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Oakland University – Human Health Building

Oakland University’s new Human Health Building will bring the Schools of Nursing and Health Sciences under one roof to foster multidisciplinary collaboration. The scope of this project includes a $1.1 Million design to budget for educational technology systems. Convergent Technologies is providing audiovisual systems design services for simulation systems and multimedia presentation systems. The five-story building will feature an Interactive Media Center, Public Health Clinic and Distance Learning capabilities. Spaces to receive audiovisual systems include 200-seat Auditorium, General Classrooms, Seminar Room, Distance Learning Education Center, Conference Rooms, Teaching Labs, Simulation Labs, Collaborative Group Spaces, Control Rooms, Debriefing Rooms, and Common Area/Lobby Displays. Teaching spaces throughout the building include labs for Musculoskeletal, Metabolic, Exercise Science, Nurses Patient Care Practice, Nursing Basic Health Assessment, Therapeutic Exercise Intervention, Wellness, Neurological Rehabilitation, Occupational Safety & Health Robotics and Protection, and Industrial Hygiene. Specified educational technology systems: healthcare observation & recording, digital audio/video capture with streaming capabilities to the Local Area Network (LAN), distance learning, digital annotation, audiovisual presentation, program/speech audio reinforcement and custom instructor’s stations. Project opportunities include creating state-of-the-art medical simulation, instructional and collaborative spaces and integrating digital media and streaming presentation technologies into the architectural fabric of the building. This project is currently in the design phase with completion scheduled for 2012.

 

Architect: SmithGroup

Departments:

  • Physical Therapy
  • Safety Management
  • Occupational Safety & Health
  • Wellness
  • Health Promotion & Injury Prevention
  • Medical Laboratory Sciences
  • Applied Health Sciences
  • Health Sciences
  • Exercise Sciences
  • Nursing

Location: Rochester, Michigan
Construction Cost: $62 Million

Gross Square Footage: 160,000 gross square feet

LEED: Platinum

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McLaren Healthcare – Proton Therapy Center

[col3]Convergent Technologies is providing complete design services for emergency paging audio, intercom, video surveillance (CCTV), access control/intrusion detection, and treatment room status area displays for the new McLaren Healthcare Proton Therapy Center. Once complete, the McLaren Proton Therapy Center will be the first proton beam therapy center in Michigan, and one of nine in the entire country. It is projected to treat patients throughout Michigan, as well as Canada and surrounding states. The Center is said to be representative of the future of proton therapy with its apprehensible advances in design and technology. The types of spaces receiving technology systems design include: patient treatment areas, control rooms, treatment imaging room, reception, examining rooms, procedure rooms, nurses’ workrooms, and executive offices. This project is currently in the Construction Administration Phase.[/col3]

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Architect: Bard, Rao + Athanas Consulting Engineers, PC

Location: Flint, Michigan
Construction Cost: $65 MILLION
Gross Square Footage: 52,000 square feet

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University of MD, Biopark – Forensics Medical Center

[col3]A new forensics center for the State of Maryland Medical Examine’s Office will be located at the University of Maryland’s new BioPark campus. Due to the limited capacity of the current facility the medical examiner’s office has been unable to keep up with demand for its services. The 120,000-square-foot building will be the largest of its kind in the nation. The scope of this project includes complete design services for acoustics, noise & vibration control. Space plans include a Biosafety Level 3 laboratory, Pathology Exhibit, Conference/Media Briefing rooms, Toxicology, Training spaces, Histology Lab, Neuropathology Lab, Autopsy, and offices for the Chief and Deputy Chief Medical Examiners. Design responsibilities include a review of building criteria as they applied to acoustics, noise and vibration control for all acoustically sensitive spaces. Special consideration was given to sound isolation for private offices, the Toxicology Lab, the Histology Lab and Autopsy offices. Acoustical services included room reverberation control, HVAC system noise control, Airborne sound isolation, Impact sound isolation, and Noise ordinance compliance design. This project is expected to complete construction in 2010.[/col3]

[col3]Architect: Gaudreau, Inc.
Location: Baltimore, Maryland

Construction Cost: $54 MILLION
Gross Square Footage: 120,000 square feet

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Mercy Medical Center – Mary Catherine Bunting Center

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LOCATION:
Baltimore, Maryland

ARCHITECT:
Ellerbe Becket

CONSTRUCTION COST:
$292 Million

GROSS SQUARE FOOTAGE:
672,000 gsf

 

The scope of this project includes complete design services for telecommunications (voice/data) cabling systems, cable antenna television (CATV) systems, closed circuit video systems (CCTV), and acoustics, noise & vibration control for the new Mercy Medical Center replacement patient tower located in downtown Baltimore. The new 160-bed tower will house an emergency department, surgery department, intensive care unit, orthopedic medical/surgical units, obstetrics, neo-natal ICU, post-partum unit, imaging department, and out-patient services. Project opportunities include the design of a universal patching approach for voice and data station cabling to accommodate Voice Over Internet Protocol (VOIP), an IP addressable CCTV system monitored over the hospital’s Local Area Network (LAN), and interface wiring for CATV control through the nurse call system in patient rooms. Additional responsibilities include the development of acoustical criteria for isolation of the building structure due to structure-borne vibration including traffic vibration along St. Paul Street, HVAC equipment noise control, sound isolation, as well as, interior room acoustics for various spaces throughout the facility. The project was completed in spring 2011.

 

 

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Franklin Square Hospital – New Patient Tower

[col3]The scope of this project includes complete design services for telecommunications (voice/data) cabling, nurse call/code blue, audio paging, audiovisual presentation, access control, video surveillance, equipment tracking, and wireless infrastructure systems for the new five story Franklin Square Hospital patient tower. The new 291-room tower will house an expanded six zone emergency department, large intensive care unit, and four new medical surgical units. Project responsibilities included the development of a technology systems program manual outlining new and existing technology systems based on site surveys, inventories, and programming workshops with representatives from Franklin Square Hospital. Representatives from the hospital were divided into three focus groups  clinical engineering, facilities department, and information systems/technology – in order to streamline the process and gather the right players early in the design process. Project opportunities included more robust wireless networks enabling doctors and nurses increased mobility and productivity over legacy communications systems. This project has been successfully complete since November 2010.[/col3]

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LOCATION: Baltimore, Maryland

ARCHITECT: Wilmot Sanz Gaithersburg

MEP ENGINEER: Leach Wallace Baltimore, Maryland

GROSS SQUARE FOOTAGE: 356,000 gsf

CONSTRUCTION COST: $175 MILLION

OWNER REFERENCE: Dennis Kephart Sr. Director of ISS/Facility Management (443) 777-7254

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University of North Dakota- School of Medicine & Health Sciences

The University of North Dakota is building a new home for the School of Medicine and Health Sciences. The new building will house of all the schools educational, service, and research programs. Previously these programs had to be housed on separate campuses due to a lack of space. The building is a critical component of the North Dakota Health Care Workforce Initiative. Convergent Technologies Design Group, Inc. will provide audiovisual, telecommunications, acoustics, and security design services. The project is expected to be completed in July 2016.

Architect: JLG Architects
Location: Grand Forks, North Dakota
Project Budget: $124,000,000
Project Size: 378,000 GSF