Located on the site of the historic Massachusetts College of Art (MCA), the new 350,000-sf Carl J. Shapiro Clinical Center contains eight floors of ambulatory care and clinical services. Clinical services include primary and specialty care services; an outpatient surgery with eight operating rooms; a radiology and nuclear medicine department equipped for ultrasound, mammography, computerized tomographic (CT) scanning, and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI); and a clinical laboratory. The center also houses the Beth Israel Learning Center, the Harvard Medical School-Beth Israel Hospital Clinical Education Center, the Be-Well! Fitness Center, a board or conference room, a medical records office, a pharmacy, and two cafes. A five-level, 340,500-gsf, below-grade parking garage accommodates 750 cars.

Each of the building's four upper floors is organized into three zones. The first zone includes circulation and public waiting areas. The second contains four exam-room clusters, and the third, or middle, zone is devoted to support spaces.

The building exterior employs a combination of brick (buff, brown, and glazed) and glass (clear, translucent, ribbed, and glass-block panels). The building structure features a sub-grade slurry wall, poured-in-place concrete, and a top-down construction structural steel frame with composite deck and seismic reinforcing that will accommodate nine additional floors.

The new structure integrates preserved portions of the existing MCA building through the use of materials, massing, and space. For example, the three street frontages incorporate materials, colors, textures, and scaling devices that relate to the brickwork, detail, ornament, and massing of the semi-Art Deco, semi-Depression Gothic MCA building. A five-story atrium linked to the original structure further unites past and present while gracing interior spaces with natural light.

Project Information
Building Owner:		Beth Israel HealthCare
Owner Contact:		Christine Ward, Marketing Coordinator, Rothman Partners, Inc.
Building Location:		Boston, MA UNITED STATES
Project Type:		New Construction
Principal Building Function:		Ambulatory healthcare
Project Delivery Method:		General Contractor
Project Timeline		Sep 1987 Planning Start May 1990 Design Start Dec 1992 Construction Start Dec 1995 Target Completion
Project Cost:		$170,000,000
Construction Cost:		$100,800,000
Cost Per Sq. Ft:		$146
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Building Information
Project Includes:		Conference Room Education Fitness Center Healthcare: Ambulatory Outpatient Clinic Healthcare: Surgery Laboratory Office Parking Structure
Total GSF:		690,500
Total NSF:		350,000
Efficiency:		51%
Building Population:		2543
People Density:		338 gsf/person
Building Services:		Compressed air, medical air, nitrogen, nitrous oxide, oxygen, vacuum
Special Equip:		OR medical gas/equipment columns, blood analyzers (for hematology), computerized tomography (CT) x-ray system, CT with lasers, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) equipment, radiographic x-ray system, ultrasound equipment, mammography equipment, cart washers, hydrotherapy pool, equipment sterilizers
Office Size:		10' x 10' NSF
Power Req:		6 W/sf (not including the third-floor operating room suite) HVAC/plumbing: 3 W/sf Equipment: 1.5 W/sf Lighting: 1.5 W/sf
HVAC Req:		1.1 cfm/nsf
Structure/Foundation:		Braced structural steel on below-grade concrete parking structure. Interior columns supported on load-bearing elements; concrete slurry exterior foundation walls
Laboratory Parameters
Casework Mat'l:		Steamed beech veneer with cast terrazzo transaction tops. Plastic laminate with solid polymer and plastic laminate countertops
Biosafety Cabinets:		Four class II, type B3 cabinets
Project Team
Site Development		Kiewit Company
Supplier - Biosafety Cabinets		The Baker Company
Profile Created 01/01/1997
Last Updated 04/04/2006
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