The construction of Hong Kong Children’s Hospital (HKCH) commenced in 2013 and will commence service in 2018. It is the first hospital in Hong Kong specialized to provide family and child-centric tertiary care to children with serious and life-threatening illness. The overall design objective was to create a non-institutional, home-like, child-friendly and comfortable environment that provides the best patient-centered clinical practice to cater the needs of patients and families.
With approximately site area of 22,000m2 and total construction area of 168,000m2, it comprises of two 11-storey towers with total of 468 beds for in-patient and day-patient services, 2-storey basement for carpark and 2 link bridges connecting the towers, in which one of them spanning about 63.1m at 9/F is the Hong Kong’s longest link bridges over 46m height above ground level. The facility will also house research and training facilities, integrated rehabilitation centre, operating theatres, clinical laboratories, research laboratories and hospital data center, also education, training, in-patient services and ambulatory care services.
Given that the vibration-sensitive medical devices are found in the hospital, during the design stage, the required vibration limit of related devices was considered by the project engineering team. The floor vibration assessment was also conducted to improve the building structure and enhance the stability of devices for satisfaction to the standard of medical service.
