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General Building Data
 
 
Building Name:
Gouverneur Healthcare Services
Location and Site: 227 Madison Street      New York, NY 10002
Building Occupant:
NYC HHC - Gouverneur
Function Type: Healthcare
Size: 75,000 sq. ft. addition / 275,000 sq. ft. renovation
Number of Stories:
5 and 13 stories
Primary Project Team:

Owner:   New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation
   125 Worth Street
   New York, NY 10013
Construction Manager:   Hunter-Roberts Construction Group
   2 World Financial Center, 6th Floor
   New York, NY 10281
Architect:   RMJM - Hillier
   275 Seventh Ave., 24th Floor
   New York, NY 10001-6708
Structural Engineering:   Greenman-Pedersen
   50 Glenmaura Blvd. Suite 301
   Scranton, PA 18505
MEP Engineer:   AKF Engineers
   1501 Broadway
   New York, NY 10038
Civil Engineering:   Hirani Engineering
   47 Mineola Blvd.
   Mineola, NY 11501
Landscape Architecture:   EKLA
   Brooklyn Navy Yard 275-02
   Brooklyn, New York

 
 
  Dates of Construction: September 2008 - Mid 2012
Cost Information: $160 million overall project cost
Project Delivery Method: Design-Bid-Build with multiple prime contracts
 
 
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Architecture
 
 

There are two main components to the Gouverneur Health Services Building Project: a major renovation of the existing building and a 75,000 sq. ft. addition. The addition consists of a five story ambulatory center and an expansion to the existing, long-term care center. The addition, coupled with the reogranization of the existing building, will permit the Gouverneur Health Services to perform more efficiently and is designed to allow the 35-year-old building to function in a manner that is expected in a modern health care facility.

The largest portion of the addition is the five-story ambulatory center, located on the western portion of the existin building. The first floor is laid out to provide the facility with a central lobby and a larged covered access for ambulances. The remaining spaces of the five-story facility include treatment areas, offices, and a pharmacy. The smaller part of the addition - floors six through thirteen - are small in plan, and expand the existing by only seven beds; however, this serves to make the function of the long term care center more efficient and succeeds in tying together all aspects of the building
 
 
  Major Model Codes:

   The City of New York Building and Administrative Code
   New York Electrical Code
   All Applicable NFPA Codes
   New York State Energy Code
   AIA Guidelines for Design and Construction of Hospital and Health Care Facilities
 
 
 
Zoning:

Most of the site is in the R7-2 Medium Density Residential District. A small portion of the eastern edge of the city block that contains the Gouverneur Health Services Building is zoned as a commercial overlay, although it was never developed and remains part of the healthcare facility
 
 
  Historical Requirements: none
 
 
 

Envelope:

The addition to the Gouverneur Health Services Building is almost entirely a glass curtain wall facade, while the existing building is a brick facade with punch windows. The curtain wall covers the North, West and South elevations of the ambulatory center, and the North and South elevations of the small 7-story tower addition. The curtain wall system consists of 1" Insulating Glass Unit (IUG), 1/4" Monolithic Glass w/ Ceramic Frit, and an Aluminum Composite Metal Panel.

In order to tie together both portions of the building - old and new - Glass-Fiber Reinforced Concrete Panels (GFRC) are used as the exterior walls of the western elevation of the new, tower addition and the existing building.

The roof of the Gouverneur Healthcare Services is a concrete roof on metal deck. Layered on top is a rubberized-asphalt waterproofing membrane, insulation drainage panels. FInally, there is a layer of stone ballast on unoccupied roof, or a paver system on occupied roof.
 

 
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Structural System
 
 


The Gouverneur Healthcare Facility bears on a pile foundation system, with 60-ton capacity, 12” piles. Pile caps vary from 35” to 54” thick with the number of piles ranging from 2 to 16 piles per cap. The piles support grade beams that span between 15’ and 40’. Their sizes range from 4’-0” to 8’-3” deep with reinforcing from #8 to #12 bars. A structural, one-way slab-on-grade spans between grade beams to make up the cellar floor.

The floor system for Gouverneur Healthcare Services is a composite system that utilizes castellated beams for all gravity beams in the lower portion of the building and traditional W-shapes in the upper portion of the building. A 4 ¼” slab rests on a 2” LOK floor composite deck, and typical bays are 30’-0” by 44’-0”. Almost all columns are W14’s with sizes ranging from W14x43 to W14x256. Typical base plates are 22”x22”.

The lateral system for the Gouverneur Healthcare Facility is a combination of moment frames and braced frames. The lower portion utilizes moment frames almost entirely, while the upper portion of the building uses braced frames in the North-South direction and moment frames in the East-West direction.
 

 
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Engineering Systems
 
 


Construction
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Unable to obtain detailed information at this current time.

 
 
Mechanical:
There are multiple types of mechanical units servicing the Gouverneur facility. There are two constant volume, induction units for the general supply of the new addition and existing building. The units are 17,000 cfm and 20,000 cfm respectively and supply the building with 100% outdoor air. In addition to these units, there are multiple variable-air volume AHU’s located throughout the building’s mechanical spaces. These units, ranging from 6,000 cfm to 30,000 cfm, are typically dedicated for individual spaces, such as the atrium, lobby, and dialysis center.
 
 
 
Electrical:
The electrical system at the Gouverneur Healthcare facility is a 208V service, provided by Con-Edison into two main service boards. These 4000A boards supply the building with its typical 208/120V, three-phase, four wire electrical system. There are also multiple step-up transformers, rated from 112.5 KVA to1500KVA, providing 480/277V service where it is required. Service is typically distributed vertically throughout the building in bus ducts to the electrical closets on each floor. Each floor contains two electrical closets with five panels in each closet, three 208/120V panels and two 480/277V panels.

Due to the nature of a healthcare facility, emergency power is a necessity. It is supplied through a 1250kW 480/277V emergency, diesel generator that can be found in the mechanical room on the roof of the existing building. The generator supplies the main emergency systems, such as the fire pump and fire alarm system, but it also supplies emergency electricity to general lights and equipment to ensure the safety of the patients in case of a power failure.
 
 
 
Lighting:
Unable to obtain detailed information at this current time.
 
 
 
Telecom:
The telecom system in the Gouverneur Healthcare building includes computers connected to a central network, telephones, and security systems. All central controls for the systems are housed in the cellar.

Fiber-optics connects all the computers to the server, with computers located in every exam room, office, and other various locations as needed. Similarly, telephone lines distribute to the same spaces, and users connect both to services using hookups in a common wall panel.

The security camera system consists of an expansive closed-circuit television (CCTV) system, and a card access system. Cameras are located in every exam room, every waiting room, assembly space, elevator.
 
 
 
 
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Note: While great efforts have been taken to provide accurate and complete information on the pages of CPEP, please be aware that the information contained herewith is considered a work‐in‐progress for this thesis project. Modifications and changes related to the original building designs and construction methodologies for this senior thesis project are solely the interpretation of Scott Rabold. Changes and discrepancies in no way imply that the original design contained errors or was flawed. Differing assumptions, code references, requirements, and methodologies have been incorporated into this thesis project; therefore, investigation results may vary from the original design
 
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