The nine-story Main Building, constructed in the early 1970s, featured a glass and aluminum curtain wall. SGH investigated water leakage and prepared repair concepts for the owner’s consideration.
The Nemours Children’s Hospital includes four buildings on a 60-acre campus. The two seven-story, cast-in-place concrete hospital and clinic buildings and two steel-framed, two-story structures for the central energy plant and loading dock/...
Menorah Home and Hospital wanted to update the appearance of their existing facility and improve the performance of the exterior wall system. They undertook a project to overclad the existing brick and concrete masonry facade with a new...
To serve its growing community, the University Hospital needed to expand. The University of Virginia (UVA) wanted to renovate the existing hospital and construct a new addition on the site of an adjacent, unused helipad. The project enlarges the...
A multi-building campus with a new seven-story hospital replaces the William Beaumont Army Medical Center at Fort Bliss. The new 125-bed hospital features a variety of building enclosure materials, including natural stone, metal panels, terra...
As part of their campus master plan, the medical center wanted to update their existing hospital to meet the latest in patient care standards. The new Robert E. and Holly D. Miller Building is a seven-story, 180,000 sq ft building with 128 single...
With the Sister Caritas Cancer Center, Mercy Medical Center expanded oncology services and consolidated their programs into one comprehensive space. SGH designed the structure for the two-story horizontal expansion.
As part of the facilities master plan, Maine Medical Center (MMC) identified the need to expand their surgical program. With a vertical addition to the second level of the L.L. Bean Building, MMC gained space within their existing hospital...
The Meehan Family Pavilion, an 88,000 sq ft addition, is Milford Regional Medical Center’s largest expansion to date. The medical center gains flexible space with this addition, allowing them to evolve with medical advances and continually...
The patients at Children’s National Health System’s main campus in Washington, D.C., needed fresh air. Going outside, however, is not always simple for hospitalized children, many of whom are not fully mobile or are connected to...
In addition to satisfying basic performance requirements, curtain walls installed in many health care and laboratory facilities are often required to meet more demanding performance requirements for durability, air and water...
SGH's Payal R. Vora and Jeffrey A. Bowlsby published a paper in the ASTM E06 Selected Technical Papers 1549. The paper, titled “The High Costs of Minimum Quality Cement Plaster (Stucco) Assemblies: A Performance Case Study...
On Jan. 12, 2010, a magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck the southwestern corner of the island of Hispanola, devastating the poorest nation in the western hemisphere. Before Haiti became associated with devastating earthquakes, Paul Fallon, a Boston-...
When discussing moisture-related problems in high-humidity buildings, natatoriums and museums typically come to mind as the most challenging building types. However, specific design requirements for temperature, relative humidity (RH), and air...
Abstract: Whether it's a 5,000-Sq.-ft addition or a $185 million free-standing building, most of the health care facilities we've designed during the past decade share the same lateral force resisting system: a steel moment frame.|This...