Andersen Construction Archives - HCO News https://hconews.com/tag/andersen-construction/ Healthcare Construction & Operations Tue, 14 May 2019 21:14:09 +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 Andersen Construction Archives - HCO News https://hconews.com/tag/andersen-construction/ 32 32 McCarthy/Andersen and SRG Partnership Design Highly Collaborative Cancer Research Center https://hconews.com/2018/09/25/mccarthy-andersen-and-srg-partnership-designs-highly-collaborative-cancer-research-center/ Tue, 25 Sep 2018 14:19:17 +0000 http://hconews.com/?p=44171 Construction workers, designers, engineers, employees, physicians, community members and donors of the OHSU Knight Cancer Research Building (KCRB) recently gathered to celebrate the ribbon cutting ceremony of the new $190 million research and development conference center.

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By Roxanne Squires

PORTLAND, Ore. – Construction workers, designers, engineers, employees, physicians, community members and donors of the OHSU Knight Cancer Research Building (KCRB) recently gathered to celebrate the ribbon cutting ceremony of the new $190 million research and development conference center.

The McCarthy and Andersen Construction partnership (McCarthy/Andersen), along with SRG Partnership, Inc. and Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) began construction in June 2016 and completed the project in August 2018.

The new building will facilitate up to 650 researchers and will serve as the center for the Knight Cancer Institute.

KRCB’s new 320,000-square-foot building’s design works to maintain two similar activities—collaborative work and casual social interaction along with bringing together some of the world’s leading researchers.

As cancer research requires integrated, multi-disciplinary teams – the building’s design concentrates on creating the most highly collaborative research environment possible.

SRG Partnership and workplace strategy consultant B+H Advance Strategy recognized both collaborative work and social interaction as a harmonizing tool in facilitating connections between diverse research teams.

“The focus on team science is evident in the building configuration, emphasizing connectivity through ‘neighborhoods’ and strategic laboratory and office adjacencies,” said Tim Evans, AIA, LEED AP, Principal, SRG Partnership.

The building encourages casual social interactions through various meeting attractions including cafés, a pub and an outdoor deck while a range of meeting spaces — small private rooms for individual work, casual spaces for conversation and more formal conference rooms—support different modes of work and connection.

The design trades the stereotypical dark, basement-like workspaces seen in many lab/research facilities for a softer, warmer space through the incorporation of glass and wood elements which helps to widen the space and provide access to natural light.

Outside views can be accessed from essentially any work station, offering an inviting and comfortable space for researchers in the facility.

“From a structural standpoint, the auditorium serves as a true engineering marvel,” said Richard Brecke, LEED AP, project director at McCarthy/Andersen. “Clear views of the entire room were deemed necessary for the functionality of the space and how it would be used. To ensure clear lines of sight, the team realized that removal of a major support column in the center of the auditorium needed to be accomplished without interfering with the building’s structural integrity.”

Brecke continued, explaining that with considerable latitude to identify optimal, value-driven solutions, the structural team designed and constructed the unique and innovative sixth-floor concrete transfer girder and hanging column, which goes down to the roof of the auditorium and holds up the floors above.

According to Brecke, the team achieved building completion by working with many local subcontractors, including Andersen Structures, Cherry City Electric, TCM, J.H. Kelly, Western States Fire Protection, Fred Shearer and Son, McDonald Excavating, General Sheet Metal, and Raimore Construction, a local minority-owned business that was responsible for managing the fabrication and erection of the steel.

“The project team took on an innovative approach to deliver KCRB through Integrated Project Delivery,” said Brecke. While using a ‘team build’ model, the multidisciplinary group made up of builders, architects, engineers and consultants worked together to maintain alignment on the project’s goals and guiding principles through all project phases in support of creating the “team science” facility.”

Brecke continued, stating that the cohesive environment emphasized by an on-site co-location facility, combined with tools including virtual reality and the use of lean construction methodology were instrumental in allowing McCarthy/Andersen to reach its full potential as an integrated design and construction team.

The building’s generator is also one KRCB’s most noteworthy technological features.

It’s sized to service the facility for 48 hours, and in the event of an emergency, the power company is given the ability to turn the generator on and redirect power back into the grid to provide the immediate community with power.

