HED’s master facilities plan at Sutter’s Alta Bates Summit Medical Center in Oakland, CA is set to modernize the campus while upgrading and improving facilities to operate past 2030. The goal of the project is to integrate new program requirements and squeeze new life and revenue-generating spaces from the existing buildings.
The new Dietary Department and MRI project renovated 37,500 SF of the existing South Tower to accommodate these functions. The spaces formerly used as the main building entrance and administration offices have been renovated to provide a new Dietary Department with a kitchen, dining area, and servery and adjacent MRI Suite.
This project presents numerous constraints including CDPH (California Department of Public Health) regulations, narrow points of access, and the difference of functionality between the Dietary Department and MRI suite. Despite these obstacles, HED was able to meet and exceed the client’s goals by accommodating seat count requirements for the dining area, improving circulation patterns, appropriately locating MRI equipment, creating distinctive access points for each component and designing adequate square footage for usable space.
This project was completed as an Integrated Delivery with an IFOA (Integrated Form of Agreement) contract.
