St. Elizabeth's Medical Center, William F. Connell Pavilion

As the structural engineer and building enclosure consultant, SGH helped the project team tackle challenges that included accommodations for the three-story structure to be built into the side of a hill, a future four-story vertical expansion, and open floor plans. Highlights of SGH’s work on the project include the following:

• Designed cast-in-place foundation walls as cantilevered retaining walls to accommodate the sloped site and help facilitate construction
• Used steel moment frames around the perimeter to provide flexibility in the floor plan layout and for future interior remodeling
• Developed an alternate foundation scheme that utilized drilled caissons for site and schedule considerations
• Designed support for a future linear accelerator at the second floor and a second major roof-top air-handling unit
• Consulted on the design of the precast and curtain wall facade
• Designed steel canopies that cantilever 20 ft from the building, covering patient drop-off areas in two locations