The new socio health centre of Calahorra pioneered thermal use of the subsoil to generate energy.

-Viamed group made an investment of 5.3 million euros in the construction of this new Centre which incorporates an innovative system of geothermal energy

– as part of the energy project of the CenterIt has designed a geothermal installation that will take advantage of the stable temperature of the soil to provide warmth in winter and cool in summer.

Calahorra, 2011-December The new Viamed our Lady Virgin of the Carmen de Calahorra socio-health center, which will open in 2012, will be pioneered the use of geothermal energy, from the stable temperature of the subsoil to generate energy to provide the new Center heat in summer and cold in winter.

The project aims to reduce the energy cost of the Centre through the use of geothermal permanently. The system has been developed and implemented by the GEOTER company, within the framework of the Geotcasa programme, promotion of geothermal energy that drives the IDAE (Institute for diversification and energy savings).

According to sources from the direction of the Centre, the geothermal project of Viamed to Calahorra relies on 25 110 m deep boreholes. Each one of them introduces two pipes of drive and two return are filled with water in order to create a circuit that allows to take advantage of the stable subsurface temperature.

The “geothermal response test” conducted on the ground have been validated capacity termofísica of the plot for a period of 25 years, for which the energy sustainability of the project is guaranteed.

About three kilometres of pipes under the ground be channelled in two collectors which communicated with the building, where the key element of the whole process will be installed: a geothermal pump that will take advantage of the stable temperature of the water from underground to generate heat in winter and cool in summer.

In addition, an extensive network of pipelines within the socio-health center channelled hot water, cooling and sanitary water. On the other hand, the provision of floor heating in the entire building will ensure an adequate air conditioning, additional installation geothermal to work in low temperature without radiators.

New Centre partner-sanitary in Calahorra

The new socio-health centre Viamed our Lady Virgin of Carmen of Calahorra La Rioja open in 2012, after an investment of more than EUR 5 million and will result in the creation of new 70 jobs.

With this new Centre Viamed will culminate the network of socio-health centres of the group in La Rioja, complementing those they already manages in Haro, Los Jasmine; and in Logroño, with the Valvanera clinic.

The new Center, located next to the Hospital Calahorra, will serve 75 patients requiring socio-health care; so it should not necessarily require hospital care, but that does require attention and care specific.

Group Viamed has 10 hospitals and partner health in all Spain, in La Rioja, Aragon, Andalusia, Murcia and Madrid; with over 1,000 beds and the creation of more than 2,000 jobs in recent years.

The private health care group is led by highly qualified professionals and with great experience and knowledge of the health care sector and management also boasts solvent funding, supported by some of the main investment deprived in the country.

The expansion of group Viamed has allowed to have in any Spain with surgical hospitals, hospitals of medium and long stay of internal medicine and Geriatrics, units of biomedical research and technology, Monográficas units of Alzheimer’s disease, socio-health centers for dependents, outpatient centers, transportation health and services.