Unification of Campus
The Patient Care Tower creates a central focus point, unifying the disparate elements on the campus. Externally, the adjacent Gengras Building is echoed in the exterior detailings of the tower. Internally, Level Two links all clinical and support structures on campus as a "Main Street" of circulation. The Patient Care Tower is accessed from both front and back creating a feeling of openness with the Greater Hartford community. The tower acts as an anchor and provides pedestrian links between the recently completed 31,200-sf Cancer Center, a new Medical Office Building, and parking garage, allowing visitors easy access to other services.

Vertical Integration of Ambulatory Services
Ambulatory services are grouped around a three-level atrium which serves as the primary organizing element and establishes visual references to aid visitors in wayfinding. Upper floors house inpatient services such as Intermediate Care patient rooms and Intensive Care Units. The atrium is the spatial focus of the clinical services, functionally and visually linking the entry level rotunda with all three floors of access to the parking structure.

Flexible Planning
A rigorous planning module for both the structural bay and architectural skin is established for compatibility with all the highly repetitive program elements, such as ICU's and OR's. Critical dimensions and details are standardized throughout the facility to accommodate a broad patient mix. Operational efficiency and space planning economies are enhanced through improved horizontal and vertical departmental adjacencies, grouping similar services to create staffing synergism, such as the juxtapositioning of Cardiac Catheterization and Ambulatory Surgery.

The Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center campus redevelopment project has been widely recognized for its vision of healthcare delivery by the design, engineering, and healthcare industries. To date, this project has received eight design awards.

Project Information
Building Owner:		Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center
Owner Contact:		R. Christopher Hartley, Senior Vice President, Planning and Facilities Development
Building Location:		Hartford, CT UNITED STATES
Project Type:		Expansion,Renovation
Principal Building Function:		Ambulatory and Inpatient Healthcare
Project Delivery Method:		Construction Management
Project Timeline		Sep 1990 Planning Start Sep 1990 Design Start Aug 1993 Construction Start Aug 1996 Target Completion
Project Cost:		$113,000,000
Construction Cost:		$81,000,000
		About These Cost Figures
Building Information
Project Includes:		Atrium Healthcare: Ambulatory Outpatient Clinic Healthcare: Inpatient Acute Care Healthcare: Intensive Care Unit Healthcare: Surgery
Total GSF:		358,000
Total NSF:		270,000
Efficiency:		75%
Building Population:		505 beds
Power Req:		total=20 watts/nsf; lightning 2.5 watts/nsf recept=5.5 watts/nsf; equipment 12 watts/nsf
HVAC Req:		1.1 cfm/nsf Five Air Handling Units:2 at 76,000 cfm1 at 65,000 cfm 1 at 45,000 cfm 1 at 44,000 cfm Chillers: one 550 ton steam absorption chiller one 550 ton electric centrifugal chiller
Structure/Foundation:		Steel and poured in place concrete
Project Team
Architect		TRO Jung|Brannen
Builder		Gilbane Building Company
Consultant		Ernst & Young
Consultant - Accoustical/AV		Cavanaugh Tocci
Consultant - Civil		Close Jensen and Miller, P.C.
Consultant - Cost Analysis		Hanscomb Associates, Inc.
Consultant - Equipment		Gene Burton Associates
Consultant - Geotechnical		Dr. Clarence Welti, P.E.
Consultant - Interiors		TRO Jung|Brannen
Consultant - Landscape Architect		The SWA Group
Consultant - Lighting		Lam Partners Inc.
Consultant - Structural		Purcell Associates
Supplier		Honeywell
Profile Created 08/01/1997
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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