ENR’s major accolade to Rönesans Holding
Başakşehir Çam (Pine) and Sakura City Hospital, an example of public-private partnership (PPP) construction by Renaissance Healthcare Investment and Japan’s Sojitz, wins the Award of Merit at Engineering News Record’s (ENR) 8th Global Best Projects competition in the healthcare category.
The success story of Başakşehir Çam and Sakura City Hospital, a joint project by Renaissance Healthcare Investment and Japan’s Sojitz, is crowned with a prestigious recognition. The hospital received the Award of Merit in healthcare at the 8th Global Best Projects competition by ENR, an industrial publication dating back to 1917. Submitted to ENR’s award committee by ARUP, an engineering consultancy firm offering know-how and experience to Turkish market since 1982, the project outperformed nominees from 21 countries across six continents to win this award, a global testament to the engineering success of the Başakşehir Çam and Sakura City Hospital project.
The “ENR Global Best Projects” judges, renowned names of the industry, recognize top construction projects and contractors based on five criteria including safety, innovation and teamwork.
Başakşehir Çam ve Sakura City Hospital was delivered after a record-shattering 32 months, earlier than the planned date. With this early delivery, developers Renaissance Healthcare, one of Turkey’s top healthcare investors, and Sojitz, a leading investment and trading company in Japan, have defied the recent pandemic-related challenges.
The 2,682-bed Başakşehir Çam and Sakura City Hospital serves with a daily patient capacity of 32,700 across an area over 1 million sqm. The complex is looking to solve healthcare needs of not only Istanbul but the entire region. Equipped with 2,068 seismic isolators, Başakşehir Çam and Sakura City Hospital is also known as the world’s largest base-isolated building.
About Rönesans Group
Rönesans Holding, the conglomerate's leading investment entity headquartered in Ankara, is the 53rd largest international contracting company globally and one of the largest in Europe. With operations spanning 30 countries across Europe, Central Asia, and Africa, including subsidiaries such as Ballast Nedam in the Netherlands and Heitkamp Industrial Solutions GmbH in Germany, Rönesans has been operating as the main contractor and investor successfully for 30 years in construction, energy, healthcare, real estate development and industrial investments. Putting resilience and growth through innovation at the core of the company, with a priority on sustainability and social development, Rönesans has developed projects supporting students with scholarships, academic platforms and initiatives; been a signatory of the UN Global Compact since 2015; and a signatory of the UN Women’s Empowerment Principles since 2016.
Under the leadership of its president, Erman Ilıcak, Rönesans, along with its partners GIC, Meridiam Infrastructure, Sojitz, Samsung C&T, TotalEnergies, and IFC of the World Bank Group (minority shareholder in the group), has invested more than EUR8 billion into pioneering projects globally.