New Project Award: MARYLAND GENERAL HOSPITAL, BALTIMORE, MD - CENTRAL CARE TOWER

Leach Wallace prepared a Phase I Master Plan for this Hospital to address the hospital's immediate needs that include new operating rooms, a new laboratory, a new 18-bed surgical ICU, a new GI lab space and a new pharmacy. Designs are now underway for this 91,000 SF expansion and renovation project include which include two new custom indoor air handling units. The chiller plant upgrade includes two  new 650-ton electric centrifugal chillers and 650-ton cooling towers.  Designs also feature a new 2000 KVA normal power substation, a new 500 KW emergency generator and paralleling switchgear, three new automatic transfer switches and distribution.

Selected for New Project: CAROLL HOSPITAL CENTER, WESTMINSTER, MD - SURGERY ADDITION AND OR RENOVATION
Leach Wallace is providing the design of the mechanical, electrical and plumbing systems for a new four-story addition and renovation project that will expand the existing Surgical Department, Post Anesthesia Care Unit (PACU), and Central Sterile Supply, while adding storage and additional mechanical and electrical equipment space on the lower two floors. The expansion includes approximately 16,000 SF of new construction to be built on the northeast corner of the hospital, and about 22,000 SF of renovation on the ground and first floors.  A challenge of this project will be construction of the new operating rooms and renovation of the existing operating rooms in place, which will require a complex and thorough phasing plan. The hospital must maintain at least six ORs at all times.

New Project Award: CARROLL HOSPITAL CENTER, WESTMINSTER, MD - PATIENT TOWER EXPANSION
Leach Wallace has been awarded the contract to provide mechanical, electrical and plumbing designs for the construction of a new six floor patient tower totaling approximately 78,000 square feet of finished space. The ground floor (18,000 SF) will consist of mechanical/electrical space, shell space, and a connecting service corridor to the emergency department. The first floor (24,000 SF) will be primarily outpatient services with a connecting link to the main lobby. The second and third floors (18,000 SF each) will be medical/surgical inpatient units, with provisions for telemetry. The fourth and fifth floors (18,000 SF each) will be shell space.  

 

Key infrastructure components include a new 500-ton chiller to be installed in the new chiller plant; a new boiler plant consisting of three new boilers; a new substation; a new 750 KW diesel engine generator set and new automatic transfer switches and electrical distribution equipment.


 

Selected for New Project: FRANKLIN SQUARE HOSPITAL CENTER, BALTIMORE, MD - NEW EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT AND INPATIENT TOWER
An addition to the existing hospital has been proposed at Franklin Square Hospital Center. Leach Wallace is responsible for the mechanical/electrical designs for the new construction and renovation totaling 316,274 SF. The project consists of a seven-story, 290,000 SF building addition, largely in the form of a new Emergency Department, a patient tower with a rooftop penthouse, a new 18,000 SF central chiller/boiler plant that will serve both the existing hospital, the new addition, a new 6-story 1,053-car open parking structure and 6,011 SF of renovation. A new 1,210 SF loading dock will also be included.

Hospital programs within this project include critical and intensive care, isolation rooms, telemetry unit, anesthesia gas storage, Psych ED, ED treatment room for adults and pediatrics, Fast Track ED, triage, sterile storage, resuscitation room, imaging as well as medical/surgical patient rooms, waiting areas, nurse stations, lounges, lobbies, conference areas, and administrative support spaces. Designs include a future helipad located above the top floor of the proposed addition.  The power plant will house boilers, chillers, generators for normal and emergency power and electrical switchgear.

New Project Award: ST. AGNES HOSPITAL, BALTIMORE, MD - CAMPUS REVITALIZATION
Leach Wallace has been retained to provide mechanical and electrical engineering services for this revitalization project throughout the campus of this hospital. Construction will expand its current patient room capacity to accommodate all private rooms in the hospital. The project includes a 158,000 SF patient tower addition, a 16,000 SF addition and renovation to the existing cancer center, renovations to the 4th, 5th, 6th, and 7th floors of the existing patient tower (approximately 75,000 SF), an addition and major renovations to the central utilities plant, and a new parking garage.

Due to their age, excessive costs to renovate, and location with regards to the campus master plan, two of the existing buildings will be demolished. A new building will be constructed to house the three new 2,000 kW electric generators (with space for a future 4th generator), transfer switches and paralleling switchgear. Two new 30,000 gallon underground number 2 fuel oil storage tanks will be provided in the parking area outside the chiller plant. One will serve the generators and one will serve the boilers. A 550 space open parking structure is to be constructed across from the main entrance to the new patient tower.

Selected for New Project: DOCTOR'S COMMUNITY HOSPITAL, LANHAM, MD - PATIENT TOWER ADDITION 
The new addition and renovation project (total 66,350 SF) will expand the hospital's patient room capacity while adding shell space on the lower two levels and mechanical and electrical equipment space in a new penthouse. The expansion consists of five stories (not including the Penthouse), with approximately 16,650 SF on each of the three upper floor patient units, and about 8,200 SF of shell space on the first and second floors. In addition, a new MRI Suite is anticipated to replace the existing mobile unit located within the footprint of the new Addition. The project features a new air handling system to serve the entire Addition and a new chilled water plant.