Digital consulting at New Odense University Hospital
Five years embedded inside one of Europe’s most complex hospital construction projects, designing the digital strategy for a site that tested every assumption about scale.
The project
One hospital. Thirty-one buildings. Twenty-two kilometres of corridors.
The New Odense University Hospital is the largest and most technically demanding construction project ever undertaken in Denmark.
Commissioned by the Region of Southern Denmark and built by the Odense Hospital Project Team J/V, it spans 250,000 m² across 31 buildings, all connected through a continuous network of corridors, on a total site of 860,000 m².
Two hospital blocks are linked underground via logistic tunnels running beneath an active city railway, and above ground by three 47-metre span bridges crossing it.
Monitoring an environment like this during active construction, thousands of workers, shifting structures, extreme winter conditions, is, by any measure, an exceptional engineering challenge.
Neuroject’s role
Not a vendor. An embedded partner for five years.
Neuroject was embedded within the Odense Hospital Project Team as the technical and digital consulting function, not called in for a single deliverable, but continuously involved in shaping how the project managed itself digitally from 2019 to completion.
This kind of engagement requires understanding a project deeply enough to design solutions that fit the actual operational reality on the ground, not a theoretical version of it.
Digital monitoring strategy
Designed the overall approach to monitoring a 250,000 m² site in real time across multiple dimensions simultaneously.
Technology selection & integration
Evaluated, selected and oversaw the deployment of IoT systems adapted to the signal, structural and operational constraints of the site.
Technology partner advisory
Advised companies on the project on system architecture, GDPR compliance and IoT network performance in a demanding, concrete-heavy environment.
Operational translation
Made technical systems legible and actionable for production managers, site coordinators and decision-makers who needed clear answers, not complex dashboards.
Consulting
Beyond the technology, the advisory layer that protects the project.
Continuous environmental monitoring, temperature, humidity, structural readings, produces a timestamped data trail that becomes critical evidence when claims emerge between contractors, clients and insurers. At New OUH, that record covered five years and 250,000 m².
Five years inside one of Europe’s most complex construction sites gives Neuroject a direct understanding of where insurance risk concentrates, and how digital monitoring infrastructure measurably reduces exposure from the first day of deployment.
From the first planning session to final handover, Neuroject works alongside project leadership to identify, map and mitigate risk, translating complex site data into decisions that can actually be acted on, at the pace a live construction project demands.
What we built
The sensor backbone. Three integrated systems across 250,000 m².
Wearable IoT for safety & GDPR-compliant presence tracking
Thousands of workers operating across 31 buildings simultaneously. The risk of an unnoticed incident was serious and constant: a fall, a loss of consciousness, someone isolated in an unsealed area.
Fall and unconsciousness detection. Embedded temperature sensor verifying the 15°C Danish winter minimum. Helmet-mount and badge formats, certified and swappable across helmet-free work phases.
Zone-counting infrastructure. No personal data stored, no individual tracking. Workers identified only by presence within a defined area, situational awareness without compromise.
Multi-frequency anchor mesh, engineered for prefabricated concrete panels and triple-glazed facades that would have defeated a single-frequency approach.
Temperature & humidity across the whole building
During Scandinavian winters, a partially sealed site of this scale is almost impossible to manage manually. Temperature and humidity had to be correct, for the workers, the materials and the drying processes that must complete before the next installation phase can begin.
More than 100 wireless IoT sensors deployed across the buildings, feeding a real-time monitoring dashboard with instant alerts on threshold breaches.
Removed the need for daily physical checks across 300 fan coils connected through 40 km of heating hoses, delivering better temperature balance, less heat loss and a measurably more efficient heating operation.
Safety awareness training, delivered at scale
Deploying a wearable IoT safety system across thousands of workers is not a technical problem alone, it is a human one. Neuroject designed and delivered the full onboarding programme for the safety infrastructure at New OUH.
Each session combined a structured safety briefing with hands-on device distribution, walking workers through the device’s purpose, how to mount it correctly and what fall detection, unconsciousness detection and zone monitoring could and could not do.
Sessions ran on a rolling basis as new subcontractors arrived, in multiple languages, across contractor groups with very different safety cultures. Every worker left with a configured, active device and a clear understanding of why it was there.
Reality Capture
Three tools for a site too large to see with the naked eye.
Automated drone flights covered the external envelope on a regular cadence. Internal 360° photography documented every floor, corridor and MEP installation phase, a navigable visual history the whole team could access from anywhere.
Drone photogrammetry produced aerial orthomaps and 3D surface models of the full site. Tripod scanning captured interiors with the precision needed for clash detection and as-built verification, a measurable baseline at every stage.
A real-time digital twin integrated worker presence, environmental sensor feeds and structural monitoring, overlaid on an interactive map of all 31 buildings. For the first time, leadership could see the full site state in a single, continuously updated view.
What this means for you
Every engagement Neuroject takes on today is informed by what we learned at New OUH, about what actually breaks at scale, which monitoring architectures hold up in real-world conditions, and what kind of consulting genuinely moves a project forward.
We know the difference between a system that looks good in a demo and one that survives five winters on a live construction site. We know how to advise technology partners without slowing the project down, and how to make complex data legible for the people who need to act on it.
If you are working on a project where complexity is the challenge, in healthcare, infrastructure or large-scale construction, this is the kind of experience we bring to the conversation.
