Broward Health Coral Springs
South Tower Addition
Project Narrative
The goal of the project is to expand the hospital with a new Maternity service wing and
increase the number of private patient rooms. The proposed expansion is to occur on
the southeast side of the existing building, adding a fourth wing to the patient tower
configuration. The CEP will incur an emergency generator replacement.
Site
The new structure is to be located at the existing Main Entrance of the hospital,
projecting toward the southeast. This will entail a re-configuration of the main entrance
drive and the parking in the front of the building. A new vehicular traffic circulation
pattern will be developed that provides a main drive to the hospital, with a circular drop
off on the east. A secondary entrance with a drop-off will be created on the west side of
the new tower for the Maternity entrance. The existing parking will be reworked to
accommodate the new vehicular traffic patterns, maintaining the maximum number of
spaces. Landscaping and site lighting will be enhanced for the new work and building.
Building
The Tower addition will be a multi-story story concrete frame structure with concrete
joists and pilings foundation designed to house the Mother/Baby program and Med/Surg
patient rooms, along with creating new entrances as described above. New construction
on the first floor will total approximately 26,000 sf, and 5,000 of renovation.
The first floor will have a new main entrance Lobby that will receive the patients and
visitors and serve as a point of reference from which they will be directed to their
destinations within the facility. The existing area now occupied by the Lobby and Gift
shop will be reworked to become the connector to the vertical circulation core. In the
interim during construction, this area will need to be the temporary Lobby, with a
temporary drop-off canopy, allowing for the construction area to be isolated from the
public. The balance of the first floor will have the new Maternity Suite, with ten LDR
Rooms, a Triage Area, PACU and two to three C-Section Rooms with the appropriate
support areas.
A new Elevator core will be added to connect the first floor to the upper floors,
specifically providing a direct connection between the Maternity Suite and the Neo-Natal
unit.
The second floor will be occupied by the relocated NICU and 28 new private PostPartum Rooms. The area closest to the existing hospital will have the new 10-bed
NICU, with approximately half of the stations being private and the others being open
bays, with the support areas located within easy access. The other half of the floor will
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Broward Health Coral Springs
South Tower Addition
Project Narrative
have the Post-Partum Rooms, configured in a race-track layout with a core of services
and the rooms on the perimeter. New construction on the second floor will total
approximately 26,000 sf.
The third floor will have the new Med/Surg wing, with 28 new patient Rooms, configured
with a service core and the rooms in the perimeter. The fourth floor is to be shelled, with
all the utilities in place for future development as a patient floor. The space is to be air
conditioned and lighted as required. New construction on the third and fourth floor will
total approximately 21,000 sf, each.
Mechanical
The HVAC system will be expanded into the new space, with controls and integration
into the existing system. The expansion will be supported by multiple air handling units,
at least two per floor, with chilled water provided from the Central Energy Plant.
Exhaust fans for general exhaust and isolation exhaust as required by the program will
be NOA rated and located on the roof of the expansion. Chilled water and Hot water
will be evaluated for capacity as part of the early part of the project.
Medical gas service will be expanded into new expansion and evaluated for size and
capacity.
Electrical
The electrical system will be expanded into the new space, with integration into the
existing system.
A part of this project will be the expansion and replacement of the existing essential
system parallel switchgear and the transfer switches serving the critical, life safety, and
equipment branches for the facility. The normal switchgear is of sufficient size to
support this expansion.
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