Health Care Project Profiles

Andrews AFB Ambulatory Care Center and Dental Clinic Replacement 
Joint Base Andrews, Maryland  

• Andrews AFB Ambulatory Care Center (ACC) is a fully sprinklered 172,000 ± sq. ft., four story facility of Type IB construction with a three story pedestrian walkway leading to a four tier open parking garage of Type IIB construction, and a one story pedestrian walkway connecting the new building to an existing one. The project also included a one story Central Energy Plant of Type IIB construction.
• The ACC is a single Business/Ambulatory Care occupancy with storage and assembly accessory occupancies.
• The clinic was designed under the 2009 Life Safety Code, 2009 International Building Code and relevant DOD Unified Facilities Criteria.
• The Dental Clinic is a new fully sprinklered two story, 31,450 ± sq. ft. facility of Type IIB unprotected non-combustible construction with a mechanical penthouse.
• The Dental Clinic is a single business occupancy with an accessory storage occupancy.
The clinic was designed under the 2009 Life Safety Code, 2009 International Building Code and relevant DOD Unified Facilities Criteria.
Lovett Consultants provided design narratives, code summaries, life safety, fire suppression, and fire alarm and mass notification reviews in addition to general code consulting.

Veterans Affairs Medical Center
Orlando, Florida

• This is an addition to the existing Orlando Veterans Affairs Hospital.
• 2 single story buildings; 5 multi-story buildings
• Mixed Occupancy, New & Ambulatory Health Care, Business, Residential Board and Care, Industrial, Storage, Institutional
• NFPA Life Safety Code and International Building Code, Types II-(222) & II-(000) Construction
• The 31,000 sq. ft., 3 story Domiciliary is sprinklered throughout with several smoke zones. The 47,000 sq. ft., single story Central Energy Plant is sprinklered throughout and houses the diesel generator that severes the hospital and clinic. The 633,000 sq. ft., 4 tier Parking Garage is an unlimited area open parking structure. The 963,000 sq. ft., 4 story Hopsital and Clinic is fully sprinklered throughout with a four story atrium between the hospital and clinic portions of the building. The 109,000 sq. ft. Nursing Home composes of three fully sprinklered residentail pods with covered pedestrian walkways connecting them. The 56,000 sq. ft., 2 story Warehouse is sprinklred throughout with a two story atrium, a environmentally hazardous storage room, a flammable storage room and is connected to the hospital via a covered pedestrian walkway.
• Lovett Consultants provided code analysis, exit calculations, fire protection programs, sprinkler design, water flow calculations and general code and fire protection consulting for each building.

Fort Irwin Replacement Hospital 
Fort Irwin, CA

• The hospital replacement is a fully sprinklered four story, 221,000 ± sq. ft. hospital/clinic of Type IB protected, non-combustible construction with a mechanical penthouse.  In addition to the hospital, the project included a one story Central Energy Plant of Type IIB unprotected non-combustible construction and renovations to the single-story, 30,000  ± sq. ft. Mary Walker Clinic.
  
• The hospital/clinic has three major use groups, Hospital/ Health Care, Business and Storage with one accessory use group, Assembly, which creates a mixed occupancy classification for the hospital/clinic. 
• The hospital/clinic was designed under the 2009 Life Safety Code, 2009 International Building Code and relevant DOD Unified Facilities Criteria.
• Lovett Consultants provided design narratives, code summaries, life safety, fire suppression, and fire alarm and mass notification reviews in addition to general code consulting.