The University Clinic Hamburg-Eppendorf master plan became reality

The University Clinic has been continually growing for many decades, creating a situation where the current building structure was no longer viable. Around 300 million euros were invested in renovation and new construction, funded primarily by city, state and federal governments.

Construction work was carried out while the clinic continued to operate. This presented a major challenge for the Masterplan project team, which assumed the role of project client and is responsible for financial control, aligning the architectural design with the requirements of the UKE organisation, and coordinating all project planners and contractors.

Construction of the new clinic

Several care units with 720 beds, as well as outpatient areas and operating theatres, were built over 85,000 square metres within the new hospital complex. The new clinic building is based on plans by Munich architects, Nickl & Partner, which won the design competition for the project in 2003.

Rule-based plan distribution and structured document management

Plan management for the new clinic building was achieved using rule-based, digital distribution. Print orders were also generated according to pre-set rules and forwarded to three different plan printing services in Munich, Hamburg and Stuttgart. General documents, minutes, the planning manual and daily construction records were also managed using think project!.

Online project organisation

The Masterplan project team commissioned think project! to set up a customised online collaboration platform to coordinate its planners and approval authorities. In addition to the organisation of plans and print orders, the team used think project! Meeting Minutes Management and Webcam modules and implemented central email storage.