Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center的动态

Shielded by milky, zipper-lined plastic curtains and guarded by boxed devices measuring the air pressure, a quiet – yet vitally important – transformation has been underway at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital’s Building 5, deep in the heart of the crucial health care hub. Under the direction and supervision of Public Works project and construction managers, architects and engineers, contractor crews have been adding seismic upgrades and making improvements to laboratories and health care spaces across multiple floors of the 1970s-era hospital building, located at 1001 Potrero Ave. Public Works is delivering the project on behalf of the San Francisco Department of Public Health. But unlike conventional construction sites, the work at Building 5 is taking place in carefully monitored, air-controlled bubbles so dust and hazards can’t leak out into the surrounding working health care setting used by doctors, nurses and patients. "This building is still jam-packed. There's a lot of patients that still come here every day," said Joe Chin, the Public Works engineer overseeing the massive makeover and managing the City's Public Health and Safety Bond Program. "It’s almost like the effort and preparation to do the work is even harder than doing the work itself." The projects are part of a bond-funded initiative – approved by voters in 2016 – to consolidate many of the outpatient specialty clinics into one place for patient convenience. Today, the various clinics can be found in different buildings on the sprawling campus or offsite. The revamped clinics will be able to serve more patients in a safer, more welcoming environment with expanded space for direct care and support services. Updated technology, fire-safety and electrical systems, new furnishings and other upgrades also are on tap. And, paramount to the work, crews are retrofitting the existing Building 5 structure to make sure it can better withstand a strong earthquake. Much like police stations and firehouses, hospital buildings and clinics are critically important facilities in the aftermath of a calamity. But delivering such an ambitious renovation in an active health care setting requires surgical precision and meticulous planning. And much of it starts with infection control, which means creating a barrier between the construction workspace and the rest of the hospital. No speck of dust can escape. "We’re not even talking about something hazardous, like asbestos or lead, we’re just talking about standard drywall dust and dust from general construction," Chin said. "None of that can migrate beyond our work barriers." Learn more about the work on the Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center campus and how Public Works is making sure the job gets done right: https://lnkd.in/gNPCzH2b #SFPublicWorks #Engineering #StructuralEngineering #Construction #HealthCare #ProjectManagement #ConstructionManagement #Project #Work #Safety