The University of Virginia Health Care System is working on expanding University Hospital to accommodate many new patient rooms, improving the environment inside their hospital, and building the state-of-the-art Emily Couric Clinical Cancer Center. Hurt & Proffitt has been working closely with Gilbane, Inc. to provide all surveying services for both projects.
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.