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THOMAS MCCONNELL

Completion date: May 2013
Total building area: 75,600 sq. ft. conditioned space; 6,500 sq. ft. mechanical
penthouse
Total construction cost: $28.8 million
Cost/sq. ft.: $350
Owner: Seton Healthcare Family
Architecture: Polkinghorn Group Architects
Inc.
Landscape architect: TBG Partners
Interior design: Obrentz Design Group
Contracting: The Beck Group
Civil engineer: Bury
Structural: Datum Engineers Inc.
MEP engineer: CCRD Partners
Commissioning agent: ACR Engineering
Sustainability/LEED consultant: Center for
Maximum Potential Building Systems
Furniture consultant: Rockford Business
Interiors
Medical equipment: HSG
Acoustical consultant: JEAcoustics
Solar consultant: Jacoby Solar Consulting
Waterproofing consultant: Austech Roofing
Consultants
Code consultant: Pruitt Consulting Inc.
Art/pictures: Sandra McGregor, art consultant
AV equipment/electronics/software: Ford
Audio Visual provided projectors by Sharp and
screens by Da-Lite
Carpet/flooring: Intertech Flooring, Forbo,
Tandum
Ceiling/wall systems: Baker Drywall, Armstrong, Tectum
Doors/locks/hardware: Hull Supply Co., VT
Industries, Universal Automatic Doors
Fabric/textiles: Mecho Shade
Furniture - seating/casegoods: Rockford
Business Interiors
Handrails/wall guards: Construction
Specialties
Lighting: Spectrum Lighting, Winona LED,
Medmaster, Philips, Se'Lux, Kenall, Eureka,
Lithonia, N-light
Signage/wayfinding: Facility Solutions Group
Surfaces - solid/other: JC Millwork
Wallcoverings: Cherry Painting, Sherwin
Williams

as the lighting and HVAC controls, has taken
longer than expected and that once the
facility gathers a year's worth of utility data,
CCRD plans to work with the staff on further
adjusting the control scenarios to make sure
the building is functioning at maximum efficiency and in line with the energy modeling.
"There will be some tweaks," he says. "We
haven't gone through a full spring yet, which
in central Texas is a high-humidity time of
year."
Bell says with the bed tower up and running, the owner is going back to the base
building floors one by one and refreshing
them with new paint, refinished floors, and
new LED fixtures in the main corridor.
Looking beyond the walls of Dell Chil-

dren's, Vittori says she hopes the bed
tower project provides further proof that
LEED-certified hospitals are a viable option,
pointing out that the bed tower project
came in on schedule and budget.
"Hopefully we're approaching a tipping
point with our understanding that you can
do all of this and not move outside of your
budgetary parameters," she says. "How is
it possible for this not to become the basis
of design and operation for our healthcare
facilities in the future?" HCD

Top: The design team took advantage of
new products brought to market since
the opening of Dell Children's to upgrade
many of the wood materials in the bed
tower with PVC-free solid surfaces and
wood-like railings that have better indoor
air quality, maintenance, and infection
control properties. Above: The 72 beds
in the patient tower include 24 universal
care and 48 general acute care units.
Prefabricated patient restrooms and
headwalls cut down on on-site waste and
helped control the transmission of air
particles during construction.

Anne DiNardo is senior editor of Healthcare
Design. She can be reached at adinardo@
vendomegrp.com.

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