Healthcare facilities
Global expertise with a local presence – Offering healthcare design services with innovative and sustainable engineering solutions. Delivering world-class expertise and international best practices to enhance future healthcare estates.
Partner of Choice
Ramboll is the perfect partner of choice for designing and delivering engineering solutions to any healthcare estate – existing or new. We offer a complete and multidisciplinary advisory package within healthcare facility planning and design.
Our dedicated global healthcare team consists of specialists to plan and design all stages of a healthcare facility project from feasibility through to post occupation/operational evaluation. Our team collaborate cross borders to ensure that we draw on the best experience, expertise to deliver holistic solutions focused on world class clinical excellence.
Our local knowledge and presence across different sectors enable us to deliver integrated solutions that lead to resilient communities, hospital estates and health systems; achieving a step towards ‘population health’ and shifting the focus from reactive treatments to proactive wellness.
300 dedicated healthcare experts combine local presence in 35 countries with state-of-the-art global healthcare expertise to build and refurbish inspiring healthcare facilities.
Healthcare engineering for the future
Ramboll is dedicated to being a frontrunner in healthcare engineering. Our approach to designing and delivering engineering solutions involves understanding and anticipating the demands and innovations required to create hospitals for the decades to come.
Hospitals are dynamic entities that must future-proof to adapt to global trends and technological advancements. We design hospitals equipped with cutting-edge technology to address currently untreatable diseases. Embracing AI will enhance efficiency and impact both facility design and patient treatment. Ramboll is the leading global expert in hospital logistics and automation.
Our specialists simulate and anticipate clinical and non-clinical flows. We deploy new technologies and logistical solutions where appropriate to enhance operational efficiencies and enable staff to dedicate more time to patient care.
Sustainable and patient centric
Our sustainability heritage instills patient wellbeing central to our design of healthcare facilities by using evidence-based planning, development of sustainable construction materials, energy-saving and regenerative technologies, and impact assessments that considers whole lifecycle effects.
This ensures that our healthcare facilities enhance patient wellbeing, provide best value for healthcare operators during the lifecycle of the facilities, and have minimal effect on nature and the environment.
We are dedicated to meet UN 17 goals for Sustainable Development.
“From the very beginning, Ramboll has been guided by a strong humanistic and social vision to help rebuild societies and improve conditions for people and the environment. This fundamental purpose remains the same today, reflected in our mission, vision, values, and commitments."
What we offer the healthcare sector
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Redefine hospital planning, design & coordination
At Ramboll, we collaborate with our partners to redefine healthcare facilities to ensure sustainable world leading clinical care is delivered in our projects.
Our approach to design is driven by data, ensuring precision at every step. We leverage advanced analytics to create hospitals that are optimized for performance, sustainability, and cost-effectiveness.
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Hospital logistics & automation
Automated systems and robots are important tools that can improve a hospital’s care and efficiency. Our global hospital logistics experts use simulation and data modelling to improve operational flows, reduce costs and free up resources for patient care.
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Decarbonise for net zero
Achieving net zero carbon on healthcare estates is a journey that requires careful planning. Our approach to this journey is through phased implementation plans with cost effective and realistic technical solutions appropriate for your estate. We develop these through data analytics and clear knowledge of how healthcare facilities are utilised.
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Masterplanning for future patients need
Anticipating the future patient’s needs and understanding technology trends in the healthcare sector are essential when designing healthcare facilities. Ramboll’s experience with hospital projects gives us a holistic perspective that drives a client-centric process. Further, we integrate our healthcare expertise and experience from around the world into our solutions with a sustainable and patient-centric focus.
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Reusing and repurposing existing healthcare building assets
Healthcare estates are complex and 24/7 facilities with a constant need of further development. Our team are experts to reuse and repurpose existing building assets and optimizes difficult phasing to deliver better facilities for future patient needs and technology evolution.
We always consider future reuse of building components in the design of healthcare estates.
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Resilient healthcare
Our global team alongside our colleagues in other sectors are at the forefront of resilient healthcare design including resilience to energy shortages, military conflicts and virtual attacks.
Quick facts
FEATURED PROJECTS
Engineering services for a sustainable, state-of-the-art hospital designed to take care of the whole child. The hospital embeds genomic and psychological research alongside clinical expertise in physical and mental child health.
The clover-shaped hospital pavilion embraces its rural landscapes to help patients heal. The 115,000 sqm hospital is based on the concept of "healing architecture" and is at the centre of an extensive urban development project in Hillerød, Denmark.
The New Karolinska Solna is one of the world’s biggest and most ambitious hospital projects, with innovative design solutions that aim to bring researchers and practitioners together in new ways to create a world-class research environment. We have designed more than 75% of the buildings on the 320,000 m² hospital compound.
Structural, mechanical, and geotechnical engineering for a major specialist paediatric hospital for the client Foundation for New Children’s Hospital.
FEATURED PROJECTS
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Contact Ramboll in the United Kingdom
Ramboll is a global architecture, engineering and consultancy company. Ramboll has several offices across the UK.
Ulf Hedman
Global Spearhead Director, Healthcare
Buildings
Kevin Smith
Healthcare Spearhead Leader