SAN DIEGO-McCarthy Building Cos. Inc. has completed construction of the new 279,000-square-foot Rady Childrens Hospital Acute Care Pavilion, located at 3020 Childrens Way in the Kearny Mesa area of San Diego. Designed by the San Francisco office of Anshen+Allen, the new $260 million Acute Care Pavilion is the first acute care facility in the state to meet the standards for quality and safety mandated by the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development, while also achieving the level of occupant health and environmental sustainability required to earn LEED-Certified status, according to a prepared statement.
The facility will be equipped and staffed to receive patients on Oct. 10, 2010. “Construction oversight of OSHPD facilities adds a heightened level of complexity to already complicated healthcare construction projects in California, based on the states strict criteria for passing project inspections, reviews and approvals,” says Dan Stone of CCQA Inc., inspector-of-record for the project.
OSHPD oversight of California hospitals stems from the 1971 Sylmar earthquake, which caused several hospitals to collapse, and hampered the hospitals ability to provide emergency care to the injured. In 1973 the state of California passed the Alfred E. Alquist Hospital Seismic Safety Act and, ever since, construction of acute care and psychiatric hospitals, as well as multi-story skilled nursing homes and intermediate care facilities, in the state has been governed by this legislation. The standards not only help enforce patient safety during the earthquake, but also ensure that facilities can continue to function and care for the injured following earthquakes, according to the release.
For the Acute Care Pavilion, Rady Childrens Hospital, which GlobeSt.com previously reported on, employed one onsite inspector-of-record and three field inspectors. McCarthy served the integral role of working through all construction issues, developing proactive solutions, documenting every discussion and construction activity, and communicating with OSHPD inspectors, who visited the site three times a week. According the McCarthy, “not a single detail of the project could afford to be overlooked, from the drilling operation that involved the installation of individual 60-foot-deep by eight-inch-wide holes to accommodate seismic tie-down rods, to the torque of each bolt. Building Information Modeling allowed the construction team to address many of the seismic issues.”
Rady Childrens Hospital is the only dedicated child-specific medical center in the San Diego region. The new Acute Care Pavilion was built on a 148,650-square-foot site at the southeast end of the hospital campus, adjacent to the existing Rose Pavilion. Second- and third-floor bridges and a ground-floor walkway connect the existing facility to the new four-story building.
When equipped, the Acute Care Pavilion will house a much-needed surgical center, 84 medical-surgical beds, a neonatal intensive care unit and a cancer center. It also will provide 16 operating rooms with associated support departments, a 28-bed hematology and oncology unit, and a 10-bed bone marrow transplant intensive care unit.
Rady Childrens Hospital has been committed to incorporating green practices throughout its operations for many years, so when it came time for us to expand, we set on a mission to become the largest children's hospital in the state with a world-class LEED Certified facility, says Tim Jacoby, vice president of facilities for Rady Childrens Hospital, who led the team collaboration.
KPFF of San Francisco served as the structural engineer; RBF, San Diego, civil engineer; Randall Lamb, San Diego, electrical engineer; Shadpour Consulting Engineers, San Diego, mechanical engineer; and Royston Hanamoto Alley & Abey of Mill Valley was the landscape architect.
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