Materials Used:
The Women's Center is a steel structure with steel columns, girders, and beams which utilizes metal stud wall framing. The roofing is metal deck with concrete topping. The structure's lateral support comes from Special Moment Resisting Frames (SMRFs).

Project Highlights:
This addition/remodel provides comprehensive women's health care services including a waiting room, observation room, and post-partum facilities. The unique challenge of this project was to integrate the new structure with the existing building. In addition, this project incorporates the latest SMRF research compiled within the FEMA 350 guidelines and demonstrates our firm's expertise in the particulars of OSHPD design requirements.

Materials Used:
Standard wood framed construction was used for the main structure and metal studs at the parapets.

Project Highlights:
This outpatient facility is an extension of St. Jude Medical Center in Southern California. It is one of many design-build medical projects our firm has completed in conjunction with PDC Facilities Incorporated and Pults & Associates Architects. With over 26,000 square feet of space, this facility houses a full radiology department along with examination and procedural rooms for several different medical specialties.

Materials Used:
The administration/patient consulting wing is a wood structure with steel carrier beams, plywood over metal stud shear walls, and pre-manufactured wood joist roof members. A new entry canopy that links the existing hospital to the Imaging Center is constructed using CMU cantilevered pilasters with a steel roof structure and insulated concrete over metal deck.

Project Highlights:
Phase I of this project included an existing structure remodel with heavy equipment change-outs, such as the removal of an MRI Unit and incorporation of a CT Scanner. Phase II consisted of the new wing addition and Phase III included the uniquely designed approach canopies. The entry canopy design presented an engineering challenge as the lower canopy hangs entirely from the upper canopy.

Materials Used:
This project was constructed using wood I-joist floors and roof members, plywood shear walls, and rigid moment frames at the entry.

Project Highlights:
This two story administration and lab facility is a single project in a long line of services our firm has provided to Valley Children's Hospital dating back to 1975. This project had particular construction challenges in that the remainder of the large hospital was in use during construction and the new facility was located on one of the busiest thoroughfares. Minimizing disruption to the hospital's daily activities was a high priority and timely responses were required at all levels of design and construction surveillance.