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“The reality of tomorrow’s healthcare is full service in a condensed footprint. That means accommodating a lot more
than just a few doctor’s offices,” says Jacobs. Creating a tech- ready medical office building concept with nearly limitless programming possibilities helped Brookhaven attract UCHealth as a long-term tenant. By getting
in early, UCHealth was able to able to join the project while the building was still in design, greatly enhancing Davis Partnership’s ability to respond to specific wants and needs. The program being erected today includes full- service ambulatory surgery suites, a free-standing imaging center featuring CT scan and magnetic resonance imaging, and an oncology center with on-site radiation therapy.
Accounting for the interests
of top-flight healthcare providers, the Brookhaven team
understands the importance
of extending benefits to both patients and the surrounding communities. One of the biggest investments at the UCHealth Cherry Creek Medical Center is likely to go largely unnoticed by the public, an expectation which is just fine with Jacobs.
logistics exponentially right from groundbreaking. Chad Holajter
is the Senior project manager leading the work for construction manager / general contractor Swinerton. “Excavation to 55-feet below grade is no easy task,” says Holajter of the excavation. “Our on-site dewatering system
pumped, cleaned
to drinking-water standards, and discharged more than 100 million gallons of water from the site into the storm sewer in a ten-month period.”
Brookhaven’s return on investment in the excavation
effort will be a 221-stall garage for patients, providers, and visitors. The completed property will boast one of the highest parking-to- square foot ratios of any office building in the District. Keeping vehicle traffic flows away from neighboring retail and residential
“We dug the parking on this site five-levels below the street,” says Jacobs. “That’s going down as many stories as we are going up!”
The below-grade effort involved excavating a full twenty feet below the water table on a congested urban site in a mixed- use residential neighborhood. This not only necessitated
a lot of intense structural engineering in the design phase but complicated construction
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