The project will transform healthcare delivery in Fife, creating a first-class facility for patients and staff alike. Coupled with its structural performance, ComFlor® 51 presents a virtually flat soffit and a relatively thin slab, enabling it to meet stringent fire design requirements.

Victoria Hospital, one of two acute care hospitals in Fife, has been serving the Fife public since the early 1960’s. As part of NHS Fife’s overall strategy to modernise health services in the acute and community sectors, a major new wing at the south of the hospital is currently under construction.

The project will transform healthcare delivery in Fife,creating a first-class facility for patients and staff alike.

The project itself involves the construction of a 50,000m2 new hospital wing, linked to the existing Victoria Hospital to the south of the current tower block. Unlike the 1960’s Victoria Hospital buildings, dominated by a large rectangular tower block, the new wing has been designed as a waveform. In order to accommodate the undulating wave-like western façade of the new wing, the steelwork has been erected around a 7.0m x 8.1m grid.

The new hospital facility will include eleven operating theatres, a new accident and emergency department, surgical and medical assessment units, and maternity and children’s services.

Bringing hospital construction into the 21st Century, the new wing at Victoria Hospital is a prime example of how a new generation of hospitals are being designed and built.