Grande Ronde Hospital Expansion
La Grande, OR / 44,000 SF
Design-assist
Design-Assist expansion of new 44,000 SF Operating Room at Grande Ronde Hospital. The build-out consists of a 5-story addition to the existing hospital. The second floor is a surgery floor with 5 Operating Rooms, the bottom floor is a mechanical space, and the first, third, and fourth floors are for future build-out of clinical spaces. MacDonlad-Miller’s scope consists of HVAC, plumbing, and medical gas piping.
MEP Coordination
Hospitals typically have various medical gas lines and systems, medical vacuum lines, and additional mechanical equipment to support key areas of the hospital (and associated piping/ductwork). These additional systems, coupled with the decision by the client to reduce the available ceiling space for all trades for stacked value engineering, made detailing this job especially important. In many places throughout the building, we have mechanical piping, plumbing, medical gas lines, ductwork, and electrical and fire protection within mere inches of clearance from structures or other systems. The overhead spaces would not have been possible without diligent detailing to ensure all systems fit and function as intended. Weekly MEP coordination meetings led by the MacMiller detailing team played a massive part in the success of making all systems work in this hospital. Onsite, several data vaults (laptops and screens) provide easy access to BIM files and drawings for the field to continually check accuracy during installation.
UNIQUE CHALLENGES:
The site’s location posed a unique challenge, as it is the farthest project from the MacDonald-Miller prefabrication shop in Seattle. Delivering prefabricated duct and piping 330 miles to La Grande was a complicated venture due to multiple travel days and crossing two potentially hazardous passes. To overcome this, Kennewick’s shipping hub was established to receive fabricated pieces from both the Portland and Seattle shops. This split the delivery process, with items arriving at Kennewick one day and then being transferred to La Grande the next. The shipping departments, material coordinators, and delivery drivers from Norfolk, Portland, and Kennewick played a crucial role in making this possible.