Minor Care Building

Additional Info

Award Winner : McDonald Modular Solutions, Inc.

Architectural Excellence : A major metropolitan hospital required additional emergency room space for ambulatory emergency patients. It was important that the building projected the hospital’s image as a high-end healthcare provider so exterior finish colors were used that blended with the other structures on the property. The care center campus was already crowded, so strategic site placement was critical to maximize the minor care emergency space and minimized loss of valuable parking space.

The interior finishes were specified to match those of the existing hospital so that a seamless transition was felt as patients moved from one building to the next. The building floor plan mirrored that of a traditional emergency room in that the nurse’s station was in the center so that they can monitor the patients surrounding the perimeter.

Cost Energy Effectiveness : In addition to advance insulation packages, the building is fitted with programmable thermostats to further reduce heating costs. The building was also equipped with motion sensors on the light switches to reduce the lighting loads in unused rooms.

The building was designed to utilize the main hospital’s hot water circulatory system, therefore avoiding the cost and redundancy of hot water heaters.

Design Firm Name : Stuckey Vitale Architects, Inc

Occupied Date : 3/2/2009

Production Start Date : 12/4/2008

Project Location City : Troy

Project Location State Name : MI

Technical Innovation : In order to minimize costs to the hospital, the building modules were designed to mate up with an existing building system we use in the educational market place. When the emergency room building is returned to our lease fleet, it can remain a medical building or be retrofitted into a classroom building. In order to accomplish this, support posts that would have been in walls between classrooms and corridors were moved with the help of headers in the ceiling cavity. Farming for door and window openings for classroom applications were pre-built into the walls, filled with insulation and covered with siding and gypsum, ready for future retrofit.

Total Square Feet : 3808

Category : Relocatable: Healthcare: under 5,000 sq. ft.