In December 2019, after only 12 months’ construction, the topping out ceremony took place for the new-build psychiatric hospital in Sehnde’s Köthenwald district. The project for the complex with its 270 beds is thus fully on schedule. The celebratory ceremony was attended by Heiger Scholz, State Secretary in the Lower Saxony Ministry for Social Affairs, Health and Equal Rights, Olaf Kruse, Mayor of Sehnde, Bettina Conrady, Senior Municipal Councillor of Sehnde, and representatives of the worlds of business and politics.
Now that the structural construction work is complete, the interior fit-out will progress in leaps and bounds. The plan is for the new-build hospital, which will total some 28,000 square metres in size, to go into operation at the end of 2021. The ensemble of five buildings arranged around a shared inner courtyard will then be the largest new psychiatric hospital in the State of Lower Saxony. The design by tsj Architekten will supplement the local facilities for psychiatric treatment – which date from as far back as 1862. WTM Engineers handled the structural design and the fire safety concept.
