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Clinical Addition

Completion: October 1998 - Occupancy: April 1999
Published December 1999

The Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Campus located in Ann Arbor, Mich., has been serving patients since 1949 through an existing 400-bed main hospital and a 160-bed nursing care facility. Constructed in the early 1950s, when the center was treating less than 30 patients, the facility provides primary and specialty healthcare to more than 21,000 veterans in lower Michigan and northwestern Ohio. More than 240,000 patient visits were logged in 1998.

 

The 25-acre site located near the Huron River is densely packed with buildings, parking, and constricted roadways. In 1991, a $171-million master plan commenced, outlining the expansion and renovation of the existing facility, as well as the addition of a new central energy plant, a medical research building, two parking structures, and a clinical addition.

Serving as the campus' showpiece, the new 340,000-sf clinical addition provides inpatient and outpatient services including ambulatory care, pharmacy, radiology, surgery, ICUs, nuclear medicine, cardiac, and respiratory care. Situated as the main campus entrance, the clinic will facilitate 133,000 outpatient visits per year, while increasing total employment to 1,800.

A new, 10,000-sf cardiac services suite, one of only a handful in the country, houses both invasive and non-invasive therapies. The invasive area includes a cardiac cath lab, an EP lab, patient prep and holding areas, and a control and observation area. The non-invasive area houses stress test analysis, ECG exam, pace maker/holter monitor exam and ECHO exam areas, physician office space, and a cardiac research lab. The suite is located adjacent to nuclear medicine, providing access to a shared cardiac imaging machine used to perform thallium stress testing.

The eight-story building contains fully accessible interstitial space between each floor, simplifying future systems modifications while minimizing patient interference. The building is clad in red brick with limestone trim, complementing existing campus structures. This palette blends with crisply detailed curtainwalls of green glass and white porcelain metal panels forming a contemporary complement, distinctive in its own right.

Project Information
Building Owner: Department of Veterans Affairs
Building Location: Ann Arbor, MI UNITED STATES
Project Type: New Construction
Principal Building Function: Medical Care
Project Delivery Method: Design/Bid/Build
Project Timeline
Oct 1998Target Completion
Construction Cost: $72,000,000
Cost Per Sq. Ft: $212
About These Cost Figures
Building Information
Project Includes: Healthcare: Ambulatory Outpatient Clinic
Healthcare: Inpatient Acute Care
Healthcare: Intensive Care Unit
Healthcare: Surgery
Total GSF: 340,000
Special Equip: Filmless radiology, cyclotron, MRI, cardiac services suite, and PET scan
Power Req: Two 13,200-volt primary circuits originating from the Campus Energy Center. The voltage is transformed down to 480/277 volts via five substations. Two substations serve mechanical loads, two substations serve lighting/receptacle loads, and one serves medical equipment loads. The building is divided into three riser systems with each system consisting of lighting life safety, lighting critical, lighting normal, receptacle critical, and receptacle normal. The building lighting is primilarly 277 volt fluorescent and the receptacle power is stepped down to 208/120 volts with individual general purpose dry type transformers (K Rated) one per floor per riser. The emergency power is supplied by five 600 KW, 480/277 volt diesel generators with provisions for a future generator. The generators are to serve both the clinic addition and the future hospital renovation.
HVAC Req: 1.25cfm/sf
Structure/Foundation: Braced-frame steel on a composite concrete-filled metal deck
Project Team
Profile Created 12/01/1999
Last Updated 04/04/2006
About the Reported Cost Figures
The cost figures reported are supplied by the firms that submitted these projects for publication, which in most cases are the designers or builders. Whereas these sources are intimately familiar with their projects, they may not be fully aware of the owners' finally-realized and recorded costs. In some cases, costs are truly and completely accounted for, and in others they represent a near approximation of the final costs. Costs have not been adjusted for year of construction, nor has any attempt been made to make regional cost adjustments.

Further, costs are not comparable on any kind of detailed standard costing model. Hence, it is possible for the cost of one building to include a steam boiler, while the cost of a comparable building might not include the boiler, if steam is being supplied from an already existing campus grid. Or, in another case, a building might include excess boiler capacity to supply steam to another building. Some submittals include fees or unusual site improvements as part of the construction costs, which others do not.
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Exterior

The building is clad in red brick with limestone trim, complementing existing campus structures.

Photos courtesy of Harley Ellington Design.




Interior

The building is clad in red brick with limestone trim, complementing existing campus structures. This palette blends with crisply detailed curtainwalls of green glass and white porcelain metal panels forming a contemporary complement, distinctive in its own right.

Photos courtesy of Harley Ellington Design.

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