Rendering courtesy of Zimmer Gunsul Frasca Architects
- Firm’s role on the project: Mechanical engineering
- Type of facility: new 10-story, 730,000 SF critical care tower and central utility plant that will interface with the existing campus and new 985-car parking garage.
- Number of beds: 400+
- Specialty services (e.g. cancer center):
- Surgeries
- Pre- and post-operative support
- ICU
- Standard patient care
- New emergency department
- Date construction completed: Jan 2011 (est)
Project vision/goals
The facility design is utilizing the Green Guidelines for Healthcare as a basis for a sustainable approach to healthcare.
Unique to this project is a pandemic supply/exhaust system to exhaust the top patient floor quickly and control its pressure relationship to be negative to all other hospital floors in the event of an epidemic breakout among its patients, while providing the AIA recommended air change rate of 12 air changes per hour.
