Located in the heart of the Moroccan capital, the Mohammed VI university hospital will consist of four six-storey buildings and a 25-storey tower. With a total area of more than 275,000m², it will house first-class healthcare and teaching facilities, including 553 beds and 20 operating theatres, equipped with advanced medical technology; 15 lecture theatres; 72 teaching rooms; and 217 rooms for practical work, all featuring the latest audiovisual technology.

Designed by AIA Architectes, the hospital will be arranged around three complementary structures:

• the tower, which will house medical consultations, the hospital and the university administration areas, as well as a number of teaching areas;
• the hospital, which will house the technical facilities, emergency services, diagnostic and interventional imaging facilities, intensive care, inpatient wards, and logistics; and
• the university, which will house all the lecture theatres.

Intended to support national and regional healthcare policies, the hospital has expectations of becoming a benchmark for future university hospitals in Morocco – in architecture and in the quality of both care and teaching. The project is aiming for Exceptional HQE certification for the teaching component, including the installation of 8800m² of photovoltaic panels with an output of 2MWp, which will cover more than 10 per cent of the site’s overall needs. Lastly, the design is expected to reduce carbon emissions by more than 40 per cent compared with benchmark projects.

Pierre-Eric Saint-André, deputy chief executive of Bouygues Construction with responsibility for international building projects, said: “We’re proud to have been chosen to construct the Mohammed VI International University Hospital in Rabat and to be able to contribute to the provision of healthcare services for thousands of Moroccans.

“We’ll call on all our technical expertise to meet the ambitious deadlines and achieve the environmental targets that have been set.”

The Mohammed VI International University Hospital in Rabat will be the third hospital project in Morocco undertaken by Bymaro over the past five years, following the handover of the Mohammed VI University Hospital in Bouskoura in 2019, and the ongoing construction of Smart Health Care City in Benguerir.

The project will involve 3500 site workers, including subcontractors, during peak periods. Handover is scheduled for September 2025 and the contract is worth about €450 million.