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900 Beds. One Integrated Campus. Designed in 3 Months.
How Medigence delivered a complete hospital and medical college design for KIRC Kalol — expanding an existing 320-bed facility with 580 beds of new infrastructure, on one of Gujarat’s most ambitious healthcare campuses.
Total bed capacity
320 existing + 580 new
320 existing + 580 new
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months to complete design
full campus — hospital + medical college
full campus — hospital + medical college
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sq ft built-up area
end-to-end scope
end-to-end scope
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architecture, MEP, interiors,
landscape
The project at a glance
KIRC — Kalol, Gujarat — came to Medigence with an existing 320-bed hospital that had outgrown its infrastructure. The vision: expand to a 900-bed integrated campus, incorporating a full medical college alongside the upgraded hospital, while maintaining continuity of care during the transition. The design scope was comprehensive — architecture, structure, MEP, interiors, and landscape — and the timeline was tight.
Bed expansion — existing vs new infrastructure
3 months: What that actually means
Design delivery — 3-month sprint
Month 1
Master planning, functional brief, zoning & department layout
Month 2
Architecture, structural design, MEP coordination, medical college integration
Month 3
Interiors, landscape, compliance review, complete design package handover
A 900-bed hospital and medical college campus is not a small design exercise. It involves hundreds of interdependent decisions — department adjacencies, structural grids, vertical circulation cores, MEP shaft routing, infection control zoning, NMC compliance for academic spaces, NABH-aligned clinical layout. Delivering the complete design package in 3 months requires a team that has done this before, a process that runs in parallel (not in sequence), and leadership that can make fast, well-informed calls.
“The more you sweat in hospital planning & design,
less you bleed during hospital construction & execution”
Designing around an existing facility
Expanding a live 320-bed hospital is categorically harder than building from scratch. The existing building sets constraints — structural columns that can’t move, active departments that can’t be disrupted, utility lines already in the ground. The new 580-bed block had to connect seamlessly with the existing facility: same infection control standards, same circulation logic, no dead ends, no bottlenecks where old meets new.
This is where Medigence’s inside-out planning methodology earns its value. We don’t start with what looks good. We start with how the hospital will actually function — the patient journey from entry to discharge, the staff flow from service areas to clinical zones, the supply chain from stores to wards. Only once that map is clear do we work outward to structure, skin, and systems.
Hospital + Medical College: The dual-purpose challenge
Adding a medical college to a hospital campus means serving two distinct populations simultaneously — patients who need care, and students who need to learn. These are not naturally compatible. Teaching rounds slow clinical flow. Student corridors conflict with patient privacy. Academic lecture halls, labs, and simulation centres have completely different structural and MEP requirements to clinical spaces.
The KIRC campus design resolves this through deliberate zoning — a clinical spine that operates independently, connected to the academic block at designated teaching interfaces. Students access clinical areas through structured, planned pathways. Patient zones remain calm and private. Both systems work together without friction.
What the scope covered
Architecture & Master Plan:
Full campus layout integrating existing 320-bed hospital with new 580-bed block and medical college NMC and NABH compliant.
MEP & Building Services:
Mechanical, electrical, plumbing, and ELV systems designed for 900-bed operational load with future scalability.
Interior Design:
Clinical interiors across OPD, IPD, ICU, OT, and academic spaces — infection control and wayfinding integrated at design stage.
Landscape & Site:
Campus landscaping, pedestrian and vehicle separation, and green buffer zones across the full site.
Why speed did not mean shortcuts
Three months is fast for a project of this scale. It was possible because Medigence runs an integrated team — architects, structural engineers, MEP engineers, interior designers, and compliance specialists working in parallel, not in handoff sequence. By the time the structural drawings were being detailed, MEP coordination was already running. By the time MEP was finalised, interior space planning had begun.
Speed in hospital design doesn’t come from cutting corners. It comes from clarity of brief, depth of experience, and a team that has solved these problems before. Medigence’s 125+ completed projects and 2 crore+ sq ft of ongoing work mean our team carries institutional knowledge that shortens every decision cycle.
The bigger picture for North Gujarat
A 900-bed campus with an integrated medical college is generational infrastructure. It trains the clinicians who will serve Kalol and the surrounding region for the next three decades, while simultaneously raising the standard of tertiary care available locally. For a region that has historically depended on Ahmedabad for advanced treatment, this campus changes the equation meaningfully.
Medigence is proud to have delivered the design that makes this possible — on time, to standard, and built to last.
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