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Though largely scaled back
from the hospital's original
intentions, the Building Hope
project is a first step toward
a greater plan.
To support both safety and future flexibility,
patient rooms are universal and capable of being
flexed between acute care and ICU, or to other
modalities as necessary over time.
Results

Jennifer Kovacs Silvis is managing editor of
Healthcare Design. She can be reached at jsilvis@
vendomegrp.com.

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Completion date: April 2013
Owner: Seattle Children's
Architecture: ZGF Architects LLP
Total building area: 330,000 sq. ft.
Total construction cost: $136 million
Interior design: ZGF Architects LLP
Construction manager: Seneca
Group
General contractor: Sellen
Construction
Lean design: Joan Wellman &
Associates Inc.
Engineering: Coughlin Porter Lundeen
(structural, civil); Sparling (electrical,
technology, security, acoustic and
vibration); Affiliated Engineers
(mechanical)
Artwork: Amy Ruppel, Lab Partners
Medical equipment: Design Works
Inc.
Lighting: Pivotal Lighting
Signage and wayfinding: Studio SC
Landscape: Site Workshop
Furniture: Garrison Design

Sustainability efforts include the use of
high-performance glazing on the façade to
reduce solar gain, while the overall building
envelope was enhanced by adding insulation
to the roof and exterior walls.

BENJAMIN BENSCHNEIDER

After its April 2013 opening, the organization
talked to users at the 90-day mark to see how the
space was working, Johnson says. And outside
of requests to add a few hooks and move some
clocks, the feedback was largely positive. "They
said nurses had been spending 40 percent of
their time at the bedside before and now are
spending 60 percent," he says. Improvements
have also been noted in family experience surveys, with satisfaction trending upward alongside
staff satisfaction. While goals weren't met in every
instance, improvements were seen against the
baselines.
Building Hope, though largely scaled back from
what was originally thought to be the next move
for Seattle Children's, is also a first step toward a
greater plan. Over the next two decades, it and
other additions will replace the current hospital.
And, currently, two floors of shelled space in the
Building Hope expansion are being built out for an
additional acute care floor and critical care floor.
ZGF is currently doing a master plan of Seattle
Children's east campus, which was previously
occupied by the primary service lines that have
moved into Building Hope, to be completed in
2014. Overall, the Building Hope experience provided a new perspective for the firm on creating
an appropriate facility without overbuilding-essentially, providing a client more value by designing less. "It's been a sea change in discovering
how much more effective we can be. It puts a
large responsibility on Seattle Children's to seek
change, to organize, and find value that may
be beyond what they anticipate," Stellmacher
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