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Mayo Clinic
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Mayo Hospital will undergo twenty years of expansion to its campus
in Scottsdale. Syska Hennessy Group helped Mayo develop a master
plan design for the proposed expansion of more than 4.1 million
square feet for healthcare and support facilities. The challenge
in developing the plan was how to efficiently approach a long-term
expansion project that involves the addition of 15 buildings in
an industry of rapidly changing technology. Syska Hennessy Group
addressed issues such as: how to accommodate uptime needs for
critical facilities during construction, the technology explosion
in communications, and how to build an infrastructure with both
the ability to expand and the capacity to operate the campus efficiently.
Syska Hennessy Group utilized its healthcare and campus infrastructure
expertise to develop concepts for the phased expansion of all
engineering systems on campus, including water, normal and emergency
power, telecommunications raceway, and medical and natural gasses.
The critical facilities redundancy and flexibility needs were
addressed so that as the infrastructure systematically grows,
it will be able to expand without shutting down the facilities.
The plan also recognized growth accommodation for communications
systems. This will allow research, healthcare, and educational
information to be disseminated through an advanced network unaffected
by expansion. Mayo was very interested in paperless communication
and this system is designed to accommodate that need.
In addition, Mayo was interested in budgets that could be developed
on a year-to-year basis. To provide this, Syska worked with the
contractor and developed a 5-year plan for infrastructure costs,
showing the scope of costs for each year, and putting numbers
to every phase.
With the resources of a national firm, Syska Hennessy Group responded
to the issues of this project quickly, and, in developing this
consultative master plan, worked to find what was most beneficial
to the owner and administrative people at Mayo.
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