In an article that first appeared in US magazine, Medical Construction & Design, Mark Howell, senior vice-president of Skanska USA Building, based in Seattle, describes the design and construction of a new nine-storey, 350,000 ft2 extension to the Good Samaritan Hospital in Puyallup, Washington state.
He explains how the use of an Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) approach by the key players, and extensive use of building information modelling (BIM), combined to deliver a healthcare facility that he believes should meet the needs of patients, families, and the clinical care team, ‘well into the future’.
With a complex construction project, as in major surgery, a successful outcome depends on a multidisciplinary team employing advanced technology. Members of Washington’s MultiCare Health System value collaboration, and the use of advanced healthcare and information technology, to improve patient outcomes. Consistent with these values, MultiCare’s leaders embraced both the practice of informal Integrated Project Delivery – a collaborative approach to project management, and the use of building information modelling (BIM), for a 350,000 ft2 expansion of the MultiCare Good Samaritan Hospital in Puyallup, Washington, in the US. As a result, the project team was able to meet significant design, engineering, and construction challenges – including the requirements associated with a ‘2,000-year seismic design’, a steeply sloped site, and LEED Silver certification – to deliver the project within budget in less than 27 months. The building subsequently, in fact, achieved a LEED Gold Award.
Integrating technology and sustainability
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