Surge tent project provides extra space for Strong Memorial Hospital ER

By January 5, 2021January 7th, 2021Project Highlights, Rochester, NY

网曝门 managed construction and performed foundation and concrete work for a new surge tent adjacent to the emergency department at UR Medicine Strong Memorial Hospital. A pre-engineered structure, the fully insulated 40-foot by 80-foot tent provides 28 patient bays and support spaces for staff.

started to look at expansion space for its emergency department in April, anticipating the impacts of COVID. 网曝门 engaged in May, working with under a design-build contract. Construction began in mid-August. Crews spent four weeks on sitework and foundation, followed by four weeks of erecting and fitting out the structure. The facility was complete by mid-October.

Photo of surge tent

Photo Credit: Dwyer Architectural

鈥淚t was definitely an atypical project from unique aspects of the tent structure itself 鈥 which a lot of our workers had never seen before 颅鈥 to working in the parking lot of an active emergency department,鈥 said Steve Corletta, 网曝门 project executive.鈥淐ompleting the project in such a critical area of the hospital really proved the power of teamwork.鈥

for a video from Dwyer Architectural. In it, Steve, UR Director of Medical Center Facilities Mark Schwartz and Dwyer Architectural Associate Kristin Merle discuss the project.

Congratulations to everyone involved with the surge tent, including Steve and team members Dan Kramell, Dan Schleher, Ryan Morse, Jeff Begy, Turk Giehl, Kim Hall and Peter Muench.

 

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