GEISINGER MEDICAL CENTER LABORATORY FACILITY - Satisfying Owner Project Requirements in a Mixed-Use Medical Building
GEISINGER MEDICAL CENTER LABORATORY FACILITY - Satisfying Owner Project Requirements in a Mixed-Use Medical Building
3 PagesCHALLENGE When Geisinger Health System started the process of planning for a new, five-level laboratory and office addition on their main medical campus in Danville, Pennsylvania, they faced the challenge of designing a building that would meet various operational needs under one roof – blending together an expansion of their food and cafeteria services, staff and employee offices, and clinical laboratories including a stem cell research laboratory, phlebotomy areas, histology and cytology laboratories, open laboratories, and a cleanroom BSL-3 laboratory. The 158,000-square-foot building would also contain 8,000 square feet of shell space for future use and an 18,000-square-foot penthouse for the HVAC systems serving the laboratories. With a diverse building use came the need to
