Swedish Issaquah Hospital

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Swedish Issaquah Hospital

The shared circulation and generous public spaces encourage a sense of community between doctors, staff, and patients."

Contract Magazine article by Sheri Olson

Engineering an Award-Winning Hospital: Solutions for a progressive healthcare facility

DCI Engineers provided structural design services for this award-winning, 175-bed hospital. DCI’s work included a new five-story medical office building, a five-story ambulatory care center, and a central utility plant to service the facility, for a total of 575,000-sf. Many special structural solutions were incorporated into the design of this facility in order to ensure that it would perform to the highest standards of healthcare services.

Location:

Issaquah, Washington

Square Feet:

575,000

Stories:

Service:

Structural

Industries:

Healthcare, Life Science & Laboratory

Primary Material:

Concrete, Steel

Project Highlights

The 178,000-sf medical office building utilizes isolated internal high-strength concrete shear walls to provide unimpeded floor access
Unique details to place shear wall rebar and concrete after the steel frame helped fast-track construction.
The 323,000-sf ambulatory care center is comprised of two wings connected by a bridge at every floor to provide efficient travel distance throughout the hospital.
Shear walls bookend each wing of the ambulatory center and surround central elevators to provide maximum space planning flexibility.
Facility also includes a linear accelerator area, a porte-cochere for the main entry, a central courtyard, and a dramatic five-story tall atrium entry enclosed with glass.