNOVATIVE AND SUSTAINABLE CONSTRUCTION METHODS FROM THE NETHERLANDS

About Wiegerinck – architecture urban planning
Wiegerinck Architecture Urban Planning counts, with more than sixty employees, as one of the largest architecture agencies in the Netherlands. We have made our name primarily by designing hospitals and health care institutions, as well as the high-profile buildings at the Netherlands’ largest zoo and award-winning utility buildings.Surprising, flexible and sustainable designs are Wiegerinck’s key themes. Wiegerinck helps to find solutions to architectural, urban planning and strategic problems.

Facts and figures:
Founded: 1948
Company size: 63 employees / 9,700,000 U.S. $ Gross Revenue
Countries: Europe
Markets: Healthcare facilities, childcare buildings, sustainability

Experience:

• Spaarne Hospital (Hoofddorp; The Netherlands;  56,000 m2;  USD 115,000,000) Key aspects: urban planning, flexibility, real estate value, logistics design, healing environment
• Flevo Hospital (Almere; The Netherlands; 35,000 m2 ; USD 110,000,000) Key aspects: renovation/extension, inner city building site, flexibility
• Maasstad Hospital (Rotterdam; The Netherlands; 84,000 m2; USD 190,000,000) Key aspects: urban planning, precast construction, fast track building, expandability, flexibility
• Gelre Ziekenhuis (Zutphen;  The Netherlands; 31,000 m2; € 85,000,000) Key Aspects: flexibility, fast track design, real estate value, fast track building

Innovations from Holland
Wiegerinck’s key design aspects: patient oriented, flexibility, sustainability, integrated design and fast tracking,

Living, working, caring, learning and relaxing are Wiegerinck’s key themes. Surprising, flexible, sustainable designs. Wiegerinck helps to find solutions to architectural, urban planning and strategic problems.

Our healthcare buildings form the backdrop against which patient oriented medical care unfolds. Buildings that can change with the times. Buildings that can assume functions and abandon them again. For us, this is one of the elements that constitute sustainability. Sometimes employing revolutionary, innovative solutions but always with an eye for timeless quality. In all our designs, we always look for the interaction between architecture and principles of sustainability and corporate social responsibility. We design an area or a building in a way that balances ecological (planet), economic (profit) and social (people) interests, for both current and future generations.Our experience in the health care sector is characterised by the ability to translate the complicated specifications of complex organisations into spatially robust, functional and transparent buildings.

The experience of patients and medical experts forms the starting point of every design. A properly designed health care facility contributes to the healing process of the patient and work performance of medical professionals.

An integrated approach is the guiding principle in everything that Wiegerinck does. We are a member of IWA, the Dutch foundation for Integrally Working Architecture Agencies. The far-reaching integration of installation technology and constructive disciplines leads to smart buildings. This approach also creates the possibility to increase the speed of the design and building process.

We have national and international experience with integral contracting. From building team to Public Private Partnership, our approach is always one of ‘togetherness’ with the relevant parties and experts.

Hospitals and hospital premises require an increasingly strategic approach in terms of property. When redeveloping these sites, we look for new concepts and endeavour to create space for complementary functions together with investors, developers and other partners.

Wiegerinck is looking for clients and partners who share our vision on health care and health care real estate and who want to cooperate towards sustainable medical environments.

Future
Wiegerinck is looking for partners who want to cooperate in the development if high LEED-quoted sustainable health care facilities. These buildings must realize a healing environment in which medical experts can perform at optimal level towards professional patient treatment.