Østfold Hospital: New hospital structure and a new hospital on Kalnes

Østfold Hospital plans a new hospital structure in Moss and the construction of a new hospital on Kalnes. In 2015, the new hospital will be ready. A brand new building on Kalnes and the upgraded building in Moss, will provide approximately 270 000 østfold residents with an good hospital service in the future. The new building on Kalnes has a gross floor space of approximately 82,500 square meters.

Key objectives for the work on the preliminary project have included developing a building information model (BIM) as the basis for design work.

dRofus has been used from the very early phase of the project and has become a key tool for the entire design team to ensure the end user's functional, technical and equipment requirements in the new hospital.

Tight integration with Revit Architecture through a plug-in for Revit ensures good workflow with dRofus. Data from dRofus regarding planned rooms, Room Data Sheet (RDS) and equipment is synchronized to Revit, whilst data from Revit is synchronized back to dRofus.

IFC files from Revit Architecture are uploaded every week to the project's server so they are available for all members of the engineering group. Since dRofus can import and export IFC, and has a built-in IFC viewer, all users of dRofus (ie also all those who do not have Revit installed), can simply visualize the building in 3D and continuously quality-control the rooms, equipment and areas according to the planned solutions.