Harbor UCLA Medical Center Surgery/Emergency Addition Project
Torrance, CA
PROJECT DESCRIPTION:
Harbor UCLA Medical Center is a 570-bed acute-care facility, owned and operated by the County of Los Angeles. The facility is a major teaching hospital and acute-care facility which provides 24-hour emergency services and contains 10 operating rooms, 8 intensive care units and numerous outlying out-patient clinics, laboratories and research centers.
The 190,000 sq. ft. surgery/emergency room addition project included a three-story addition to the existing facility, renovation of the first floor lobby area and the existing emergency and surgery areas of the facility. The addition will create 16 new state-of-the-art surgical suites. The addition was planned to utilize the latest in electronic radiology, patient monitoring, patient medical record keeping and remote collaboration techniques.
ACSI RESPONSIBILITIES:
ACSI was engaged by the County’s Project Manager to provide peer review of all the planned electronics systems and develop a commissioning services and administrative plan for the project mechanical, electrical, electronic, transportation, acoustical and building envelope systems. All of these disciplines reported directly to ACSI.
After review of the then-current project design documents, ACSI was further engaged to update the entire computer and data network spaces and systems designs to reflect a forward thinking approach to this critical element of modern health care facility design. ACSI also worked with the County project management team to oversee and provide technical consulting regarding design-builders final construction documents for all of the project low-voltage systems. A critical element of ACSI’s work is planning and leading the tie-in to existing hospital computing and data networks while they remain fully functional. A separate ACSI led team provided all the facility commissioning services (mechanical, electrical, low-voltage, pneumatic tube, and building envelope systems) through project completion.
The design-build project approach created its unique challenges to the integrated building commissioning, but these were successfully overcome by the ACSI Cx team.
Unique project features include a large solar PV array place on the rooftop of the adjacent facility parking garage. Project construction was completed in late 2013. Service to the first patients occurred during Q1 of 2014.
Harbor UCLA Medical Center is a 570-bed acute-care facility, owned and operated by the County of Los Angeles. The facility is a major teaching hospital and acute-care facility which provides 24-hour emergency services and contains 10 operating rooms, 8 intensive care units and numerous outlying out-patient clinics, laboratories and research centers.
The 190,000 sq. ft. surgery/emergency room addition project included a three-story addition to the existing facility, renovation of the first floor lobby area and the existing emergency and surgery areas of the facility. The addition will create 16 new state-of-the-art surgical suites. The addition was planned to utilize the latest in electronic radiology, patient monitoring, patient medical record keeping and remote collaboration techniques.
ACSI RESPONSIBILITIES:
ACSI was engaged by the County’s Project Manager to provide peer review of all the planned electronics systems and develop a commissioning services and administrative plan for the project mechanical, electrical, electronic, transportation, acoustical and building envelope systems. All of these disciplines reported directly to ACSI.
After review of the then-current project design documents, ACSI was further engaged to update the entire computer and data network spaces and systems designs to reflect a forward thinking approach to this critical element of modern health care facility design. ACSI also worked with the County project management team to oversee and provide technical consulting regarding design-builders final construction documents for all of the project low-voltage systems. A critical element of ACSI’s work is planning and leading the tie-in to existing hospital computing and data networks while they remain fully functional. A separate ACSI led team provided all the facility commissioning services (mechanical, electrical, low-voltage, pneumatic tube, and building envelope systems) through project completion.
The design-build project approach created its unique challenges to the integrated building commissioning, but these were successfully overcome by the ACSI Cx team.
Unique project features include a large solar PV array place on the rooftop of the adjacent facility parking garage. Project construction was completed in late 2013. Service to the first patients occurred during Q1 of 2014.