Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center, Critical Care Hospital
Richmond, Virginia
ccrd prides itself on healthcare engineering that is more than innovative, it’s sustainable. The new VCU Medical Center is an engineering project that lives up to these high standards. The ccrd team developed mechanical, electrical, plumbing and fire protection design for the new 367,792 square foot facility. The hospital has 15 levels that house 232 adult patient beds, increasing the VCU Medical Center’s ratio of private to semi-private beds from 37 percent to 70 percent.
The Critical Care Hospital features new operating rooms, expanded emergency care, conference space, access to visitor parking and improved patient rooms. The patient rooms have an average of 250 square feet including a comfortable sitting area for the patient’s family.
The facility expands the VCU Medical Center’s capacity with new intensive care units for surgical trauma, neonatal, cardiac, neuroscience, medical respiratory and burn center patients.
Chilled water, steam, domestic water, and medical gases were extended to the expansion via campus wide utility distribution systems. The new building serves as an integral connector for all campus utilities. The emergency power system comes from a 7 mega-watt medium voltage emergency generator plant.
The emergency power is then stepped down to a 480Y/277V distribution system inside the building via unit substations. Redundancy is built into the distribution to avoid a severed feeder taking down the building’s emergency power source.
Architect: HKS, Inc.
Owner: VCUMC
Project Size: 367,000 sf
Completion: 2008
Construction Cost: $184M
Scope of Services
Mechanical
Electrical
Plumbing
Fire Protection