Children's Hospital has begun construction activity in preparation for the new Building Care, Forest B, Phase 2 of the expansion, planned to open in Spring of 2022.
The 310,000 square-foot addition will add an eight-story building and will includes diagnostic and treatment facilities, primarily out-patient cancer and others) labs, new state-of-the-art operating rooms, 20 inpatient beds, and a lobby. There will be two floors of underground parking and sterile processing. This will bring SCH bed total to 409, up from 200 before its expansion 2012 plan.
The Hospital posted this information on their Construction Blog about specific construction activity this week:
The 310,000 square-foot addition will add an eight-story building and will includes diagnostic and treatment facilities, primarily out-patient cancer and others) labs, new state-of-the-art operating rooms, 20 inpatient beds, and a lobby. There will be two floors of underground parking and sterile processing. This will bring SCH bed total to 409, up from 200 before its expansion 2012 plan.
The helicopter landing pad has already moved temporarily to the roof of Forest A (176’), now known as Friends of Costco Building, Phase 1 of the expansion. The landing pad will be active for the next four years, until Building Care is completed Noise is expected to be louder than the former ground-based helipad. When Forest B is complete, the helistop will moves to its permanent location on top of the Friends of Costco Building (same height).
This week, lights were added to the horizontal swing arm (boom) portion of the tower crane to increase safety for helicopter landings. These are in addition to the lights at the end of the boom and on the crane operator’s cab. The additional lights will help the helicopter pilots in identifying the location of the boom when landing or departing the helipad in the dark. While the lights are visible from the ground, they are not bright enough to interfere with any neighboring properties. As a reminder, the tower crane is scheduled to remain onsite through August 2020.
The Hospital posted this information on their Construction Blog about specific construction activity this week:
- Beginning this week, there is no parking allowed on the north side of NE 45th Street near the fire lane expansion work (near 42nd Avenue NE). Street parking will be restricted in that area until approximately November 1.
- Fire lane expansion activities near NE 45th Street: install block wall, light pole bases and water drain; backfill wall and light pole bases; demolish concrete and grade for new bollards; saw cut sidewalk (see note below regarding on-street parking impacts)
- Install rebar and pour concrete for walls, footings, columns, and slabs
- Install external finish and weatherproofing material on exterior mock-up
- Strip concrete
- Set stairs
- Drilling for new stairs on Forest A (Friends of Costco Building)
- Drilling into new electrical vaults
- Install underground conduits
- Activities on River C, level 7: install metal panels, demolish barriers, install doors at skybridge connection point
- Internal activities: reconfigure existing fire equipment on Forest A, level 1
The loudest activities are the demolition and concrete saw cutting associated with the fire lane expansion. Expect heavy truck traffic, primarily from concrete trucks.
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