Stanford Hospital Clinical Lab Replacement

Stanford Clinical Lab was comprised of four initial phases. The initial phase consisted of a rehabilitation work in preparation for the more robust rehabilitation in phases 2 and 4. These larger phases involved craning in a temporary air handling unit which would provide airflow into adjacent spaces while we stripped down and completely rebuilt the Clinical Lab space. The phase 2 workspace was also located directly below active operation rooms that would not allow for noise and vibration to occur during ongoing operations, commonly unscheduled and critical to patient survival.

Harris also performed a tear down and rebuild of mechanical room air handling units. The unique challenge to this scenario was coordinating ductwork tie-ins and transfers between initial air handling equipment, to temporary equipment, and subsequently back to the new built up air handling unit, without impacting the facility heating and cooling system. Being that the AHU’s served both construction space and occupied space, our balancing and commissioning and duct main tie in fittings had to be spot on.

Throughout each phase, new plumbing systems were installed in associated construction spaces, the mechanical room, occupied adjacent spaces and seismic upgrades to many existing utilities. Beyond typical plumbing services, the Clinical Lab redesign included a dual loop system for reverse osmosis and deionized water treatment, with redundancy, to ensure lab testing could always be performed and uninterrupted.