New Hospital of South-East Bari of Monopoli-Fasano

The New Hospital of South-East Bari of Monopoli-Fasano is an innovative, sustainable project that respects the territory's cultural heritage. It is a premium health care facility of territorial strategic value. The building contract foresaw building all the civil works and all the plants. 

Commissioned by the ASL (local Italian NHS-type service) of the Province of Bari, the health care facility was designed according to eco-design-inspired criteria principles. It was conceived as a proper "hospital in a park". In fact, the structure is set in a plain of olive trees, which create a wide swath of agricultural landscape designed to harmonize the new building with its surroundings.

The structure ensures strengthening and modernising the capacity of the hospital's offer in the entire region, benefiting a user basin of 260 thousand people, who come not just from the Fasano and Monopoli municipalities, but also from the municipalities south of Bari, at the north of Brindisi and around Taranto. 

A strategic structure for the territory

The new hospital will have 299 beds and 9 operating rooms, with all the main medical and surgical disciplines, the relevant intensive care and supporting hospital visits and diagnostic services, on a total operation area of 178,000 square metres. 

The structure also foresees an ER and parking lot with over 740 parking spaces, benefiting a reference basin made of 260 potential users. 

A building will also be recovered near the hospital structure, which will be used as a nursery for the children of the people working in the hospital.

Innovation and Sustainability for a premium healthcare hub

Sustainable technologies and innovative materials are predominant elements of this project. The new buildings meet bioclimatic design criteria (such as, for example, ventilated walls, storage and transformation of solar energy and rainwater, etc.). 

Traditional craftsmanship and materials were recovered, such as the historic "dry stone walls," used to build the perimeter walls, made with an ancient technique that in 2018 was also recognized as an Intangible Heritage of Humanity. The project also foresees replanting secular olive trees inside the hospital park.

Plant design was inspired by sound energy-saving criteria and a high degree of reliability to ensure continuity, flexibility and security for the service provided. Eco-friendly, locally sourced materials were preferred. 

The “Hospital within the park”, inspired by eco-friendly criteria

Plant design was inspired by sound energy-saving criteria that allowed to strongly improve the overall energy performance of the new structure and a high degree of reliability to ensure continuity, flexibility and security for the service provided.

The construction and technological solutions used were developed to optimize the energy efficiency of the facility, such as high-efficiency energy production using renewable energy, reuse of rainwater for irrigation, and flexible regulation of plant operation. 

In particular, the saving of water and drinking water is possible thanks to the creation of two collection and accumulation basins of rainwater from the roofs, with an overall capacity of approximately 340 cubic metres, to feed the toilet flush boxes and to irrigate the green areas, reducing the potable water requirements up to 50% during the most rainy annual period. 

Moreover, the project foresaw installing a thermal solar system (33 sq. metres) to produce hot sanitary water using solar energy.

The structure's electricity demand will also be covered through a photovoltaic plant, with a 915kW capacity, by integrating photovoltaic panels on the available roofs, covering an ovearll area of 4,260 square metres and foreseeing using cutting-edge high-efficient modules that allow maximising the energy production with the same plant area.

The annual energy produced amounts to approximately 1,225,000 Kwh, approximately 30% of the overall demand. The photovoltaic plant also allows a significant reduction of approximately 650 tonnes less CO2 emissions per year.