Sterile Processing and Decontamination Center, New Orleans, La.
Posted
01/12/2012
Located in New
Orleans, the 4,000-square-foot Sterile Processing
and Decontamination facility for the Southeast Louisiana
Veterans Health Care System houses operations that clean sterilize
and repackage reusable medical equipment from earlier medical and
dental procedures at the hospital.
Completed in April 2011, Fauntleroy Latham Weldon Barré,
Covington, La., served as the architects on the design-build
project. The firm had to develop a spatial plan and mechanical
systems that isolate offices, a dual-purpose conference/training
room and storage area from the space dedicated to decontamination
activity. One particular challenge the firm faced was configuring
the building's footprint to the underlying pilings of a former
building.
John C. Bose, Consulting Engineering LLC, New Orleans, served as
the structural engineer for the prior building and for the new
project. As a result, Bose still had the necessary reference
drawings in storage and went on to design the current building's
foundation that was built on an elevated pad.
Once the foundation and design plans were in place, Kent
Construction, a Butler Builder out of Mandeville, La., installed
several metal building systems including framing, a MR-24 standing
seam metal roof system and a TextureWall wall panel system, all
from Butler Manufacturing, Kansas City, Mo. A six-month fast track
schedule mandated careful coordination by the project team. Speed
of construction made metal building systems the logical solution to
meeting the expedited design and construction schedule.
Butler Manufacturing,
www.butlermfg.com