Nye SUS, Helse Stavanger: hospital new build under construction, aerial view

← LEAN GROUPNye SUS · Helse Stavanger HF

Hospital construction.
Operational on day one.

From construction planning through operational activation into running operations.

PROJECT: Norway's largest hospital project
SCALE: approx. EUR 1bn · approx. 125,000 square metres · 430 beds
MOVE-IN: November 2025

01 · SERVICES

From construction planning into operations.

Construction creates the facility, activation makes it operational, operations keep it performing. The focus is on activation, which few providers in the German market run as a service of its own.

Lean Construction in hospital projects

We run the project on lean principles rather than a conventional schedule: takt planning, pull control of the trades, weekly planning with the people doing the work, based on VDI 2553. The difference is made by user coordination, because hospital projects regularly fail on user decisions taken too late or taken twice.

SCOPE

Takt planning and takt control
Last Planner System
User coordination
Functional and operational planning
Process simulation and mock-up rooms
Certification to VDI 2553

Operational activation

A finished building is not a working hospital. We record every process that has to run in the new facility, define it, trial it and hand it over into operations; progress is measured in maturity levels, not milestones. Internationally the framework is established as ORAT, Operational Readiness Activation and Transition. We count backwards from the first patient day: set-up from around 36 months out, definition from 24, trials from 12. Starting twelve months before move-in is possible, but under schedule pressure.

SCOPE

Activation programme with maturity levels
Capacity model and constraint analysis
Equipment logistics
Relocation management
Operational simulation and trial runs
Ramp-up control after move-in

Process improvement in hospital operations

For hospitals that are not building right now. The same methods then address the constraint in the existing facility, usually in the operating theatre and in patient flow between emergency admission and discharge.

SCOPE

Operating-theatre efficiency
Patient flow
Material, logistics and sterile supply flow
Service-group readiness under KHVVG
Operational performance metrics
Training for clinical leaders

We do not yet hold a hospital reference in this area.

We do not carry out technical commissioning to VDI 6039. That guideline is limited to cost groups 400 and 500 under DIN 276-1. Our subject is the organisation that will work in the building.

TRAINING

Lean Construction Academy

As a certified VDI training partner we qualify client, designer and user teams as Lean Construction experts to VDI 2553.

To the academy →

02 · INSIGHTS

From practice.

Three articles showing how these methods are applied in hospitals and in construction projects.

CONSTRUCTIONSEPTEMBER 2023

Lean digital transformation in construction: the Stavanger hospital case study

The use of lean methodology and advanced digital tools brought the Stavanger hospital project in Norway to international recognition. See how the fusion of digitalisation and lean principles produced an optimised project structure, a more efficient build process and the award for the world's best digital construction project.

READ →

HEALTHCAREFEBRUARY 2024

Efficiency in healthcare: a hospital takes a new path

How a leading hospital used targeted lean methods to double its efficiency, cut waiting times and lift patient satisfaction. Inside: multi-moment analysis, work-pressure analysis and shadowing.

READ →

EXPERTISEJUNE 2020

Takt planning and takt control: the origin of a method

Jörn Steinbeck transferred the assembly line to the project industry. The inventor of the project-management method takt planning / takt control (TPS) is Jörn Steinbeck.

READ →

VIEW ALL INSIGHTS →

03 · CONTACT