Provisions for emergencies.
(Photo: University Hospital Essen, Imago [M])
Berlin Stefan Neuhaus is one of the first to know when the lights go out in Essen. The technical manager of the city’s university hospital probably knows every power line that supplies the hospital with energy.
There are 56 buildings on the site, with 1,300 beds and 55,000 inpatients per year, it is one of the largest clinics in Germany. A hospital that uses as much electricity as 15,000 two-person households or a medium-sized city.
If an important device fails somewhere in this widely ramified realm, displays in the clinic’s technical control room sound the alarm. The unadorned, 90 square meter room is Neuhaus’ command center. It is staffed 24 hours a day.
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