CUF Porto Hospital

The complexity and extent of this construction cannot be underestimated, as the work involved a large number of tasks, including land preparation and earthworks for the general layout of the building, the execution of foundations and structures, civil construction, masonry, interior and façade cladding, carpentry, metalwork, painting, general finishing, water and sewage installations, firefighting equipment, electrical installations and equipment, telecommunications, surveillance, sound networks and equipment, TV and video equipment, HVAC, smoke extraction and air conditioning energy systems, lifts, freight lifts, industrial compressed air networks, medical gas and aspiration networks, fuel gas networks, kitchen equipment, refrigeration installations, laundry, disinfection and sterilisation equipment, installation of fixed medical equipment, centralised technical management, solid waste treatment, primary effluent disposal and treatment, signage, integrated security, energy, thermal and acoustic efficiency measures and exterior arrangements and landscaping. 

This hospital consists of 5 floors below ground and 7 floors above ground.   
 
Floor 0 (ground floor) is for general access, permanent care, day hospital, physiotherapy, imaging, oncology/chemotherapy and clinical pathology. The 1st floor houses the following services: recovery, surgery room, ICU (intensive care unit), outpatient surgery, special invasive tests, angiography, clinical pathology laboratory and pathological anatomy. The 2nd floor is the technical floor for housing equipment, which makes the transition between the upper floors for in-patients and the lower floors.   

The 3rd, 4th and 5th floors house the inpatient units. The 6th floor is made up of the canteen, library, chapel, auditorium, meeting rooms and the area for installing technical infrastructure equipment. 

 
 
Basements 5, 4 and 3 are used for car parking (500 spaces). Basement 3 also houses a mini WWTP (model RHEBAU AQUASTAR 100 from Passavante) with a treatment capacity of 15 m3 /day, 6kg CB05/day, 100 Hab.Eq., 150 l/Hab.eq./day, with biological treatment using the activated sludge process.   

Basement 2 is used for car parking, supply and maintenance services, a mortuary and changing rooms. Basement 1 houses outpatient services, special examinations, kitchen, pharmacy and a waste centre. 

Precast concrete panels were applied to the exterior of the façades. A simple reinforced concrete panel, natural colour and 12 cm thick, was also supplied and applied to this façade, on the outside of the reinforced concrete structure, with thermal insulation consisting of 4 to 6 cm of extruded polystyrene, with the panel acting as an exterior wall.