AZ Vesalius Bilzen

The project was delivered under a Design, Build & Maintain contract. The building comprises an underground car park and a ground floor with both flexible and fixed consultation rooms, as well as a radiology department. The first floor accommodates the pre-operative unit, two operating theatres, the recovery area and the out-of-hours GP service.

For the load-bearing structure, an in-situ concrete structure with columns arranged on a grid was selected, allowing flexibility in the positioning of the partition walls. The floor slabs were constructed in post-tensioned concrete. On the second floor, a steel structure accommodates the technical plant room.

Flexibility was also taken into account in the internal layout. The building features plasterboard partition walls, allowing the various spaces to be configured flexibly. The two operating theatres were constructed as cleanrooms and tailored to the specific technical requirements of their function.