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Wyandot Memorial Hospital Addition

Wyandot Memorial Hospital

Wyandot Memorial Hospital Addition

Location:
Upper Sandusky, Ohio

Architect:
App Architecture

Construction Cost:
$10.82 million

Project Size:
400,000 SF

LEED Certification:
LEED / Sustainable Design

Wyandot Memorial Hospital has serviced the Upper Sandusky area since 1950. The facility provides inpatient and outpatient care with a 24-hour a day emergency department. The renovation includes a 29,500 square foot, three-story medical office building with a new sleep lab, nuclear medicine lab, physical therapy center and a relocated wellness center. An 8,500 square foot two-story addition expands the emergency department. A 2,000 square foot atrium was added to the existing facility. A 43-foot tall iconic masonry tower is located between the new medical office building and the emergency department expansion and helps patients locate the main entrance. The hospital added 3 covered drop-off canopies at the new facility and one covered drop-off canopy at the existing facility. Renovation in the existing facility includes the addition of a MRI room and a PET/CT scan room as well as additional medical equipment that is suspended from the ceiling. The medical office building was redesigned with a ground floor reinforced concrete two-way slab on deep foundations after the initial earth work encountered large pockets of highly compressible organic material. The design team worked with the owner, contractor and fabricator in providing cost estimates and near-daily design releases for a two week period so that the construction continued without lost time on the schedule.

Wheeling Hospital Tower 5

Wheeling Hospital

Wheeling Hospital Tower 5

Location:
Wheeling, West Virginia

Architect:
Stantec

Construction Cost:
$42 million

Project Size:
150,000 SF

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. With two hospitals, two clinics, four outpatient centers, a continuous care center and wellness center, Wheeling Hospital provides premium healthcare to residents of the Northern Panhandle of West Virginia and Eastern Ohio. From labor and delivery to specialized rehabilitation, the hospital and its affiliates have an excellent reputation for treating patients of all ages.

Committed to providing excellent care, the hospital had outgrown their current emergency department so they opted to expand their facility to better serve the community. This seven-story addition is the first multi-story addition to the hospital in several years and is extremely visible when entering the hospital campus. Therefore, the design of the structure was critical to the project’s success.

One major challenge for this project was connecting to the existing buildings that surrounded this new tower. There is the original, six-story hospital tower to the east. A one-story addition to the south had one room that needed to remain operational during construction, and there was the existing loading dock roof that required a new ambulance bay and generator room above. SMBH paid special attention to these details and coordinated extensively with the architect to overcome this challenge.

In addition, the site is on expansive shale bedrock, so deep foundations and special detailing was required to prevent damage from the expansive soils. The key to success on this project was the excellent communication and collaborative spirit between all members of the design team.

Mother Angeline McCrory Manor

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Mother Angeline McCrory Manor

Location:
Columbus, Ohio

Architect:
THW Design

Construction Cost:
$11 million

Project Size:
140,000 SF

With the baby boom generation aging, there has been a tremendous need for skilled nursing facilities that provide a safe and inviting environment. Owned by the Carmelite Sisters of the Aged and Infirm in cooperation with the Diocese of Columbus, the facility was designed to inspire a home-like feeling. The structure is a four-story precast floor system bearing on masonry walls. Connected by walkways are a steel framed chapel and a wood framed residence to house the Carmelite Sisters. The Manor was built on caisson foundations and utilized high-strength masonry units. As the project engineer, SMBH faced several challenges including a steep roof slope for the chapel and an exposed structure city scene gathering space.

An additional challenge included incorporating open community spaces on the first floor with masonry bearing walls on the above floors. Understanding that early coordination is critical for projects with heavy structures like this one, SMBH held several planning meetings with other members of the design and construction team to ensure the design was as efficient as possible.

Bowling Green State University Falcon Health Center Wood County Hospital

BGSU - Falcon Health Center Wood County Hospital

Falcon Health Center

Bowling Green State University

Location:
Bowling Green, Ohio

Architect:
DesignGroup

Construction Cost:
$5 million

Project Size:
20,000 SF

BGSU Student Health Service provides accessible, caring, high-quality, confidential, cost-effective health care services to a diverse student population. The Student Health Service strives to be the health care provider of choice for all BGSU students and to be the nationwide model of a successful, quality student health service. Wood County Hospital collaborated with BGSU to build the Falcon Health Center. This project is a 20,000 square foot, two story Health Center that serves the medical needs of students.

To meet an abbreviated schedule, we quickly identified the critical path components in the building. Structural steel was identified as the main component that had to be on schedule for the building to open on time. The schedule required that structural steel design be done at the same time that the building was being designed. This required the team to make quick, decisive choices about the floor plan and locations of the main structural components so that steel design could be completed. To meet the schedule, the steel was designed in two stages. The main building frame was issued five weeks after programming was completed. The foundation drawings were issued a week later and the balance of the structural steel framing, which consists of items that required coordination with MEP and architectural design, were issued three weeks after the main frame was issued.

Site construction began in January 2013 with an on time completion in August 2013.