Construction of Elevators for the Transport of Waste & Transport of Patient Stretchers with the Configurations of the Areas Adjacent to them at the “Pammakaristos” Hospital
The “PAMAKARISTOS” Hospital was founded on May 27, 1953 with the aim of treating and relieving patients. In the year 1991, the Hospital was designated as a Prefectural General Hospital and was renamed the Prefectural Hospital of Athens “I PAMAKARISTOS”. The Hospital is located in the area of Kato Patisia. It consists of two buildings, one of which houses the administrative service and the surgeries and the second where the main hospital is housed, with a capacity of 170 developed beds. The object of the project is the construction of elevators for the transport of waste and the transport of patient stretchers. Due to the increased demands of continuous operation in all elevators of the main building of the hospital, the need arose for the creation of shafts for the elevator of waste and transfer of stretchers, which were not foreseen in its original architectural study. With the creation of the elevators, the Hospital will be able, with the appropriate distribution of uses, to face a serious problem in the field of vertical transport, the lack of pure use of an elevator for waste of all types (hospital, infectious, etc.), as well as the connection between the of two building complexes of the Hospital (buildings A’ and B’).
The waste lift selected was placed adjacent to the existing people lifts in the main stairwell, within the existing building. The elevator has a payload of 1250 Kgr and eight (8) stops as it starts from the basement of the building and will end on the sixth floor. The lift has:
- Automatic release in case of power failure.
- Special design for easy chamber access with automatic chamber and shaft doors.
- Stable movement during ascent and descent regardless of load weight or operating temperature.
- Absolute level equalization and chamber level correction with doors open or closed.
- Fast, silent and safe transport in all conditions.
The patient lift was chosen in a free-standing structure outside the building envelope and in contact with the north face of the building, west of the existing stairwell which does not include lifts. The elevator has a payload of 2100 Kgr and seven (7) stops as it starts from the basement of the building and ends at the sixth floor, bypassing the fifth floor. The lift has:
- Automatic release in case of power failure.
- Special design for easy chamber access with automatic chamber and shaft doors.
- Stable movement during ascent and descent regardless of load weight or operating temperature.
- Absolute level equalization and chamber level correction with doors open or closed.
- Fast, silent and safe transport in all conditions.
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