 Rendering
of one of the most dramatic features of the building, its south
façade, transparent glass perimeter climate wall that
provides for an expansive view of the Hudson River.
(Images provided courtesy of Pei Cobb Freed + Partners)
New York-Presbyterian Hospital (NYPH) is one of the most comprehensive
university hospitals in the world, with leading specialists in
every field of medicine. Composed of two renowned medical centers,
New York Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center
and New York Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center,
and affiliated with two Ivy League medical institutions, Columbia
University College of Physicians & Surgeons and Weill Medical
College of Cornell University, NYPH is recognized as one of the
nation's top academic medical centers, noted for clinical and service
excellence and for patient care.
With this new five-story, 140,000 sq. ft. addition to the
Milstein Hospital it is NYPH’s goal to complete its establishment
of a world class, high performance heart hospital. This new ambulatory
care building will incorporate state of the art diagnostic and
treatment options that represent the most sophisticated advances
in medicine. The building will also provide NYPH the opportunity
to shift research, clinical care and education to an ambulatory
setting. The project focus will be to provide patient-focused care
with state of the art diagnostic and therapeutic suites. This will
lead the way to the establishment of the next generation of minimally
invasive techniques, as well as provide a leadership position for
the hospital with regards to cardiology education, focus on translational
research and integration of research and clinical medicine in cardiac
care.
As part of their efforts to become a paperless hospital, NYPH
has implemented a comprehensive Clinical Information System. The
system ties together many systems within the hospital that were
once handled individually or manually. This system not only serves
the patient’s needs at the highest level, but also allows
the hospital to meet the stringent government requirements regarding
privacy assurance and transaction standardization. Centralized
storage and information retrieval is made possible by a hospital
data network. Much of the medical equipment in use today ties into
this network and serves as a centralized information storage and
retrieval hub. To accommodate the needs of these systems, Syska
is designing a voice and data cable infrastructure for the new
Heart Hospital which will be capable of supporting all the hospital’s
communications requirements.
 Interior
view of the climate wall with the venetian blinds.
(Images provided courtesy of Pei
Cobb Freed + Partners)
Comprehensive treatment at this facility will touch not only the
patients, but the families, physicians, surgeons, nurses and other
healthcare professionals alike. The facility incorporates many
high-tech engineering systems that will improve the quality of
life of the building’s inhabitants through the incorporation
of such systems as: indoor air quality monitoring, year-round cooling,
highly reliable electric power sources and energy efficient systems
acceptable for NYSERDA grants and potential LEED® certification.
One of the most dramatic features of the building is its south
façade, transparent, glass perimeter climate wall that provides
for an expansive view of the Hudson River. The wall provides natural
daylight into the interior space on all floors and promotes a healing
environment. It is composed of a double glass façade assembly
that will improve the perimeter thermal envelope performance of
the building. The climate wall consists of two glass walls with
a 36” cavity between them. The cavity between the two walls
is ventilated by using the spill air from the sub-cellar AHUs and
is ventilated and preheated to prevent condensation on the glass
surfaces. The wall air system is integrated by a supply air fan
with filters and heating coil with eight exhaust air fans on the
roof. The climate wall utilizes 75°F spill air to prevent heat
accumulation in the cavity and processors substantially reduce
the solar heat load to the building. A BMS system operates the
venetian blinds and the interior lighting to control the shading
and day lighting of the space.
Syska Hennessy Group is providing MEP/FP/FA/IT/SEC systems for
the design of this new addition that allow for ease of navigation
by connecting the Milstein Building to the Irving Pavilion. The
project scope includes 59,000 sq. ft. of renovation work on
all floors of the two adjacent buildings to complete the connection
of the building’s interior and exterior. The expansion of
the Milstein Building will benefit the hospital in that it will
allow for programmatic adjacencies and important expansion of key
cardiology services, including: Diagnostic Imaging and Therapeutics,
Interventional Cardiology, clinical practice space for cardiology
and operating rooms including Angiography ORs.
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