Relocating from their previous location in Lincoln Park, the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital is a 1.25 million sf, 23-story structure with 288 family-friendly private rooms and two skybridges connecting the facility to Prentice Women’s Hospital. Since it's completion in 2011, Power has completed several facility upgrades and renovations, as well as build-outs at other Lurie Children's Facilities.
Early Engagement
Our team was engaged three years prior to construction, helping to provide design-phase services and fine-tune the client’s needs. Over the course of this process, our team provided four milestone estimates and worked with the team to address the complicated cantilever and truss design. Providing feedback on how to efficiently design this component, we were able to maximize cost savings, provide efficiencies to the design and address the tolerance and constructablity for the cantilever. Later, as we developed the schedule, we utilized a “fast-track” design approach with six separate design release packages while expedited the early phases of the schedule.
Complex foundation system
The medical center has a complex hybrid foundation system which combines sheeting with micro piles and underpining of existing adjacent structures. A key concern in planning and construction was maintaining a sewer line that ran adjacent the site which supports the entire Gold Coast neighborhood.
Planning for the future
In order to deliver a facility that will support its staff and patients for years to come, the client allowed its user groups to provide continuous feedback on what type of equipment and design would work best for them now and years down the road. Our team remained flexible to the end of the project and beyond, closely managing this process and worked with the staff/researchers to makes sure their needs were fulfilled while maintaining the client’s budget and schedule.
Other projects include:
- 38,000 sf, three-story Adolescent Medical Center with features exam rooms, office space for physicians and counselors, and a conference center on the top floor.
- 65,000 sf build-outs within five area Outpatient Care Centers
- 6,100 sf renovation of an MRI Suite on the fifth floor of an active hospital. The eight ton MRI Magnet was lifted via crane and brought into the building through the removed fifth floor punched window opening
- Multiple renovations within the hospital to update post-operative and diagnostic space.
