Date published: June 27, 2012
CEMEX in France is providing specialty ready-mix concrete
products and technical services to construct the Ambroise
Paré - Paul Desbrief Hospital, one of the country's most
modern medical centers. In compliance with French HQE
(Haute Qualité Environnementale) sustainable building
certification requirements, CEMEX is working with a team
of companies to build an advanced facility with 97,641 m²
of gross floor area-combining the highest standards of
quality and efficiency.
The modern 479-bed hospital covers over 85% of the 1.8
hectare mixed development zone of the Cité Mediteranée at
Marseille. Among other services, the facility will provide
short and medium stay hospitalization, examination, and
therapy through a variety of medical imaging, consultation,
and emergency departments in an impressive structure with
13 patios that promote the natural lighting of the central
premises.
This complex structure's aesthetic and engineering
specifications require a variety of CEMEX specialty
ready-mix concretes, which utilize purpose-adapted
techniques for their installation. For example, almost all
of the concrete must be pumped so as not to saturate the
site's five cranes. Some 15,000 m³ of specialty concrete
forms the floors, poles, and internal walls, while another
15,000 m³ of concrete has been poured for external walls.
In a highly original application, subject to control by the
Nuclear Safety Authorities, the radiotherapy room will use
2,000 m³ of special heavy, high-density concrete to prepare
a virtual bunker whose wall mass must stop radiation.
As this project illustrates, CEMEX does more than supply
building materials; it provides solutions. From technical
advice to custom-tailored products, the company helps
clients build better, faster, safer, and more sustainable
structures.
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