building total area
273,000 SF
completion date
2012
total construction cost
$149,802,585
owner
University of Washington Medical Center
a/e team
NBBJ Architects
construction team
Skanska, USA
project description
The project programmed, designed and constructed a new building addition directly south of the Medical Center’s Pacific Tower on Columbia Road. The expansion was planned for two phases. Phase One included a hospital addition of approximately 163,000 gross square feet (GSF), including a complete mechanical/electrical interstitial level, mechanical basement, and penthouse spaces approximately 10,000 GSF of loading dock and interior renovations and connections to the existing hospital towers; and substantial on-site emergency power, chilled water, and oxygen system infrastructure. This phase provided a new 50-bed Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), a 32-bed adult surgical oncology unit, diagnostic imaging expansion, shelled space for eight future operating rooms, three shelled entire bed floors, a reconfigured loading dock, and mechanical and electrical infrastructure for current and future expansion needs. Phase Two, a future project, would add up to four additional floors for acute care nursing units.
services provided
WJC provided full building commissioning services including architectural, mechanical, and electrical systems commissioning. WJC provided design review, developed commissioning specifications, basis of design documentation, commissioning installation audits, startup oversight, commissioning functional performance testing oversight, O&M documentation review, Owner training oversight, and general commissioning oversight for the project.
systems tested
Emergency lighting and signage, fire alarm system, combination fire/smoke dampers and fire doors, fire sprinklers, stairwell shaft pressurization, elevator shaft pressurization, active smoke control, ductwork distribution systems, steam and condensate systems, heating hot water systems, chilled water systems, including heat recovery chillers, supply air handling unit systems, general exhaust heat recovery air handling systems, isolation room exhaust fan systems, chiller room ventilation and emergency purge systems, mechanical room ventilation system, main electrical room ventilation system, loading dock exhaust fan, MRI ventilation and purge exhaust system, fan coil units, hot water unit heaters, room level HVAC, DDC controls commissioning, domestic hot water and preheat systems, fuel oil systems, lighting control systems, emergency power systems, blackout, recovery test and generator plant.