Overview. Architectural design services for the partial operation of a department within Jouf University Hospital, located in an existing building of a basement and six repeating floors with rooftop mechanical and electrical service rooms. The design follows the Saudi Building Code (SBC), Ministry of Health requirements, CBAHI standards and Civil Defense requirements.

Facilities. Inpatient, intensive care, delivery and healthy-infant beds, emergency, recovery and operating rooms, day care, hemodialysis, treatment beds and outpatient clinics, with a total design capacity of about 167 beds.

Phase 1 – Concept Design.

• Analysis of the existing situation and the operating requirements of the department
• Concept layout: functional distribution, patient, visitor, staff and service circulation, and infection-control separation of clean and dirty routes
• Zoning of functional relationships, entrances and exits, and the life safety concept plan
• Preliminary compliance check against MOH, CBAHI, SBC and Civil Defense requirements

Phase 2 – Schematic Design.

• Architectural schematic plans, vertical sections and life safety plans
• Electrical and mechanical design criteria reports
• Study of upgrading existing systems and connecting the proposed systems to the building infrastructure