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DARRIS LEE HARRIS

documentation and processing ended up as a very
small portion of the budgeted cost, according to
Scott Seaman, executive vice president of project
management firm Lawler Wood (Knoxville, Tenn.).
Topping the hospital's sustainable design list
is an impressive 60 percent reduction in energy
consumption, with the lion's share of those savings
coming from a geothermal system. The system
delivers a five-and-a-half-year payback for a total
of $15 million in savings over the course of 30
years. The system "takes all the heat building up
in the hospital and then recycles it to use it where
it's needed," explains Jim Crabb, principal and
CEO/president of engineering firm Perry Crabb
(Knoxville, Tenn.).
Other green building highlights include radiant
heating and cooling, metering systems, automated
shading, LED lighting, green roofs, and elimination
of almost all toxic finishes on the Living Building
Challenge's Red List. In addition, 98 percent of
construction waste was diverted from landfill and
the total recycled content of products used in the
project exceeded between two and three times
LEED's minimum 10 percent requirement. "This
required working closely with the waste/recycling
firms to develop a plan to determine what can
be recycled, how to sort/handle the recycled material, and who would receive it," Bultman says.

sure to involve the comStaff teaming areas,
located within the core
munity in planning. This
of the patient floor,
included 11 community
emphasize
collaboration
events, a series of public
and
clear
visibility to
forums, workshops,
patients and families.
and online surveys with
Indirect corridor lighting
participation from more
eliminates glare for
than 1,000 people, all in
patients being transported
an effort to explore the
while having an overall
ideal patient experience.
softening effect.
One design initiative
that emerged was the development of contextual ideas for the site and building that respond
to the region-for example, the selection of
native plant species and the use of materials
such as locally quarried stone. Community
education space was also added as well as
amenities such as walking trails to connect
surrounding neighborhoods to the site and
promote wellness.
But perhaps the key to executing such
a highly sustainable design with extensive
community-focused medical services was the
building team's commitment to fully guide the
entire process by using Lean strategies, with
a "keep your blinders on" focus that pushed
other design solutions aside. "Lean really

A community affair
Because NGMC Braselton was Georgia's first new
hospital in two decades, the organization made

Barbara Horwitz-Bennett is a contributing editor
for Healthcare Design. She can be reached at
bbennett@bezeqint.net.

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drove all the decisions," Seamen says. HCD

Project: Northeast Georgia Medical
Center Braselton
Owner: Northeast Georgia Health System
Completion date: December 2014
Total building area (sq. ft.): 235,000
(hospital), 125,000 (MOB)
Total construction cost: $90 million
(hospital), $23 million (MOB)
Architecture: HGA Architects and
Engineers
Interior design: HGA Architects and
Engineers
Contracting: Ex;it (wayfinding and donor
recognition), Rippe (food service)
Engineering: Perry Crabb (MEP), KimleyHorn Associates (civil), HGA Architects
and Engineers (structural, lighting), HGOR
(landscape)
Construction: Turner Construction
Art/pictures: Distinctive Art
Source
Carpet/flooring: Interface, J & J Invision,
Marmoleum MCT, Altro Floors
Ceiling/wall systems: Armstrong
Doors/locks/hardware: ABH, ACSI,
Corbin Russwin, GE Interlogix, Hiawatha,
Mckinney, Norton, Pemko, Rockwood,
Securitron, Sugatsune
Lighting: Philips, Focal Point, Lightolier,
Bega, Advent, Cooper, Lumencove,
Prescolite
Signage/wayfinding: Ex;it
Surfaces-solid/other: Cambria Quartz,
Corian, Natural Granite
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