Healthcare
Kaiser Ontario Medical Center OR/IR Shelled Space Build-Out
Four shelled-OR build-outs — 3D BIM, new HVAC, Guardian Ceiling integration.
Client
Kaiser Permanente
Location
Ontario, CA
Service Line
Design-build OR/IR build-out in the hospital building — 3D BIM, new HVAC, Guardian integrated ceilings.
Four operating rooms and one interventional radiology suite, finished out from shelled space inside the hospital building itself.
Kaiser Ontario Medical Center is a 224-bed hospital serving the west end of San Bernardino County. In the back half of 2016, Kaiser awarded Athena three design-build projects on the campus at once — the Outpatient Medical Office Expansion, the Ambulatory Surgery Center, and this one. This was the build inside the acute-care hospital, which meant the full weight of OSHPD (now HCAI) review.
The $1.7 million scope was the one with the least room for error.
The $1.7 million scope was the one with the least room for error. As prime contractor, Athena led the full 3D BIM preconstruction coordination across every trade on the job — mechanical, electrical, plumbing, structural steel, fire sprinkler, and medical gas. We carried the constructability analysis and budget validation through preconstruction, owned the schedule, and turned the project over turnkey.
The construction scope: a remodel of four existing shelled operating rooms, roughly 5,500 square feet in the hospital building, built out into four ORs and one interventional radiology room. The operating-room ceiling, by Guardian Ceiling Systems, comes as a single integrated assembly — laminar-flow diffusers, HEPA filtration, LED fixtures, and structural boom supports in one system. In a room like this, the ceiling does the clinical work: laminar flow and HEPA hold the sterile field, and Athena self-performed the mechanical HVAC behind it.
Athena handed Kaiser five finished clinical rooms: four ORs and an interventional radiology suite, ready for use.
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