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.
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