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Connecticut Children's
Hospital: Clinical Tower
As part of Connecticut Children’s Hospital’s expansion, Unified worked alongside DPR Construction to perform work on multiple projects that will allow for an incoming 190,000 square foot, multi-level clinical tower which will not only connect to the existing medical center but will improve the hospital’s overall efficiency, ability to provide more advanced care to more patients in the Hartford area, and reinforce Connecticut as a destination for healthcare.
Unified was contracted to work on three different projects throughout the CT Children’s Hospital campus. Starting in January 2023, we began our first projects at the NICU wing and the Behavioral Health center. Both contracts called for a complete interior gut of a cumulative 15,000 square feet.
Within the NICU project, our crews completed saw cutting work into the floor slab to allow for underground mechanicals to be installed. Using a walk behind saw, we removed the slab and completed the backfill once the mechanicals were in place.
Location
Hartford, Connecticut
Client
DPR Construction
Owner
Connecticut Children's Hospital
Architect
CannonDesign
Project Team
Project Manager: Nick Sullivan
Project Supervisor: Kelvelyn Dias
Self Perform Scope
Saw Cutting
Scaffolding
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Slab opening after saw cutting and backfill were completed.
All architectural elements in the NICU and Behavior Health centers were demo'd and disposed of including ceilings, walls, flooring and finishes. We also trashed out the old mechanicals and cut roof openings for upgraded mechanicals to be installed.
Starting in April 2023, Unified began working on our largest of the three contracts on the CT Children's campus. In order to facilitate the addition of a new ground-up tower to the campus, our crews were instructed to remove three stories worth of a brick façade and seven stories worth of glass façade. Our team, tied off and working off of staging, demo'd and removed each façade piece lowering each piece to the ground using a tower crane.
Working off of staging, Unified's team removed both brick and glass façade elements from the hospital's exterior.
Perhaps the most intricate work we performed at this project was the removal of the existing glass dome structure that sat on one of the hospital's roof tops. In preparation to take down this structure, Unified enlisted our in-house equipment manager to build staging inside the dome so our crews could access it from all levels.
First using suction cup attachments to remove the glass pieces and lowering them down via tower crane, we then used sawzalls to break up the steel frame. These pieces were also taken away one by one using the tower crane.
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Removing the glass panels using suction cup attachments and a tower crane.
Before (above) and after (below) of the removal of the glass dome structure.
Aerial view of the dome removal work, located on the hospital's roof top.
