Construction Department management team

Strategic planning

The Strategic Planning section within the Construction Department is developing Charité’s visions for the future with respect to urban planning. Nadine Mauritz and her team work with interdisciplinary planning partners to devise outstanding conceptual approaches that integrate urban planning with open space planning, architecture, ecology and functionality. These proposals for urban planning and architecture reflect the Charité’s global excellence in research and medical provision. At the same time, they engage constructively with its unique historical and architectural heritage. Based on the future plans for the campuses, the team prepares feasibility studies and develops the brief for individual construction developments which form the basis for content-related and financial decisions.

Construction Management

The Construction Management department coordinates all construction projects at Charité, particularly those carried out in collaboration with the State of Berlin. Robert Tholl’s interdisciplinary team oversees every phase of the construction project from planning through to realisation. The architects and engineers in Construction Management coordinate the work of the planning offices, oversee the planning stages from preliminary designs to construction documentation, award construction contracts and ensure that the buildings are completed on time. The work demands constant navigation of conflicting priorities: preserving the historic structures of what are mostly listed buildings while meeting the challenges posed by creating premises for high-performance medical care of the future.

Major projects

Large-scale projects with a project volume of more than 60 million euros are a key component of ‘Charité 2030 – Rethinking Health’. The vision for Charité involves establishing a unique profile for each of its clinical sites in Berlin, thereby laying the foundations for architecturally restructuring the individual campuses. Matthias Schmidt and his team are responsible for coordinating these highly complex projects, from the planning phase through to realisation. These projects are the driving force behind the ‘Healthcare City Berlin 2030’ initiative. One example is the cardiovascular centre Deutsches Herzzentrum der Charité (DHZC).

Special Projects and New Funding Models

Special projects with highly specialized uses and demanding medical-technical equipment ensure the Charité's performance as a full-service provider as well as its role in cutting-edge scientific research and university teaching. They thus form a central component of the structural alignment for the strategy "Charité 2030 - We think health in a new way". One example is the establishment of the new Pharmaceutical Center with production areas for the university pharmacy, as well as radiopharmacy and cell therapy, all of which are subject to GMP standards. For this purpose, new funding models must be developed and established. Clemens Schiffer and his team lead and coordinate the planning and realization of these highly complex projects.

Technology and Infrastructure

The Technology and Infrastructure team of the Construction division (GB Bau) supports the strategic development of all Charité campuses through future-oriented and resilient infrastructure concepts. It also accompanies all construction projects – from planning to construction and the demanding commissioning phase. The aim is to reconcile the technical conditions of the historically grown campus facilities, including the largely listed buildings, with sustainability goals and the ever-increasing technical requirements of top-level medical care and cutting-edge university research. Dominik Nähring’s team works closely with colleagues of the Construction division and external offices. Intensive collaboration with Charité’s Facility Management (CFM), who are responsible for operations, is also essential for the success of our projects.

Project Management Office

The Project Management Office (PMO) in the Construction Department is responsible for managing all State of Berlin budgets required for the realisation of Charité’s construction projects – from concept through to implementation. Bianca Kegler and her team coordinate the budget available to the Construction Department for investing in new infrastructure, technology, structural engineering and renovations – in close consultation with the architects and engineers responsible. The central tasks of the PMO are procurement and accounting as well as controlling the construction budgets. These functions form the overarching management tool for ensuring transparent and targeted reporting for our stakeholders. Moreover, the PMO acts as a central interface for all investment matters – interacting with other departments within Charité as well as with the Senate – and guarantees that information is exchanged cooperatively.