LOS ANGELES-The $150-million Martin Luther King, Jr. Multi-Service Ambulatory Care Center, which the design-build team of McCarthy Building Cos. Inc. and HDR Architecture Inc. began construction on recently, is being designed to meet LEED Gold standards. The 132,550-square-foot facility is currently scheduled for an early completion in July 2013.
The four-story medical facility will house five operating rooms, dentistry, oncology and physical and occupational therapy services. Additionally, the project will include 10 acres of site parking and landscape, offsite signalization and street improvements, as well as a 31,000-square-foot LEED Silver-rated renovation to existing administration space.
“The MLK, Jr. Multi-Service Ambulatory Care Center project will provide a necessary upgrade for how healthcare is delivered to the community, says Curtis Lockwood, VP of HDR. “The new facility will be key to delivering outpatient care and connecting the inpatient and outpatient services to the new state-of-the-art facilities.”
Located on the existing Martin Luther King, Jr. Medical Center campus fronting on 120th St. in the Willowbrook community, the project is highlighted by a mix of modern green features and sophisticated Building Information Modeling.
“The BIM process is currently in progress,” says Michael Wiggins, McCarthy’s project director. “All major subcontractors participate in 3D coordination of systems to avoid issues in the field, and the project team is using a web-based paperless submittal system and will provide the owner with an electronic facility maintenance guide at closeout.”
Wiggins says coordination meetings are being conducted in a BIM collaboration room called BIM Theater, and the team is using modeling software such as Revit, Navis Works and AutoCad, among others.
To meet the environmentally tough standards of LEED Gold, the center will pursue a variety of LEED credits including the use of products with recycled content, locally manufactured products, 95% construction-waste-stream recycling, elimination of light pollution, water-use restriction and an elaborate rainwater recycling program.
“One of the most interesting green features on this project is the onsite storm-water retention system,” says Wiggins. “This recharge system allows storm water to go into the soil beneath the parking lots as opposed to being discharged offsite.” Wiggins says the water-containment feature was designed to hold a typical 10-year storm, or about 1 in. of rainfall over the site.
The project will be built with a conventional foundation on concrete piers, and a structural-steel moment-frame with concrete-filled metal deck. The public-facing fa
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Carrie Rossenfeld
Carrie Rossenfeld is a reporter for the San Diego and Orange County markets on GlobeSt.com and a contributor to Real Estate Forum. She was a trade-magazine and newsletter editor in New York City before moving to Southern California to become a freelance writer and editor for magazines, books and websites. Rossenfeld has written extensively on topics including commercial real estate, running a medical practice, intellectual-property licensing and giftware. She has edited books about profiting from real estate and has ghostwritten a book about starting a home-based business.
