SMBH

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Healthcare

Diley Ridge Medical Center

Location:
Canal Winchester, Ohio

Architect:
DesignGroup

LEED Certification:
LEED Gold Certified

Construction Cost:
$17.5 million

Project Size:
66,000 SF

The new Diley Ridge Medical Center is a joint venture of Mount Carmel Health System and Fairfield Medical Center. It is the first free-standing emergency and diagnostic center in central Ohio. Built to fill the void of medical facilities between Lancaster and Columbus, the center serves patients throughout northern Fairfield County, including the communities of Pickerington, Groveport, Canal Winchester, Carroll, Baltimore, and Violet Township.
The 36,000-square-foot single-story building is designed for one additional floor. It houses a full-service, 24-hour emergency department with a full clinical laboratory, a state-of-the-art imaging center, and women’s health services. The emergency center also includes a 10-bed unit for patients who require observation and monitoring.

The building structure was designed to accommodate a future floor and additions to the south and west. The lobby features a two-story high clerestory with an exterior two-story high curtain wall. Structural challenges on the project included two free-standing canopies. The entry canopy is two stories tall and supported on four columns, and the emergency entry canopy is self-supporting on only two columns.

The project has achieved LEED® Gold certification and is Ohio's first health care facility to achieve this designation.

Diley Ridge Medical Center

Fairfield Medical Center Surgery Addition

Location:
Lancaster, State

Architect:
DesignGroup

Construction Cost:
$27 million

Project Size:
 80,000 SF

The project is a new two-story building with a basement that functions as a surgery and patient room addition located between the main hospital and the existing pavilion surgery building.  The basement encompasses 16,000 square feet, the first-floor surgery is 28,600 square feet, and the 30-bed nursing unit on the second floor occupies 23,500 square feet.  A six-story connector building will link the new addition with the existing hospital at the basement, first-floor, and third-floor levels.  Additional work will include modifications to an entrance, infrastructure support, and renovation in the existing pavilion and existing surgery suits.  Project Bright (Building, Revitalize, and Innovate for Greater Healthcare Tomorrow) expanded the hospital’s ability to serve the people of Fairfield County as they entered the hospital centennial in 2016.

Fairfield Medical Center

Nationwide Children’s Hospital – Research Building 3

Location:
Columbus, Ohio

Architect:
NBBJ

Construction Cost:
$80 million

Project Size:
235,000 SF

Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, values itself as being a place where a child can receive the best care anywhere in the world. The hospital says it’s “the place where curing and caring go hand-in-hand.” It’s a mission important to the hospital and the people of Columbus. To uphold this pledge, a massive expansion of the hospital’s current facilities was needed.

The $1 billion expansion consists of several facilities; a new main hospital, a Clinical Research center, a West Campus research center, expanded green space, a Livingston Avenue garage, a central energy plant, and the Ronald McDonald House. The expansion was done in phases over several years. Recently, the hospital completed another phase, Research Building 3, part of West Campus.

This project is a 6-story, $80 million building that grew the existing research campus at Nationwide Children’s Hospital. The 235,000-square-foot building houses research laboratories and clinical space.

SMBH worked closely with the owner, Construction Manager, and design team to determine the most appropriate structural system for the building. After looking at numerous systems, a cast-in-place concrete, post-tensioned system was chosen. This system provides a cost-effective, shallow structure that allows for lower floor-to-floor heights and the performance that the owner requires.

NCH - Research Building 3

Wheeling Hospital

Location:
Wheeling, West Virginia

Architect:
Stantec and Dan Carmichael

Construction Cost:
$67+ million

Our firm has been working at Wheeling Hospital for over 30 years, and we have been the structural engineer for every major project on their campus. We have been involved with over 65 projects with a combined total construction cost of $67,850,000. Wheeling Hospital provides premium healthcare to residents of the Northern Panhandle of West Virginia and Eastern Ohio with two hospitals, two clinics, four outpatient centers, a continuous care center, and a wellness center. From labor and delivery to specialized rehabilitation, the hospital and its affiliates have an excellent reputation for treating patients of all ages.

Our Wheeling Hospital project experience includes Medical Office Buildings, Patient Towers, Emergency Department additions, and parking garage studies. The challenging soil conditions in the Wheeling area required that we find creative, cost-effective structural solutions to help ensure that the projects stayed on budget.

Exterior photo of the tower at Wheeling Hospital in Wheeling, West Virginia.