Medical Construction & Design

MAR-APR 2017

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16 Medical Construction & Design | M A RCH /A PR IL 2017 | MCDM AG.COM AWARDS Children's Richmond at VCU Project Team Earns Engineering Excellence Award The American Council of Engineering Companies of Virginia bestowed the 2017 Pinnacle Award to Dunbar Milby William Pittman & Vaughan and Schnabel Engineering at the Engineering Excellence Awards Gala held recently. The Pinnacle Award recognizes projects demonstrating innovation, complexity, achievement and value to the industry. DMWPV and Schnabel were awarded for their work on Children's Hospital of Richmond at VCU, a new 640,000-square- foot outpatient facility dedicated to children in the region and serves as a gateway to the urban VCU medical campus. DMWPV provided structural engineer- ing and Schnabel provided geotechnical and geostructural engineering for this project. The project included de- molishing the southern half of the existing Children's Pavilion to make way for four stories of new construction below grade and 11 stories above, occupying more than two-thirds of the city block. Excavation extended up to 35 feet below the foundations of the existing pavilion and 55 feet deep below a busy street. The design accommodates future expansion of up to seven more fl oors above grade and expansion of the below-grade levels to the north, occupying the entire block. Building on the same block while the existing pavilion was open and opera- tional throughout construction required careful planning and innovative engineering. Industry news, awards, etc. Construction was recently complet- ed, and honored, of a new tier III data center as part of the two-phase reno- vation of a 1930's, 57,000-square-foot building for Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center, located in downtown Hartford, Connecticut. The Design-Build project team consisted of S/L/A/M Construc- tion Services, Quisenberry Arcari Architects and electrical designer, J.P. Engineering LLC. The team was honored with a 2016 Silver Award for Building Construction from the Design-Build Institute of America New England Region. The awards program was judged by a panel of experts that focused on the practices that constitute "design-build done right." The tier III requirements included multiple redundant utility feeds, com- munications, cooling systems and standby power. Uninterruptible power was provided by duel uninterrupt- ible power systems feeding the data center load until the three 750 kw generators were online. ASHRAE Seeks Participants, Presenters for New 2017 Conference ASHRAE is seeking pre- senters for its new Build- ing Performance Analysis Conference, as well as teams for its annual Low- Down Showdown model- ing competition. The ASHRAE Building Perfor- mance Analysis Confer- ence takes place Sept. 27-29 in Atlanta, Georgia. The modeling competi- tion is part of that event. The conference highlights best practices, workfl ows and processes required to plan, design, construct and operate high-performing, low energy-consuming build- ings. A call for presenters is open for presentations that address topics of interest to practitioners, modelers and design- ers. Visit ashrae.org. STATS: 640,000 SQUARE FEET > ENGINEERING: DMWPV & SCHNABEL ENGINEERING > FACILITY TYPE: URBAN OUTPATIENT CENTER Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center Data Center Project Complete, Receives DBIA Award From left: Eugene Torone, DBIA, president of S/L/A/M Construction Services, Chris O'Neill, AIA, architect at Quisenberry Arcari Architects, LLC and Keith Poulin, associate at CDM Smith, executive council vice president and board treasurer of DBIA New England receiving the 2016 Silver Award for Building Construction from the DBIA New England Region.

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