For healthcare environments, engineering plays a critical role in patient healing, comfort, security, and safety. Proficient in acute and ambulatory care settings, SKA approaches healthcare design by trying to maximize the patient experience. SKA’s projects cover many different aspects of healthcare facility needs: surgery/operating, additions, expansions, renovations, new construction, condition assessments, parking decks, ambulatory care renovations, medical office buildings and plaza deck waterproofing.
FEATURED PROJECTS
Novant Health 10 Hospitals
Novant Health engaged SKA’s services to provide a condition assessment of ten hospitals. The project scope involved reviewing available construction documents, maintenance reports, and repair documents provided by Novant Health. SKA conducted a visual walk-through...
Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Enabling/Helipad
Working with a design build team, SKA served as structural engineer for SKA will provide vertical gravity and lateral supports for the new helipad and elevated walkway. The helipad and walkway horizontal framing were designed by FEC and design loads were provided to...
Novant Health HVI-CI Parking Deck
SKA was the prime designer and Engineer of Record for the new Novant Health Heart and Vascular Institute-Cancer Institute (HVI-CI) parking deck in Midtown Charlotte. The new eight-story parking deck consists of approximately 1,004 spaces and 391,000 sf, and consists...
Atrium Health Mercy Hospital
Atrium Health is a multi-story masonry structure with sections of the building constructed in the 1930’s, 1950’s, and 1980’s. The building has experienced a history of masonry distress conditions and moisture intrusion problems. SKA prepared phase 1 design documents...
WakeMed Cary Expansion
SKA performed a third party review of the building envelope design at multiple stages including at SD, DD, 50%CD and 95% CD. Throughout the process SKA provided comments to the Architectural team. Several work sessions were conducted to review SKA’s comments with the...
Cone Health LeBauer Medical Office Building
SKA joined with local architects for this two-story, 19,124 sf, $5.5M medical office building. SKA provided mechanical, electrical, and plumbing design engineering services. The design included over 30 exam rooms, several ultrasound rooms, an x-ray room, several...
Novant Health Eight Parking Decks
Novant Health engaged SKA’s services to provide condition assessments of eight parking decks. The project scope involved review of available construction documents, maintenance reports, and repair documents provided by Novant Health. SKA conducted visual assessments...
Atrium Health Pineville Deck
SKA was the structural engineer of record on a new 8-level precast parking structure for Atrium Health in Pineville, NC. SKA provided foundation design, coordination of the precast superstructure, and construction contract administration services. The design included...
Atrium Levine Brenner Children’s Hospital
Noted as the first Level 1 Pediatric Trauma Center in the state, the only pediatric emergency department in the region, and the first emergency department constructed under a parking deck in North Carolina, this $8 million new construction project completed in 2010....
Valley Health Winchester Medical Center
SKA provided multi-disciplinary services including a structural peer review, design, building envelope commissioning and quality assurance testing during construction. As the structural engineer of record on this four-story, 70,600 sf addition, our design incorporated...
Cone Health Three Projects
SKA conducted third party design reviews of the Building Envelope Systems to include below grade waterproofing, exterior façade, plaza waterproofing and roofing for Cone Health on the North Tower, Central Energy Plant, and Wesley Long Hospital (264,000 sf and $200M...
Atrium Health Musculoskeletal Institute
Atrium Health renovated the existing Mercy Hospital at 2001 Vail Avenue, Charlotte, NC to become the Musculoskeletal Institute (MSKI). The MSKI Project renovation consisted of approximately 50% of the existing department areas including, the Sterile Processing...