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Projects
Strong Foundations
Glass and glazing products play a defining role in the recently
constructed 1 million-square-foot (total campus) Naval Hospital at the
Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, which was completed six months ahead
of schedule and more than $100 million under budget. The Los Angeles operations
of HKS Architects Inc. served as the architect of record while HDR Architecture
Inc. in San Diego served as the architectural designer for the new hospital.
The joint venture design-build team included contract glazier Tower Glass
of San Diego along with Clark Construction Group LLC and McCarthy Building
Companies Inc.
According to Jeff Swaim, project manager with Tower Glass, the hospital
project features laminated glass fabricated with PPG Solarban 70.
Northwestern Industries was the glass fabricator. Vision Systems was the
curtainwall supplier.
Swaim says one of the important considerations for this project was the
blast requirements, requiring the glass and glazing to meet certain PSI.
He explains the glass has to be able to transfer the load [from a blast]
to the mullions and the mullions then to the building structure.
“The glass has to be able to give as much as possible without failing
… the attachments are probably ten times that of a normal curtainwall
system,” says Swaim.
The hospital is expected to earn LEED Gold Certification. Included among
its sustainable design features is an atrium open to the sky. According
to builders, the hospital’s energy performance is 30 percent better than
baseline standards set by the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating
and Air-Conditioning Engineers.
The design team fully integrated with the construction team from the beginning
through construction, working closely with members on each design submittal
and package to ensure constructability, expedite work, and control quality
and costs. No major construction was started until 65 percent of the design
was finalized.
“The replacement hospital is a facility ‘catch-up’ for the progress of
modern medicine, since the last facility was built in the early 1970s,”
said Capt. Mark A. Kobelja, commanding officer of the Naval Hospital Marine
Corps Base Camp Pendleton. “The new facility utilizes evidence-based design
to enhance healing for patients, as well as efficient and effective design
to conserve water and energy, protect from earthquakes and optimize the
work environment for staff. Designed as a like-for-like replacement of
existing capabilities, the new facility will greatly enhance those capabilities
with the newest facility and equipment technologies. Add in the ocean
view, large windows, greenery and pleasing finishes and textures throughout,
and it’s little wonder our staff and patients are ready to move in.”
The new Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton Naval Hospital replaces an older
facility built in 1974 near Lake O’Neil that no longer complied with current
seismic, anti-terrorism, and general force protection standards for hospitals.
It will now be used for administrative offices and storage. The project
also received two Alliant Build America awards from the Associated General
Contractors of America, including Best New Building Project and the Marvin
M. Black Excellence in Partnering award.
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