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Arrowhead Regional Medical Center
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Planning a replacement medical center near two large faults with
the potential for an 8.3 magnitude earthquake requires extensive
thought on how to keep the 24-hour trauma center in operation at
all times. San Bernardino County officials faced this issue while
planning their replacement Medical Center. This facility, with the
third biggest trauma center on the West Coast, rests on both the
San Andreas and San Jacinto faults. Syska Hennessy Group worked
with other design team members to come up with the solution for
their uptime reliability needs.
The Arrowhead seismic pipes.
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The 920,000 sq. ft. replacement hospital is built on 392 base isolators
which allows the building to rock. Syska Hennessy Group designed
unique flexible joints in the electrical and mechanical utility
lines that lead into the buildings. These joints have been tested
and will sway horizontally to allow the pipes to rock with the building
instead of bursting.
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Arrowhead nurses' station
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The new health care facility consists of a 6-story nursing tower
attached to a 4-story diagnostic treatment and 3-story outpatient
clinic building, a new central plant, and a 3-story mental health
building. The program includes patient rooms, burn units, LDR, nursery,
operating suites, radiology, laboratories, out-patient clinics,
emergency rooms, and mental health. The central plant supplies chilled
water, steam, medical gases, and emergency power for the main hospital.
The building is designed with a state-of-the-art energy management
control system.
Arrowhead Regional Medical Center won Engineering News Record's
1998 Engineered Building of the Year Award.
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