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Josh Behun - St. Elizabeth Boardman Campus Inpatient Facility -

This is a student-generated Capstone Project e-Portfolio (CPEP) produced in conjunction with the AE Senior Thesis e-Studio.

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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 Josh Behun. 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.

Final Report

The St. Elizabeth Hospital in Boardman, Ohio has recently built a relatively large addition to its preexisting hospital facility. The new addition is primarily a 19,000 square foot, seven story patient tower that consists mainly of patient rooms and nursing stations for more effective treatment of the patients as they briefly reside within the hospital walls, plus a 5,000 square foot, three story area that typically contains mechanical rooms and central distribution equipment. Also, within this renovation is an additional 36,000 square foot, two story area that houses operating and recovery rooms as well as a kitchen and cafeteria area.
The goal of this thesis project is to prepare a redesign of the current steel structure as a reinforced concrete framed structure. After an extensive evaluation of the state of the current building, it has been concluded that the structural steel design method chosen for the building was most likely the most efficient option. Thus, the redesign analysis at hand is based solely on an educational basis, and is intended to provide insight into the design of concrete structures and produce a more knowledgeable thesis experience.
Along with the structural modifications for the hospital building, an analysis of the affects that the new design variation places upon the schedule, construction sequence, cost breakdown, and material usage for the building will also be evaluated to determine, aside from structural characteristics, which construction method is the more efficient building process. The investigation of these managerial aspects of the hospital building will be assessed dealing exclusively with comparisons of the two different framing structures.
In addition, the hospital will be evaluated using the standards of the LEED rating system, to determine if the building could potentially meet the parameters of a sustainable “green” building. Among other assessments, a green roof will be added the roof of the 36,000 square foot operating room / kitchen-cafeteria area, and a more in depth investigation of the roofing systems in place will be conducted to assess the summertime cooling demands placed upon the building with a green roof as opposed to the cooling demands of a typical EPDM roofing system.

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Thesis Final Report