Beyond Square Feet

Sometimes when we talk about numbers and buildings it’s your typical few key facts – square feet, construction cost, date of completion – and, we lose sight of the humanistic data. It is especially interesting to see the depth of intense human collaboration for the creation and eventual occupancy of a building as programmatically complex as a hospital – a place where hundreds more people will be treated and cared for once the building is operational.

The James Mandell Building for Children’s Hospital Boston is a ten-story urban infill building that contains much needed expansion space for the ED, Radiology, Same Day Surgery, Neurology, Pharmacy and four floors of new inpatient beds in alignment with the existing hospital. The building has prominent street frontages along Binney Street and the main drop-off for Children’s Hospital.

Before occupants and users enter the building for the first time to administer or receive healthcare, many hundreds of people worked to bring this building to life. And because of the expansion, will offer augmented services. Today we look at a snapshot.

People:

Number of Team Members from Payette

Number of Staff from Boston Children’s Hospital Facilities Management

Number of Users from Boston Children’s Hospital

Number of Participants in a User’s Meeting Prior to the Construction Documents Phase

Average Number of Construction Site Workers on any Given Day over the Previous Two Years of Construction

Healthcare Resources:

Number of New Inpatient Rooms

Number of Additional ED Exam Rooms

Number of Additional Short Stay Rooms

Number of Additional MRI Facilities

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Learn more about Boston Children’s Hospital, James Mandell Building (Boston, MA)

This project is under construction and expected to reach completion in 2013.