Outpatient Surgery & Imaging Pavilion
Eight operating rooms and a full imaging suite opened on a medical campus that kept seeing patients the entire time.
- Owner
- Confidential
- Location
- U.S.
- Market
- Healthcare
- Delivery
- CM at-risk
- Scale
- 184,000 SF
- Completed
- 2024
Eight operating rooms, a full imaging suite and a same-day recovery unit, connected to a live medical campus by an enclosed bridge.
The pavilion had to connect to a working campus by an enclosed bridge, so one end of the job was always touching occupied clinical space. MRI magnets, robotic surgery booms and lead-lined imaging rooms each carried their own structural, shielding and power demands. Equipment vendors finalized their requirements late, and every late answer threatened the ceiling coordination above the operating rooms.
The approach.
- 01
Equipment drove the schedule
Vendor decision dates for imaging and surgical booms were loaded into the CPM schedule as hard constraints, so a late choice showed up as lost float weeks before it hit the field.
- 02
Ceilings solved before rough-in
Medical gas, ductwork, boom supports and shielding were modeled room by room, and each OR ceiling was signed off before a hanger went up.
- 03
The bridge built at night
The connection to the existing building was opened in scripted overnight shifts behind negative-air barriers checked by infection control each morning.
- 04
Rooms proven before staff
Pressure relationships, air changes and magnet shielding were measured and documented before clinical teams ran their first mock case.
The outcome.
“An operating room is a machine with walls around it. We scheduled the machine first and built the walls to fit.”
Project executive, GilbertLanham
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