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/ HEALTHCARE / 40 lower levels where the rehabilitation clinics are, they will get their rehabilitation on the floor where their bed is. “As they get better, they transition and start moving down into the rehabilitation below. Eventually, as they get much better, they go back to the community. “If their degree of rehabilitation gets worse and they are not able to recover, there are transitional beds in there that go all the way up to palliative care which happens on the roof of the tower.” The B+H and CIAP teams faced a number of challenges while working this project. The client’s request to future-proof the facility meant a substantial increase in the gross floor area of the facility. This not only presented a logistical and technical challenge but an architectural and compositional one as well. Doubling capacity meant that the architects also had to increase the number of elevators and service functions. They also had to find a way for the logistics hub to serve the rest of the Campus buildings below grade. Because the Campus is sited on the top of a hill, challenging terrain meant differing datum elevations for all buildings on the Campus. Every building on the site has a different datum line, so connecting the logistics to all 06. On the lower level of the office block is a kindergarten for the children of SGH staff. 06