KCRB also touts a 10-gigabit network – significantly larger than the one gigabit network seen with most buildings – to aid the computational biology research that will take place. The incorporation of such a large network specifically grants computational biologists with added flexibility so they can collaborate with other teams and move about the building without issue.

Ultimately, it is the Knight Cancer Institute’s mission to use these advanced research facilities to put an end to cancer one and for all.

“We pledge to use this facility to end cancer as we know it,” Brian Druker, director of the OHSU Knight Cancer Institute said in a press release. “We will be reminded of our pledge each day as we work within these walls.”

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WhidbeyHealth Medical Center Expansion to Open This Fall https://hconews.com/2017/04/12/whidbeyhealth-medical-center-expansion-open-fall/ Wed, 12 Apr 2017 17:47:47 +0000 http://hconews.com/?p=42150 The WhidbeyHealth Medical Center in Coupeville is 75 percent complete on its hospital expansion.

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By Rachel Leber

COUPEVILLE, Wash. — The WhidbeyHealth Medical Center expansion in Coupeville is now 75 percent complete. The $50 million project began in September of 2015 and is slated for completion in early Oct. 2017.

The two-story, 60,000-square-foot project was designed by the Seattle office of HDR Architects and Engineering, with Andersen Construction (also in Seattle) serving as the general contractor, with George Senerth, director of facilities and plant engineering at WhidbeyHealth directing the project. Marc Estvold, an Anacortes architect, has been hired as a contract project manager on the project.

The two-story, 60,000-square-foot expansion has a budget of $50 million, with HDR Architects and Engineering’s Seattle office working as the architect on the project.

The new expansion will include 39 rooms for inpatients, observation and labor and delivery, according to Craig Holt, project executive at Andersen Construction. All patient rooms are single occupancy and are located at the perimeter of the building allowing natural light to enter the rooms while maintaining privacy, according to Holt. The previous patient rooms were 210 square feet, with the new single-patient rooms measuring at 280 square feet. Labor and delivery suites will also be larger at 392 square feet and 87-square-foot bathrooms, with large white soaking tubs. The new patient rooms will be large enough to include high-tech medical equipment and will include a private bathroom for each, with almost every room with a motorized lift above the bed.

The new wing is being constructed with smooth, non-porous walls and floors, increased hands-free sinks, and more airborne infection isolation rooms in an effort towards more infection-control. Instead of a large centralized desk as in the past, small work stations have been installed in the hallways directly outside patient doors to decrease time spent going back and forth. There is also a “nurse server” pass-through slot on patient doors, so supplies can be delivered to patients in a way that will offer the patients more privacy and rest. “Patients can expect a more healing environment when the medical center’s new wing opens in late spring,” said Geri Forbes, chief executive officer at WhidbeyHealth in a recent statement.

Each room has a “family zone,” with cushioned benches with cushions to provide seating and a place for a visitor to sleep overnight, and have been designed and standardized to have beds, cabinets and supplies all located in the same places to improve nurse and physician efficiency. The expansion is intended to upgrade overall patient services, and improve efficiency for hospital staff, according to Estvold in a recent statement.

The expansion is intended to upgrade overall patient services, and improve efficiency for hospital staff.
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“Great effort has been taken by the leadership of the hospital to include input from the entire team to guide the design and end use of the new space,” said Holt. The addition is two levels with the bottom level open for future expansion and the upper level for full use as patient rooms and supporting services, according to Holt.

The new wing will also be more energy-efficient with a lighting system that emulates the natural light from outside. Additionally, a variable refrigerant flow heat pump system is being installed by Coffman Engineers in Seattle, consultant to HDR Architecture on the project. The pump system will reduce the hospital’s energy use by 40 percent annually, and the combination of these sustainability measures will cut hospital energy costs by one third, according to Duncan Griffin, sustainable principal at HDR.

The hospital will receive an energy rebate from Puget Sound Energy in Bellevue, according to Griffin. Additionally, students with the University of Washington’s Integrated Design Lab in Seattle are tracking the project to gauge energy savings. “It’s been a goal for a long time to bring hospital energy performance to a more reasonable level,” said Griffin. “Hospitals are huge consumers of energy which can have a negative impact on the community. With the installation of good solar shading and a high efficiency mechanical system, we can achieve this, and conserve community resources in doing so.”

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