Health Strategy and Regional Expansion: ENERO Arquitectura Strengthens Its Activity in Barcelona
This month on the blog, we want to share the progress of our second home: the ENERO Arquitectura office in Barcelona. The team based in the Catalan capital has completed, among other projects, the expansion of Quirónsalud Badalona Hospital. This intervention adds 1,330 m² of new healthcare space and incorporates 36 additional single rooms, including one suite on each of the two new floors.
The new fourth and fifth floors were foreseen in the hospital’s original design, which made it possible to efficiently integrate the new areas with the existing infrastructure. In addition to patient rooms, the expansion includes workrooms, nursing control stations, and technical support areas, increasing the hospital’s care capacity without interrupting its activity.
Construction Challenges and Project Zoning
Carrying out the expansion while the hospital remained operational posed a technical challenge that required rigorous planning strategies. The execution required designing separate access routes for materials and construction personnel, avoiding interference with healthcare circuits.
Dust control and protection from particles were ensured through hermetic sealing at critical points and the implementation of reinforced cleaning protocols. Zoning was essential: physical barriers were installed using drywall partitions and plastic sheets up to the slab, ensuring complete separation between the construction area and active hospital zones.
This organization, together with access control systems and periodic hygiene routines, made it possible to carry out the expansion without disrupting hospital services.
Fotografía exterior del hospital Quirónsalud Badalona. Fotografía de Jorge Allende.
Fotografía interior del hospital Quirónsalud Badalona. Fotografía de Jorge Allende.
ENERO Arquitectura in Catalonia: A Consolidated Team in Barcelona
The expansion of Quirónsalud Badalona Hospital is part of ENERO Arquitectura’s solid trajectory in Catalonia. The firm, with an established presence in Barcelona, develops healthcare, heritage, and hospitality projects across the region, applying a multidisciplinary and collaborative approach.
Its team in the Catalan capital combines technical specialization with experience in complex projects, ensuring innovative and sustainable solutions adapted to each context. From its Barcelona office, ENERO Arquitectura drives interventions that reinforce its commitment to user well-being and design excellence, consolidating itself as a benchmark in healthcare and facility architecture at both regional and national levels.
The firm is currently engaged in major healthcare facility projects addressing today’s needs for modernization and improvement of hospital infrastructure.
Highlights include the construction of a new surgical block at Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, which will feature three state-of-the-art operating rooms designed to optimize efficiency and safety in medical procedures, as well as the comprehensive renovation of the building at 55 Londres Street, intended to house administrative functions related to the same hospital.
Adaptation works are also underway at Hospital El Pilar, Hospital Universitari Sagrat Cor, and Hospital Universitario General de Catalunya, aimed at updating their facilities. In addition, this year saw the completion of the renovation of the Fraternidad-Muprespa healthcare center, located in Plaza de Tetuán, Barcelona. This space was conceived to provide healthcare services in a modern and accessible environment, along with update works for the Ricard Fortuny Socio-Health Consortium in Vilafranca del Penedès.
In recent years, the Barcelona office has carried out projects for various public and private sector clients, highlighting works for Hospital Santa Creu i Sant Pau, CEMCAT at Vall d’Hebron Hospital, the Consorci Sanitari Pere Virgili, and IM Clinic in Sant Cugat del Vallès, among others. From our office in the Catalan capital, currently led by architect Miriam Queralt, a new hospital project is being designed for the Caribbean region.
Fotografía interior del hospital Quirónsalud Badalona. Fotografía de Jorge Allende.
Fotografía interior del hospital Quirónsalud Badalona. Fotografía de Jorge Allende.