The Hospital Bed Expansion project will add 72 critical care patient rooms to the University Hospital. The project is a six story, 46,000 SF addition to the north facade of the Hospital’s Central Bed Tower. The design consists of 12 private room nursing units located on floors 3 through 8, with the patient rooms designed to be critical care capable, with a full bathroom. This design allows the rooms to be used for critical care, step-down care, or acute care. This project provides the much needed bed capacity to the Hospital while providing the maximum flexibility. Hurt & Proffitt’s survey crews were responsible for confirming the location of the second story lobby beams so the steel can be fabricated. Our crews have worked inside the existing hospital to ensure the floor elevations will tie into the new addition, while the existing hospital continues to operate. They also monitored the location of the steel as it rose to nine stories. Both projects are slated to be complete in 2011. Hurt & Proffitt’s portion will be complete by mid 2011.

The Hospital Bed Expansion design was inspired, in large part, by the design of the Emily Couric Clinical Care Center, for which Hurt & Proffitt is also providing services. This project will be a 150,000 SF building that will provide state-of-the-art therapies and comprehensive cancer care to patients and their families – all under one roof. The building will be five stories tall and has a cost of $50 million. Hurt & Proffitt was retained to lay out the 77 drilled piers on which the foundation rests on as well as the layout of column lines and control lines for all five floors.

The first phase consists of the advanced site package and includes construction of a new 153-space parking lot, service drive, utility relocation, management of stormwater quantity and quality, relocation of an existing nursing school building, and other related work.  The proposed new lot will be designed to sync with the new building addition and will allow for more parking spaces to be added with the building construction project (phase 2). 

Phase two consists of site work associated with the building addition, an additional 37-space parking lot, utility connections, relocation of a back-up generator and electrical transformer, and management of stormwater quality and quantity. 

A total of 5.0 acres of land will be disturbed in both phases.  Elevation differentials, utility conflicts and floodway boundary restrictions were some of the challenges faced during the design and construction process.

Project included the demolition of existing site facilities. Hurt & Proffitt was responsible for coordinating all civil utility and site designs (including landscape plans) as well as surveying, environmental assessments, and geotechnical investigations.

Hurt & Proffitt provided building control lines, pile layout, and a pile as-built report. The building and duct bank have already been completed. Layout for all the associated site work will be complete in the near future.

Hurt & Proffitt provided geotechnical investigations; environmental site assessments; topographical, boundary, utility location, and construction stakeout surveying; preliminary and final site design and construction documents; civil engineering of utilities; stormwater management; construction testing and inspection.

Hurt & Proffitt provided general civil engineering and construction stakeout surveying services for this project. Scope of services included overall campus site planning, parking layout, mass grading, erosion and sediment control, stormwater management and stormwater runoff quality measures. Approximately 2,500 LF of additional roadway was designed to access the hospital campus from Port Republic Road and Boyers Road. Hurt & Proffitt’s surveyors staked out over 400 caissons that support the buildings foundation. Our surveyors were also responsible for staking control for building layout, storm and sanitary sewer, roadways and parking lots.