Portland, ME
Maine Medical Center, Women and Infants Birthing Center
Scope/Solutions
SGH provided structural engineering services for several new buildings at Maine Medical Center. The project began with a new Women and Infants Birthing Center and led to additional phases of work, including a new parking garage, central utility plant, main lobby and lobby connectors, two-story pedestrian bridge, and a helipad located on the roof of an existing parking garage.
Highlights of our work on the various structures include the following:
- Women and Infants Birthing Center. SGH designed the structure for the new four-story, 200,000 sq ft Women and Infants Birthing Center to accommodate a future two-story, vertical expansion. We designed a structural steel superstructure with a welded moment frame lateral-load-resisting system that bears on cast-in-place concrete foundation walls around the two below-grade basement levels.
- Parking Structure. The new parking garage is a 220,000 sq ft, eight-story precast concrete structure built into a steep hillside, requiring a 50 ft permanent earth-retention system. SGH provided a design review and recommended modifications to the 50 ft permanent earth-retention system that allowed the precast concrete garage to be designed as if it were located on a flat site.
- Central Utility Plant. SGH designed the new two-story central utility plant with considerations for a future two-story vertical expansion and also designed a temporary earth retention system to facilitate construction into a steep hill. We designed foundation walls, interior concrete shear walls, and steel braced frames, which serve as the building’s lateral-force-resisting system and the permanent earth-retention system.
- Helipad. SGH designed the structures and access bridge on the roof of the existing parking garage to accommodate a helipad, which raised the hospital’s level of care to a Trauma One center.
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Project Summary
2009
Completion Date
Solutions
New Construction
Services
Structures
Markets
Health Care & Life Sciences
Client(s)
TRO Jung|Brannen Inc.
Specialized Capabilities
Building Design
Key team members
Additional Projects
Northeast
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Klarman Building, Boston, MA
SGH provided structural, building enclosure consulting, commissioning, and construction phase services for the 384,000 sq ft Klarman Building featuring a rooftop helipad and podium-level healing garden
Northeast
Maine Medical Center, Malone Family Tower Excavation
As part of Maine Medical Center’s phased plan to expand and modernize the facility, they repurposed the site of a parking structure to construct a new six-story medical building. SGH provided geotechnical and structural engineering services to design a permanent support of excavation system (SOE).