Tacoma General Hospital is a regional trauma center for the South Puget Sound Region. PCS has been the Campus Engineer for MultiCare Health System for more than 20 years and has designed over one million square feet of new surgical suites, patient rooms, laboratory and outpatient spaces that serve the community. PCS provides all levels of service for the hospital from the designing the supports for mechanical units to utilizing the latest in Performance Based Seismic Design techniques to provide the highest degree of life safety for the new Emergency Department facility, Patient Tower, and Central Utility plant.
Milgard Pavilion provides a state-of-the-art facility built to expand Emergency Department services. The new addition brings the facility to 250,000 square-feet and eight stories and houses 77 patient exam and treatment rooms as well as the MultiCare Regional Cancer Center, which includes 27 oncology exam rooms. The structure combines a structural steel and concrete vertical system with a ductile concrete core wall lateral system designed using the latest Performance Based Seismic Design requirements to provide the highest degree of life safety for the occupants.
The Rainier Pavilion provides a state-of-the-art facility built to expand neonatal and neonatal intensive care at Tacoma General Hospital. The new eight-story, 125,320 square-foot facility will also house expanded labor and delivery facilities, general medical and surgical units and private NICU rooms. In order to utilize floor space most efficiently and create open exterior walls the lateral system was designed using side plate moment frames and buckling restrained braced frames. Life Safety Performance, Immediate Occupancy and Continuous Operation were critical for this facility. This led to the use of Performance Based Design utilizing a non-linear time history analysis which saved construction dollars and yielded a better performing, more cost effective building.
