For over 20 years, PDC has been providing the Fairbanks Memorial Hospital with design services to support their on-going expansion program. As the hospital has expanded, we have designed additional space for many different departments.
Surgery Addition: This project involves the addition of seven new operating rooms, new PACU/PREP rooms, classrooms, lounges, locker rooms, sterile processing rooms, operating room material management space, a second floor corridor across existing roofs, six elevators, and a new elevator from the new connecting corridor down to the existing Emergency Department. All new space is contiguous to the existing facility. The scope includes adding a floor over the existing outpatient clinic and moving its existing mechanical and electrical penthouse. The clinic had to continue to function during construction. In addition to electrical and communications designs, the expansion of the existing facility fire detection and alarm systems was an integral part of the surgery addition. Fire detection and alarm coverage was provided throughout the addition including smoke and heat detection with modifications to the existing building were connections were made. Control over HVAC, elevator controllers and power service were provided through intelligent interface modules.
The new second floor corridor access route will connect the existing north, central, and south towers of the hospital with the new operating room addition. Limited seismic upgrades to the existing north and central nursing towers will be completed with the corridor connection. Installation of a fourth boiler through the roof of the existing boiler room is included. The look of the new addition must integrate with the existing building’s modest exterior.
