Engineering Services for Hospital Expansion
Robert Packer Hospital, Sayre, Pennsylvania
Services:
- Site/Civil Design
- Landscape Design
Schedule: 16 Months
Budget: $45,000
Tasks:
- Grading and drainage plans
- Utility details sheets
- Sanitary profiles
- Water main profiles
- Final specifications
- Site geometry/dimension control plans
- Site utility plans
- Soil erosion and sediment control plans
- Enlarged entry layouts and grading plans
- Bidding and contract administration assistance
Project Highlights:
- Guthrie Health Care Systems retained O’Brien & Gere to provide geotechnical services related to an addition to the Robert Packer Hospital.
- Four 20,000-gallon underground storage tanks, for storage of fuel oil used as a back-up fuel source for the hospital’s dual-fired boilers, were located in the proposed expansion area.
- Reviewed PADEP regulatory requirements
- Evaluated the hospital’s need for four tanks, and recommended moving one or, at the most, two tanks to the vicinity of the boiler/maintenance building.
- Soil testing was performed at the original site of the tanks to confirm that the area was free of contaminants.
- Identified storm water management issues and provided coordination with the parking deck consultant and utility providers.
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