The success of high-rise research facilities lies in the details behind solutions to five big issues: 1) code regulations, 2) constructability, 3) maximizing efficiency, 4) operations, and 5) collaborative linkages between floors. In this webcast, presenters examine the details and lessons learned from raising the roof from a 12-floor clinical care center to a 20-floor research tower at Texas Children’s Hospital. They also compare construction details of four additional medical research tower case studies across the United States to illustrate resolutions to code and constructability issues that have made vertical expansion possible and creative design solutions that optimize efficiency and collaboration.

Speakers:

Cynthia Walston, AIA, ACHA – Principal, FKP Architects
Allison Muth – Assistant Director, Project Management, Texas Children’s Hospital