Project Profile: Sutter Santa Rosa Regional Hospital Expansion
Project includes mechanical, plumbing, electrical and information systems infrastructure upgrades in multiple existing buildings including the central plant.
Engineering firm: Stantec
2023 MEP Giants rank: 9
Project: Sutter Santa Rosa Regional Hospital Expansion
Location: Santa Rosa, CA, United States
Building type: Hospital/health care facility
Project type: Remote central plant building/systems upgrades
Engineering services: Electrical, power; energy, sustainability; HVAC, mechanical; architecture, interior design, planning
Project timeline: September 2017 to October 2022
MEP/FP engineering budget: $35 million
New boiler room. Source: Stantec Architecture Inc.
Challenges
Project includes mechanical, plumbing, electrical and information systems infrastructure upgrades in multiple existing buildings including the central plant. All upgrades and addition to these infrastructure systems had to be designed and phased to allow for the existing hospital and essential and infrastructure systems to remain in operation at all times.
Main electrical room – serving existing hospital and the new addition. Source: Stantec Architecture Inc.
Solutions
Space constraints relative to program requirements became evident during scope validation and schematic design. The use of integrated facility infrastructure equipment enclosures for electrical branch power and distribution were used which allowed for smaller electrical room footprints. Similarly, the use of pre-fabricated headwalls in all patient rooms and bays allows for compact, prefabricated piping and conduit connection assemblies which saved space and increased speed to completion.
Patient room with prefabricated headwall. Source: Stantec Architecture Inc.
Accommodated smart, sustainable parking on site. New electric vehicle charging station introduced in public and staff parking areas.
View of Sutter Santa Rosa Regional Hospital Addition. Source: Stantec Architecture Inc.
Design of MEP infrastructure and finish systems in a manner that allowed for significant off-site fabrication which provided great quality controls, smaller lay down requirements, just-in-time delivery and elimination of construction materials waste.
New Pre-Op/Post-Op Department featuring pre-fabricated headwalls in each bay. Source: Stantec Architecture Inc.
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