“Demand for medical services in the south of Vienna currently exceeds supply. The new healthcare centre is perfectly suited to meet this demand thanks to its location and good public transport connections. The MIA will offer high-quality medical care close to home for a broad section of the population”, says PORR CEO Karl-Heinz Strauss. 

The new healthcare centre will provide space for up to 5,000 people a day. PORR is part of a consortium that will build a centre with a gross floor area of 21,000m² and 11,800m² of main rental space across twelve storeys, eight of which are above ground. 

Sustainability is an important focus in both the build and operation of the health centre. The building will be certified in accordance with the international LEED standard. It will boast completely greened exterior facades, green recreational oases on the storeys and top floor, as well as ‘office urban gardening’. Construction is due to start in the third quarter of 2025 and will take around three years to complete. 

Healthcare construction as growing sector

The owner is the project company MZL Beteiligungs & Immobilienentwicklungs GmbH, in which PORR holds a stake together with MZLH Beteiligungs GmbH. Strategic project development, marketing and sales will be handled by hospitals GmbH, a PORR subsidiary specialising in the development and operation of healthcare facilities. It will also ensure that the MIA health centre is more than just a collection of clinics for doctors covered by standard health insurance and elective practitioners. In addition to providers from the medical sector, there are plans to host a number of tenants from other industries such as banks and insurance companies. This will support the site’s continuing evolution by means of cross-sector cooperation.

Projects like this show the direction in which the healthcare sector in Austria is heading. For Strauss, their build and operation is part of the growing, strategically important healthcare construction sector. “PORR is and will remain a construction company with a focus on infrastructure. What’s less well known is that we’ve been involved in the design, build and integrated operation of healthcare facilities for 20 years and we actually operate seven rehab centres ourselves. The construction and management of healthcare centres requires a very high level of technical, economic and professional expertise, and that’s what we’re applying here”.

More info: MIA Gesundheitszentrum Liesing (in German) and welcome@miagesund.at