Fort Belvoir Community Hospital, Fort Belvoir, Va.
Posted
02/9/2012
Designed by the architectural team HDR/Dewberry, the new
world-class facility combines technology and data to advance health
care services for active duty U.S. military members, retirees and
their families.
Fort Belvoir Community Hospital includes a nine-story main
hospital building, two three-story clinical buildings and two
two-story clinical buildings. The project has achieved LEED Silver
certification and is striving to attain LEED Gold. The facility was
built by Turner Gilbane, a joint venture between Turner
Construction and Gilbane Building Co.
Opening of the massive $1.03 billion hospital culminated five
years of interservice collaboration as one of the largest and most
involved medical Base Realignment and Closure projects. The
1.27-million-square-foot facility replaces DeWitt Army Community
Hospital and will also absorb some services and patients from the
recently closed Walter Reed Army Medical Center.
With the normal 10-year procurement cycle needing to be reduced
to a five-year process to meet the BRAC timeline, the hospital was
designed and constructed using Integrated/Design/ Bid/Build. The
facility was constructed in just over three years-half the time it
normally takes to build a facility of its magnitude.
More than 36,000 Dri-Design panels covering 120,000 square feet
were utilized. The 1-mm VM Quartz Zinc panels clad five structures
in the complex. The Dri-Design panels interface with a terra cotta
façade which also utilizes a rainscreen assembly. A limited amount
of painted aluminum Dri-Design panels were also used on interior
applications including stairwell entry areas. Umicore Building
Products USA Inc. supplied the VM Quartz Zinc utilized in the
panels.
According to Col. Susan Annicelli, commander of Fort Belvoir
Community Hospital, "This is America's newest, most extraordinary,
most technically advanced facility and we are proud to have it in
the military health system."
General contractor: Turner Gilbane, Arlington,
Va.
Architects: HDR, Alexandria, Va.; and Dewberry,
Fairfax, Va.
Metal wall panels: Dri-Design, Holland, Mich.,
www.dri-design.com
Zinc: Umicore Building Products USA Inc.,
Raleigh, N.C., www.vmzinc-us.com