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The 'Equipment' Project

The equipment project is responsible for facilities planning and procurement within agreed budgets.

Today, hospitals are high-tech organizations, where medical and technological development is continually extending the range and extent of the conditions that can be diagnosed and treated.

At the same time, there are ever-increasing demands for cost-effective operation and capital investment. Procurement of medical equipment is therefore a very important task.

For the new university hospital, this has been organized as a separate equipment project, parallel to the centre projects.

The intention of this separation of building and equipment tasks is to ensure that the end-client and hospital give the necessary attention to equipment purchasing, and that and there is a level of standardization across the boundaries of the individual centre projects.

In this context, "equipment" includes medical equipment and furnishings, IT equipment and movable fittings.