AIA COTE selected Ng Teng Fong General Hospital for sustainable design excellence for 2017

Ng Teng Fong General Hospital
Ng Teng Fong General Hospital
Photo © CPG Consultants

The AIA COTE selected the project as one of the best examples of sustainable design excellence for 2017. Ng Teng Fong General Hospital (NTFGH) is Singapore’s first medical campus with an outpatient clinic, community hospital and acute care general hospital.

Ng Teng Fong General Hospital
Photo © CPG Consultants

The team designed the campus as a prototype for the Singapore Ministry of Health’s effort to provide high-quality, affordable care to all.

Ng Teng Fong General Hospital
Photo © CPG Consultants

The facility, which includes Jurong Community Hospital, provides seamless integration of care on a single site. Close management ensures integration at the hospitals’ infrastructure, administrative and clinical levels.

Ng Teng Fong General Hospital
Photo © CPG Consultants

The hospitals are designed to share service facilities such as digital imaging, pharmacy, catering, medical records, storage and training facilities. Sustainable design strategies create a facility that functions like a vertical healing garden.

Ng Teng Fong General Hospital
Photo © CPG Consultants

Based on the design team’s client mandate to give “every patient a window,” the design brings plants, gardens and daylight into each patient’s view. Controlled access to vegetation on terraces provides a therapeutic environment for healing.

Ng Teng Fong General Hospital
Photo © Rory Daniel

Oriented to reduce solar gain and capture prevailing breezes, the unique floor arrangement allows for double the amount of natural ventilation. The project also includes solar thermal hot water heating and a large photovoltaic array. It has been rated Platinum under Singapore’s Green Mark program.

Ng Teng Fong General Hospital
Photo © Rory Daniel

The team used detailed computational fluid dynamics models, shading analysis, climate analysis, daylight modeling and energy modeling to develop the design to optimize energy efficiency and the patient experience.

Ng Teng Fong General Hospital
Photo © CPG Consultants / Rory Daniel

As design and medical planning consultant, HOK collaborated with the Singapore Ministry of Health and a team that included CPG Corporation (prime architect and architect of record) and Studio 505 (design collaborator focusing on building envelope development). Source by HOK.

Ng Teng Fong General Hospital
Photo © CPG Consultants
  • Location: Jurong, Singapore
  • Design Consultant and Medical Planning: HOK
  • Architect of Record: CPG Consultants Pte Ltd
  • Interior design: Bent Severin and Associates Pte Ltd
  • Owner: Singapore Ministry of Health
  • Size: 1.84 million sq. ft. / 171,300 sq. m.
  • Completion date: October 2015
  • Green Certification: Green Mark Platinum
  • Awards: AIA Committee on the Environment – Top 10 Green Projects, AIA Hong Kong – Honor Award in Architecture, Design & Health International Academy Awards – Highly Commendable, International Healthcare Project above 40,000 sq.m. Salutogenic Design Project Winner, Sustainable Urban and Built Environment Winner, European Healthcare Design Awards – Honorable Mention, FuturArc Journal – Green Leadership Award, Award of Merit
  • Photographs: Rory Daniel, CPG Consultants, Courtesy of HOK
Ng Teng Fong General Hospital
Photo © Rory Daniel
Ng Teng Fong General Hospital
Photo © BJ Lee
Ng Teng Fong General Hospital
Photo © CPG Consultants
Ng Teng Fong General Hospital
Sustainability diagram
Ng Teng Fong General Hospital
Ecology Scheme

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *