First Stop…7th Floor
August 23rd, 2011
The Via Christi Cancer Institute would be created from two thirds of the seventh floor of a busy hospital, explains Ryan Craft, Project Designer for GLMV. “We had to find the best way to separate ourselves and the construction mess from the rest of the facility.”
The solution, implemented in collaboration with the project’s general contractor, was to build a temporary construction elevator and fasten it to the outside of the building. Seventh floor windows were turned into doors to allow access to the new “express elevator.”
As a result of innovation and coordination of the project team, “All the construction mess and traffic went on outside,” says Craft. “We didn’t have workers bringing debris with them as they traveled to or from the site. We also allowed Via Christi to have normal access and traffic flow between all floors of the hospital throughout completion.”
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