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£50M or more
2701 Latifa Tower , Sheikh Zayed Road , Dubai , Dubai , N/A , United Arab Emirates
The Centre will contain varied and technology led departments incorporating bunker design to allow for the production, containment and usage of medical radiation. Comprising an array of Linear Accelerators, Chemotherapy unit, Paediatric inpatient facilities, Out Patient Department and a Day Hospital, along with the first Stem Cell Transplant Unit in the country. Bunkers, equipment energy centres and workshops are tucked well into the ground, in floating encasements treated to baffle noise transfer and prevent vibration spreading throughout the building. Sustainable landscaping, gardens, courtyards, and plazas are integrated within the building or viewed from it, to form an essential extension to the patient and staff accommodation, waiting or sub-waiting spaces. Intrinsic to the paediatric inpatient areas, where recovery from stem cell transplant can require four months of isolation, is the design of an enclosed winter garden, to promote recovery. The scheme is currently under construction.