Engineering Children's Hospitals

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Children’s hospitals are among the most complex of all healthcare buildings to design. They need to provide a range of specialist pediatric services in one place and care for babies all the way through to young people approaching adulthood. Every project is unique, but we never lose sight of the overall goal: creating safe, supportive, efficient environments for young people, their families and the people who care for them.

Our healthcare engineers, consultants and advisors are proud to have worked on some of the best children’s healthcare facilities. From a state-of-the-art health park for one of Europe’s leading children’s hospitals, to the world’s first hospital to achieve a LEED Platinum accreditation for sustainability.

"Being ready for the next generation in pediatric care means addressing two key topics: resiliency and flexibility. It means ensuring that the healthcare facility is equipped to deliver new treatments, technologies and models of care, and engaging with staff, patients and their families to provide a truly holistic experience."

Kevin Cassidy
Global Healthcare Lead

What makes a world-class children’s hospital?

Queen Silvia’s Children’s Hospital, Sweden

Positive experiences

To design the very best children’s hospitals, we think differently about how to create a nurturing environment for everyone who uses them. From the parents of premature babies, to children keen to explore their surroundings, to teenagers seeking more independence.

Healing, safe environments

Patient safety is at the heart of every decision we take, and never more so than when we’re designing healthcare facilities for children. Our specialist teams integrate hygiene and infection control with secure-by-design principles and systems such as childproof fixtures and fittings, to protect patients, staff and families.

Glasgow Royal Hospital for Children, UK

Dell Children’s Medical Center Of Central Texas

Efficiency and performance

Children’s hospitals are highly-serviced, power-hungry buildings – with many young lives depending on the constant functioning of essential systems. But that doesn’t mean they can’t be sustainable and cost-effective to operate and maintain. As specialists in environmental design as well as healthcare engineering, we’ve delivered some of the world’s most energy and water-efficient hospitals.

Future-ready facilities

Advances in pediatric care bring new hope for young patients and their families, and our teams draw on the latest available research to understand what makes a place a healing environment for children. By collaborating with young patients, we create inspiring, imaginative spaces from a child’s eye view, designed to accommodate a growing range of highly specialized equipment and smart building technologies.