Rendering
Courtesy of The Haskall Company |
St.
John Broken Arrow Hospital and Medical Office Building/Tulsa,
Oklahoma
Architect
The Haskell Company/Jacksonville, Florida
Owner
St. John Health System/Tulsa, Oklahoma
Size
Hospital: 150,000 sf
MOB: 100,000 sf
Cost
Hospital: $40 million
MOB: $6.5 million
TLC Services
MEP/FP
Broken
Arrow will provide residents a top-flight medical facility
and a wide range of services. The six-story, 96-bed hospital
will have emergency care, women’s services, orthopedic
services, joint replacement, general surgery, and all-digital
diagnostic imaging services. TLC encountered an interesting
challenge when designing the new hospital. A powerful
ice storm struck Oklahoma in December 2007, knocking out
power in Tulsa for days. Afterward, the Health System
asked TLC to design a system that would provide auxiliary
power even to non-critical systems to avoid future catastrophes
-- without being cost prohibitive. We devised a method
of configuring the normal power system so connection points
are located on the exterior of the central plant where
a temporary emergency generator could be connected quickly
to the hospital’s power distribution system. The
design is independent of the code-required emergency power
system for critical and life safety systems and does not
interfere with the operation of that system. This approach
affords the security of full backup power without the
cost of installing and maintaining permanent equipment.
Construction of the MOB is complete and the hospital will
be ready for occupancy in March 2010.
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