The Institute for Advanced Orthopedics, Sinai Hospital of Baltimore

Leach Wallace designed the infrastructure improvements and a 65,200 SF, five-story building addition to the existing 1962 Schoeneman building on the Sinai Campus. The Schoeneman building addition was constructed for the new services provided by the Institute for Advanced Orthopedics, including a floor for Operating Rooms, an Inpatient Floor, Occupational and Physical Therapy, an outpatient clinic space and staff offices with a Human Resources training facility. The design of the mechanical and electrical systems in the shell building enabled the building to be constructed in a fast-track manner with the future fit-out of each of the 12,140 SF floors. The new five-story addition was constructed above the existing three-story building, which remained occupied throughout the building construction.

To expedite construction time, two air handling units with variable frequency controllers were pre-purchased for installation in the penthouse. A 70,000cfm unit serves the second, third and fifth floors through two main shafts. A 35,000 cfm unit is dedicated to serve the fourth floor Operating Rooms and PACU. Direct digital controls operate all of the mechanical systems. New 8” chilled water supply and return piping was routed through the ground floor and up to the penthouse to connect the new units back to the central chiller plant.