The University of Chicago Medicine, Cancer Pavilion

overview

Chicago’s first freestanding cancer center will offer both inpatient and outpatient services dedicated to treatment and research. The eight-story building is designed for future flexibility, with the ability to add four additional floors during phase two of construction.

We are providing structural design and construction engineering services to CannonDesign for the project, which will house spaces for treating cancer using the latest technology, clinical trial spaces, patient floors, cancer prevention services and community outreach. The 575,000-square-foot building will include 80 inpatient beds, 90 consultation and outpatient exam rooms and a dedicated urgent care clinic. Amenities will include a café, wellness and meeting spaces and public art installations.

highlights

• Challenges include designing the floor framing to meet diagnostic equipment requirements on elevated floors.
• We are working closely with the design team and vibration consultant to modify the floor framing as necessary to meet vibration limits for imaging equipment and to depress floor framing and incorporate non-ferrous reinforcement to limit interference from the steel framing members to the MRI.
• Spaces in the basement of the building have been designed for future LINAC equipment, with modifications made to accommodate shielding.
• Elevated pedestrian bridges will connect the cancer center to the adjacent parking garage at level two and to the existing Center for Care and Discovery building at level five.