Rendering Courtesy of Perkins + Will

Halifax Medical Center New Patient Tower, ED Expansion and CEP/Daytona Beach, Florida

Architect
Perkins + Will/Atlanta, Georgia

Owner
Halifax Medical Center/Daytona Beach, Florida

Size
Tower: 450,000 sf
ED Expansion: 89,000 sf
Central Plant: 17,500 sf

Cost
Tower and ED Expansion: $140 million
Central Plant: $19.5 million

TLC Services
M/E/S/C&T


As the first phase of a 10-year master planning and redesign of Halifax Medical Center’s main campus, the new Patient Tower and Emergency Department will add 204 licensed beds and more than four times the space for emergency services. The 10-story tower will have all-private patient rooms and increased family space including a resource area. The new ED will be on the tower’s gound floor and will have 107 new treatment rooms. The tower’s structural design is a two-way mild reinforced cast-in-place concrete slab with concrete shear walls used as part of the lateral system. Construction will require demolition of the existing parking garage and redevelopment of the site to provide on-grade replacement parking for both the hospital and the new addition. Careful coordination is required throughout the phased construction, including the temporary relocation of the existing ED’s entrances. The existing raised helistop will be demolished and a new helistop constructed on top of the tower.Serving the tower will be the new two-story central energy plant. The plant’s cast-in-place reinforced concrete frame structure will have an exterior skin comprised of precast concrete wall panels, aluminum curtain wall and louvers, and insulating low-E glass. Three new boilers, three 1200-ton chillers, circulating pumps, three 1500-kw generators and medical vacuum and air systems will be on the first floor while new emergency generators and emergency switchgear are on the second floor. New cooling towers will be located outside on-grade with a walled enclosure to protect them against hurricane-force winds and wind-driven projectiles. TLC also provided design services for the voice-data, audio-visual and security systems for the patient tower, ED expansion and CEP.