BR+A Archives - HCO News https://hconews.com/tag/bra/ Healthcare Construction & Operations Mon, 28 Aug 2023 19:51:11 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.9 https://hconews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/cropped-HCO-News-Logo-32x32.png BR+A Archives - HCO News https://hconews.com/tag/bra/ 32 32 New Hampshire Hospital Launches Freshly Renovated ED https://hconews.com/2023/09/08/new-hampshire-hospital-launches-freshly-renovated-ed/ Fri, 08 Sep 2023 11:49:16 +0000 https://hconews.com/?p=48991 BOND Building Construction recently completed Phase 2 of an extensive 22,000-square-foot renovation and expansion project to Elliot Hospital's Emergency Department.

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By HCO Staff

MANCHESTER, N.H.—BOND Building Construction recently completed Phase 2 of an extensive 22,000-square-foot renovation and expansion project to Elliot Hospital’s Emergency Department. Steering the design-build effort, BOND Building worked closely and collaboratively with the hospital planning staff, architect, and engineers in a multi-phased approach to ensure seamless execution and negligible interference with the active Emergency Department, which maintained access 24/7 through all phases of construction.

The carefully planned project was executed with zero impact on Elliot’s Emergency Department operations, demonstrating BOND Building’s expertise in managing complex projects while maintaining critical services.

The designers for the project were e4H, Simon Design, Fuss & O’Neill, and BR+A.

Despite facing the challenge of construction starting on the cusp of the COVID-19 pandemic and a shutdown occurring merely weeks into mobilization, the project team exemplified extraordinary resilience and adaptability. Regrouping in Summer 2020, they undertook a comprehensive reassessment and redesign of project parameters, seamlessly integrating the most current COVID guidelines and incorporating lessons learned.

An investment of $750,000 was dedicated to COVID-related improvements, including installing UV lighting, negative air rooms, and isolated HVAC systems separate from the rest of the hospital. These improvements are based on future Facility Guidelines Institute (FGI) Guidelines that have not been adopted to date.

The successful completion of Phase 2 in 2023 signifies a major milestone in bolstering the capacity and capabilities of Elliot Hospital’s Emergency Department. This renovation and expansion project reflects BOND Building’s proficiency in handling intricate projects, ensuring minimal disruption to essential services, and ultimately enhancing the hospital’s ability to serve the community more effectively.

Facts:

  • 22,000 sq. ft. renovation
  • 24 months of construction
    • 3 enabling phases, 2 new construction phases, 1 backfill renovation phase
  • Mobilized in March 2020
    • Shut down 1 week later due to COVID-19 pandemic
    • Mobilized again in March 2021
    • Groundbreaking ceremony in June 2021
    • Phase 2 completed in April 2023
    • Newly renovated ED opened in June 2023
  • Built in parking lot in front of existing ED
  • Ledge removal required for mechanical basement, foundations, and parking lot
  • 32 private exam rooms
  • 3 trauma rooms
  • 10 rapid triage and treatment bays, allowing 8,000 more patients to be treated annually
  • 2 procedure bays
  • Radiology suite including X-ray
  • Relocated ambulance drive lane
  • Mass casualty capability for 5 trauma beds
  • Additional gas services in ceiling
  • Exterior surge tent

 

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New Hampshire Hospital Begins Emergency Department Expansion https://hconews.com/2021/06/28/new-hampshire-hospital-begins-emergency-department-expansion/ Mon, 28 Jun 2021 12:16:45 +0000 https://hconews.com/?p=46972 BOND Building Construction, Inc. (BOND Building) has officially broken ground on an emergency department expansion project for Elliot Hospital in Manchester.

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By HCO Staff

MANCHESTER, N.H.—BOND Building Construction, Inc. (BOND Building) has officially broken ground on an emergency department expansion project for Elliot Hospital in Manchester. The BOND Building project team and executives celebrated this milestone alongside elected officials, hospital leadership and other healthcare providers at a groundbreaking ceremony on Friday, June 18. Speakers included Joyce Craig, Mayor of Manchester, Dr. Greg Baxter, President of Elliot Health System, and Dr. Joseph Guarnaccia, Medical Director of the Emergency Department at Elliot Hospital.

“The new ED was designed to accommodate the needs of the growing Greater Manchester community by increasing bed capacity, providing advanced technology, and most importantly, providing increased privacy and safety within the busiest emergency department in the state,” said John Leary, RN, NR-P, TCRN, Director of Emergency Services at Elliot Hospital. “Further, the additional space will improve operational workflows for staff to provide outstanding care and document at the bedside. Our ED team collaborated in all phases of the design process to achieve the highest quality of patient care and safety for those we serve every day.”

