Projects: El Camino Hospital Replacement

El Camino Hospital Replacement

El Camino Hospital Replacement in Mountain View, Calif.

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For more than a decade, Thornton Tomasetti has provided structural
engineering services for the 41-acre El Camino campus in the heart of the
Silicon Valley. We helped the hospital assess the risk of damage to its
existing 40-year-old facility in the event of a major earthquake.

The decision was made to replace and be one of the first hospitals in
California to achieve California Senate Bill 1953 Compliance, with each
building structure and its contents designed for some of the most rigorous
seismic requirements in the world. The new 450,000-square-foot patient
tower is a five-story structural steel frame with 241 beds which took 37
months to construct (on time and within budget). It includes 10 state-of-theart
surgical suites (including a DaVinci S-HD robotic system), a 30-bed
pediatric unit for Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital, a genomic medical
institute, a state-of-the-art imaging department with digital X-Ray, MRI, CT,
PET/CT, and interventional radiology room, as well as 16 specialized robots
to deliver medication.

Thornton Tomasetti also expanded the existing central plant by 6,000 square
feet and replaced virtually every piece of equipment housed within it. We
designed two medical office buildings, Willow and Melchor Pavilions, totaling
121,000 square feet, as well as a 7,000-square-foot outpatient cancer
therapy building housing linear accelerators and CyberKnife technology. We
also developed the design of a 120,000-square-foot mixed specialty building
to house physician offices and outpatient clinics and a 600-car parking
structure.

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