Archive for shaping the future

IT Data Center II

Digitalisation for the medical care of the future

Digitalisation is a central component in the design of future-oriented healthcare, research and teaching. A modern, well-equipped IT infrastructure creates the conditions for the implementation of important strategic objectives. These include the development of digitalised university medicine, the acceleration of translation and the profiling of regional and supra-regional supply networks. 

In order to meet the growing demands for computing power in medicine, a new cross-site IT data center was set up at CCM campus. This is part of a comprehensive overhaul of Charité’s IT infrastructure – in order to continue to enable top performance at an international level in the future.

Infrastructure South

Healing people – protecting the climate

CVK's overall urban development plan envisages campus renewal and expansion over the next 30 years. This is where even more high-tech buildings for research and healthcare will be built in the future. In order to create the technical conditions, Charité is planning a comprehensive renewal of the technical infrastructure. One first step is the upgrading of the southern technical infrastructure, so that the southern construction site can be supplied with all the media required for first-class medicine, such as cold, heat, electricity, IT computing capacity, etc., with the new German Heart Center at Charité. In addition, the use of forward-looking technologies and embedding in an overall energy and media strategy can make a significant contribution towards a carbon-neutral campus. The media supply systems will be renewed and expanded and the supply lines restructured and relocated. One infrastructure node will provide space for state-of-the-art technical power and cooling systems, as well as the control room and IT data center and others. This complex task must be carried out while the existing ones remain operational on the campus.

Charité Cross Over Building

Lighthouse of science

The new teaching and research center of the Medical Faculty “CharitéCrossOver” (CCO) was created on a traditional foundation between the historic children’s clinic and the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology. For the first time, the innovative building brings together under one roof important basic subjects of the faculty, the NeuroCure cluster of excellence and teaching, in particular the science subjects of medical studies.

CharitéCrossOver was the first project to be created as part of the “Masterplan Charité”. The CCO is therefore the first visible building block of campus renewal at CCM.

Helicopter landing pad

At Campus Benjamin Franklin, it became necessary to move the existing special helicopter landing site to the south due to changes in air laws. The landing area was extended beyond the Paul Schwarz Promenade and the Teltow Canal embankment. This ensures that helicopters can take off and land in accordance with the prescribed flight operating procedures, thereby increasing flight safety. The additional parking spaces are intended for helicopters flying medication or similar from all over Germany to the hospital in Steglitz.

Emergency operations are carried out daily with the rescue helicopter of the non-profit ADAC Air Rescue, rescue personnel and Charité emergency doctors. In recent years, “Christoph 31” has seen more than 3,500 deployments per year in some cases.

The new elevated platform is 63.70 m long. Pedestrians have been provided with a canopy along the Teltow Canal. Additional social and rest areas have been created for helicopter and hangar personnel in the hangar and in the main building.

The rescue helicopter was moved to Schönefeld during the construction project and returned to its previous location in spring 2020.

Charité Campus-Klinik Süd (CCK Süd)

The construction project to refurbish a total of 10 wards (SPS I+II+III) is the first significant refurbishment of the existing wards since the opening of the university hospital in 1968. Beginning in 2020, the wards in Bettenhaus II are being extensively renovated and adapted to today’s comfort standards. The result will be one- and two-bed rooms for patients with modern multimedia devices and associated bathrooms as standard. The technical infrastructure is also being renewed throughout the entire ward, as well as preparing for digitalisation in medicine. In addition, the facade elements in the respective station area are to be renovated. Renovation of the stations is a state construction project.

The corresponding stations in the temporary Charité Campus Klinik Süd will find a temporary home for the duration of the modernisation project.

Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy

The building for the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at Campus Charité Mitte was built around 110 years ago and has not been renovated for a long period. The planned architectural, fire protection and technical renovation is fundamental. The entire building will be renovated and modernised in three construction phases with partial ongoing clinic operation, so that future patient care can take place in a contemporary and healing-promoting environment.

Research Center at Hessische Strasse

The research building in Hessische Straße on Campus Charité Mitte has been undergoing general renovation since summer 2020. The listed building from the 1950s now offers Charité and the Berlin Institute of Health at Charité (BIH@Charité) more than 2,000 square metres of usable space. Charité and BIH@Charité are researching in working groups in particular, the fields of nephrology, endocrinology and cardiology.

One particular challenge during the conversion was to simultaneously meet the high technical requirements of the laboratory operation and to observe monument preservation, for example with the new ventilation station in the roof area of the building.

The former library has been repurposed as a media and seminar room and will thus promote the exchange between research and teaching with the neighbouring Albrecht Kossel Lecture Theatre.