Lufttransport acquired 11 new aircraft. These needed to be filled with specially designed furnishings containing the best in medical equipment.

When you have to design a customised flying emergency room there are numerous requirements and advanced special needs to consider. However, patients and staff are the first consideration.

Design for extremesituations

A complex system has been designed that takes many aspects into account. Safety, g-force, weight, weather, maintenance, service, mounting and storage of medical equipment, ergonomics, movement, lighting, comfort, stress, sterilisation, maintenance of systems and replenishment of equipment are just some of them.

Innovations such as smarter, lower and more ergonomic loading and unloading of stretchers, communication between the patient and relatives, mobile workstation modules and equipment that can be positioned and accompany the patient out of the aircraft are some of the results of an intensive, two-year design project.  This is certainly a functional and aesthetic quantum leap for the industry.

Company: Lufttransport AS

Project group company: Frank Wilhelmsen, Ambulance Chief, Lufttransport AS - Svein Sandve, Technical Manager, Lufttransport AS - Fredrik Ottosson, Project Manager / Engineer, Lufttransport AS - Jon Arne Jørgensen,Engineering, Lufttransport AS - Roger Hensiksen, Technician, Lufttransport

Design: Bendik Torvin Industridesign

Project group design company: Bendik Torvin Industrial design, Oslo - Bendik Torvin (industrial designer), Balder Onarheim (industrial designer), Pål Espensen (industrial designer), Prof. dr. med. Mads Gilbert (Avd.leder akuttmedisin, UNN) - Max Bucher & Team, engineering/production, Aerolite Max Bucher, Sveits - Max Bucher (chief engineer), Christian Mess (engineer), Stefan Merz (engineer), Alexander Kugele (engineer) - External - Trond Antonsen, nurse, the ambulance base, Bodø - Willy Strandkleiv, nurse, the ambulance base, Ålesund - Svein Harald Enge, nurse, the ambulance base Kirkenes - Terje Strand, Department Chief, the ambulance base, avd. Ullevål, Oslo - Raimo Martinsen, servicechief, AeroMedTech AS - Pål Madsen, Medical Advisor / Medical, Luftambulansetjenesten ANS

Award / year: Award for Design Excellence - 2011

Category: Industrial design