BOND Building will provide design-build services for the 22,000-square-foot project. The phased renovation and addition will include three new trauma bays, 32 private rooms, four pediatric exam rooms, and six psychiatric evaluation rooms to treat the nearly 65,000 patients that visit Elliot’s emergency department every year. It will house acute treatment, circulation, nurse station and staff areas, reception and waiting, security, support space, and an X-ray machine.

The project was originally slated to begin last year but delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The additional time gave the design-build team an opportunity to redesign the reception, waiting room and triage areas as well as add a rapid treatment area to the floorplan. The modifications will allow the hospital to isolate infectious patients, increase ventilation and air filtration systems, and add additional oxygen ports to care for an increased number of patients, making it better equipped to handle future pandemics.

“We are grateful for the relationship we’ve built with Elliot Health System and value their partnership in delivering this cutting-edge project,” said Mike Walsh, Vice President of Healthcare & Life Sciences at BOND Building. “The emergency department expansion will ensure that Elliot is better equipped to provide outstanding care to its patients, and we’re proud to be working towards this vision.”

The designers for the project are e4H, Simon Design, Fuss & O’Neil and BR+A. The first phase, expected to be completed in February 2022, will include construction of the new building and moving reception, triage, and rapid triages areas into it. Phase two will include moving the rest of the emergency department and services into the building. The full project is expected to be completed in early 2023.

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University of Pennsylvania Held Groundbreaking Ceremony for New $1.5 Billion Hospital https://hconews.com/2017/06/20/university-pennsylvania-held-groundbreaking-ceremony-new-1-5-billion-hospital/ Tue, 20 Jun 2017 20:51:28 +0000 http://hconews.com/?p=42428 The University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia held a groundbreaking ceremony for its new hospital on May 3.

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By Rachel Leber

PHILADELPHIA — The University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia held a groundbreaking ceremony for its new hospital on May 3. The new “Pavilion” will be located on Penn Medicine’s West Philadelphia campus — located at the former site of Penn Tower — where it will house inpatient care for the Abramson Cancer Center, heart and vascular medicine and surgery, neurology and neurosurgery and a new emergency department. Completion of the new pavilion is expected in 2021.

Plentiful daylight and landscape views will be present in the new facility, with the intention of optimizing health and well being of its occupants.
Photo Credit (all): PennFIRST

The new, 16-story, 1.5 million-square foot facility has a budget of $1.5 billion. The design and construction of the project is a collaborative effort between multiple firms. PennFIRST, an integrated project delivery team in Philadelphia is completing the planning and design process for the new hospital with global health care design firm HDR, as well as the international architectural firm Foster + Partners. BR+A is the engineering designer, with construction management experts L.F. Driscoll in Bala Cynwyd and Balfour Beatty Construction in Dallas, also on the project. Additionally, Penn Medicine’s clinical and facilities experts are part of this collaborative team, as well as the input of patients and related family advocates.

The design team had the minimization of patient stress on the forefront of building design for the new facility, with a goal of maximizing patient care and treatment, according to Troy Parks, senior communications specialist at HDR. As such, the hospital is designed to divide into smaller “neighborhoods” to provide a greater sense of community, and create a warmer feeling overall for the hospital. Plentiful daylight and landscape views will be present at this new facility, with the intention of optimizing the health and wellbeing of its occupants, according to Parks.

The new Pavilion will have 500 new private patient rooms and 47 operating and interventional rooms. These patient rooms were designed with “long-term flexibility” so that they can adapt and change over time with “minimal impact to the building fabric,” according to Parks. The rooms are designed in such a way that they can transform from intensive care related needs to a standard room as patients recover over time. Additionally, all private patient rooms have a uniform design to maximize patient care, and include a private bath and a comfortable area for family members and visitors. Telemedicine technologies will be installed into each of the rooms to maximize patient and staff communication, as well as to make “multi-nodal” physician consultations possible.

The University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia held a groundbreaking ceremony for its new hospital on May 3.

The new hospital design includes a number of environmentally sustainable features, with LEED certification being pursued for construction of the new facility. Some of these sustainable features include the reuse of water, optimized access to daylight, 100 percent outside air, outdoor green space available building occupants and visitors, and overall high performance building envelope and mechanical systems. Additionally, the surrounding landscape was designed to create pedestrianized routes and landscaped gardens and plazas to enhance not only the patient experience, but also to enhance that of the surrounding community.

The new Pavilion is being designed with a network of public bridges and walkways that will not only make movement around the campus pleasant and easy, but will link the new facility to the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and the adjacent Perelman Center for Advanced Medicine. This network of walkways also easily leads building occupants to the local train station.

“As the nation’s oldest teaching hospital, the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania is rooted in a history of firsts going back nearly 150 years,” said Ralph W. Muller, chief executive officer of the University of Pennsylvania Health System in a recent statement. “Now, with the Pavilion, we’re poised for the next 100 years of advances in patient care,” said Muller.

 

 

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