The University Hospital Tübingen is planning a “Center for Mental Health” at the Talklinikum.

A station extension to the Vita building, Osianderstraße 5, is intended to create space for the psychosomatic clinic to move into the valley.

The following uses are housed in the annex:

— Entrance area with recording,

— 28 beds in single and twin rooms with en-suite bathrooms,

— station rooms per bed level,

— Investigation room,

— doctors' rooms and therapy/intervention rooms for individual and group therapy,

— lounges with tea kitchens,

— teaching kitchen for specialized treatment settling for patients with eating disorders,

— common areas to meet and linger,

— group rooms,

— spaces for creative, social, body, movement, physiotherapy, family therapy and biofeedback,

— functional and technical rooms,

— clearances and areas for garden therapy,

Building characteristics new building:

— gross floor area (GFA) 2 437 m2,

— Gross volume (BRI) 8 433 m3.

Insulation and fire protection work on the technical systems for the extension Vita for approx. 1 100 m of drinking water pipes, 100 waste and storm water pipes, approx. 700 m pipelines for heat supply, 200 m pipelines for the refrigeration supply and 50 m2 insulation of ventilation ducts.

The work is tendered, including the necessary fire safety measures and fire foreclosure.