Rendering Courtesy of MGE Architects

West Kendall Baptist Hospital/Kendall, Florida

Architect
MGE Architects Inc/Wilmot Sanz/Coral Gables, Florida

Owner
Baptist Health South Florida/Coral Gables, Florida

Size/Cost
288,086-sf/$100 million

TLC Services
M/E/C&T


The new West Kendall Baptist Hospital will provide needed services to the growing community on the southeast edge of the Everglades. The four-story hospital will have 80 licensed acute-care inpatient beds and 54 outpatient/observation beds. Three 900-ton, high-efficiency centrifugal chillers will provide chilled water for the hospital and adjacent medical arts building, along with six-cell, low-noise acoustic cooling towers on the roof of the central plant. Two 300-BHP fire-tube boilers provide steam for sterilization and hot water needs. Two 2,000-kW generators will provide backup power while a third 2,000-kW generator will serve as a standby for future expansion. The bi-fuel generators are designed to use a mix of 50% natural gas and 50% diesel fuel. The entire hospital and medical arts building are designed to withstand impacts and winds of up to 180 mph (a Category 5 hurricane) and equipped to be self-sustaining for up to seven days in a power outage. Fiber optics and copper structured cabling systems serve a wide range of healthcare technology systems. Security system design included coordination and selection of surveillance video equipment, access control, infant abduction prevention and duress alarm system. TLC provided sustainable MEP design, energy modeling and LEED administrative services. The building is USGBC LEED registered.