Hospital Imaging & Data Wing
A new imaging and data wing plugged into a hospital that never once went dark.
- Owner
- Confidential
- Location
- U.S.
- Market
- Healthcare
- Delivery
- CM at-risk
- Scale
- 118,000 SF
- Completed
- 2024
A new imaging and clinical data wing tied into a hospital that stayed open, with MRI suites, a hardened server room and zero unplanned downtime.
The hospital needed MRI and CT suites, a hardened clinical server room and new imaging support space, attached to a building that runs around the clock. Every new feeder, chilled water line and fiber path had to tie into live systems serving patients on the other side of the wall. A missed tie-in here is not a schedule problem. It is a patient problem, and the image archive and clinical network could not lose a single minute.
The approach.
- 01
Tie-ins written as MOPs
Each shutdown had a method of procedure signed by hospital engineering, a rehearsal walk the week before and a back-out plan timed to the minute.
- 02
Magnets and steel kept apart
MRI shielding, quench vent routes and the magnet delivery path were set in the model first, then every nearby duct and hanger was checked against the field.
- 03
A server room built like a data hall
Dual-corded racks, A/B UPS feeds, in-row cooling and a fiber backbone to the existing core were load-bank tested before a single clinical system moved.
- 04
Cutover on a quiet night
The archive and clinical network migrated in a scripted overnight window with IT, vendors and our crew on one bridge call until every system checked green.
The outcome.
“Nobody inside a hospital should ever feel the construction. The best tie-in is the one the night nurse never noticed.”
Project executive, ScottHarry
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