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The Surgical
Specialties Wing and In-Patient Care Unit Moser Pilon Nelson completed designs this spring for a new Surgical Specialties Wing and In-Patient Care renovations at the Veteran’s Hospital. The Surgical Specialties Wing renovation project will expand and consolidate the Urology Clinic. Currently, Urology Clinic operations are split between Building 1, 2nd floor and Building 2, 4th floor. This project will consolidate operations in Building 1, 2nd floor, south and east wings. This consolidation will require relocating the current occupants of the above space, including Biomedical Repair, and the Electric shop. Total project scope is approximately 13,400 SF of renovation. The project is a complete interior renovation of the existing space that was constructed over 50 years ago and has occupied spaces above and below. Proposed services include ten exam rooms, three minor procedure rooms and associated support spaces. The In-Patient Unit project will renovate approximately 12,000 SF of floor area on the 6th floor of the east and south wings of Building One. The new 23-bed medical - surgical inpatient unit will replace the current 4th floor 30-bed unit. The new suite will provide for nine single bed rooms and seven 2-bed rooms. All rooms will provide for private toilet rooms and showers. The design accommodates new modern standards of care and will provide for greater patient privacy and dignity as well as increased staff efficiency. The project will be constructed as a single phase requires extensive coordination with the fully occupied floors above and below.
Indian Valley YMCA Construction is currently underway for the new Indian Valley YMCA with occupancy anticipated in the fall of 2010. The new 42,000 SF facility will include an 8-lane, 25-yard competition pool and a warm water family pool and whirlpool. The facility also includes a 5,000 SF fitness area plus spinning and aerobic rooms and associated support spaces. The project was designed to utilize "Good Design Practice" and to utilize "Green" architecture. Utilized green features include:
The project was planned to allow for future expansion to over 65,000 SF which includes a gymnasium, teen center, climbing wall, and community spaces.
Berkshire School Planning is underway for a new 12 Court Squash Center and a Living Laboratory community learning garden at the Berkshire School. The new court complex will convert four existing plaster courts to ASB (a German-made prefabricated system) and add eight more. One court will be a fully glazed ASB Exhibition Court System. The Squash Center site will include a number of sustainable design initiatives including rainwater cisterns collecting roof runoff for the gardens, a bioswale to treat parking area runoff, an experimental orchard, test growing plots and learning gardens.
Tufts University Construction was recently completed for the Phase I renovations to the Cousens Gymnasium at Tufts University. This original, historic 1938 building's basketball gymnasium was rotated 90 degrees to accommodate a 94' long (NCAA standard) basketball game court and double volleyball and basketball practice courts with a complete new maple floor. The project required the demolition of the original cast in place concrete bleachers and replacement with new retractable units allowing a larger practice surface. The Cousens lobby and entry plaza were restored and made accessible with a new exterior ramp system designed to be integral with the historic and monumental entry steps. Phase 2 plans have been developed for comprehensive renovations and additions to the adjacent Ames Center Athletics Complex anticipating fundraising for a new fitness, strength and conditioning center, multi-purpose activity rooms, squash center, sports medicine suite, equipment management and laundry, varsity locker rooms, administrative and coaches offices, a new 50-meter natatorium with associated support facilities including 1000 spectator seats.
Upper Valley Aquatic
Center The 40,000 SF aquatic center program includes two natatoria with separate atmospheres maintaining different water and air temperatures. The first contains a 10 lane 25-meter by 11 lane 25-yard competition pool and a 300-seat upper level spectator gallery. The second encloses a leisure pool with three 25-yard warm-up lanes, several water slides, fountains, a lazy river, and an activity room for group rental events. Completing the project are a fitness center and day care center. During mild seasonal weather, perimeter doors and an operable roof allow the aquatic center’s natatoria to become “outside” pools.
A.I. Prince Technical
High School Construction for the A.I. Prince Technical High School was recently completed. This project entailed comprehensive renovations and additions to transform an aging, circa 1959 facility into a new state-of-the-art-technical high school serving the City of Hartford and the surrounding communities.
Specialty Clinic
Consolidation This project included programming, master planning, final design and construction phase services for major renovations to relocate and consolidate outpatient clinics without interruption of the current and planned clinical operations. The new 11,000 SF ophthalmology clinic is projected to serve 20,000 patients per year and contains 25 new patient exam rooms and associated clinical spaces with additional spaces for staff support. Moser Pilon Nelson, working closely with the clinical staff and hospital administration, developed and tested multiple space programs which potentially impacted four stories of the existing five story building, ultimately arriving at the optimum location and construction phasing plan for each clinic, while maintaining a mandated construction budget. During this process, multiple alternative space plans were developed and reviewed with the clinical staff to resolve both current and anticipated future needs. The resulting final design allowed the VA to build out their new program in phases which minimized both the time and cost of the entire project. The final plan located departments on two of the five floors and required construction of both new and modified mechanical spaces to provide support systems for the new clinics. Demolition was required of existing outdated construction back to the original structural frame, creating completely new spaces including new interior partitions, finishes and MEP systems. Construction is anticipated to be completed in 2011.
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