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FIRM OVERVIEW
STAFF EXPERTISE
MECHANICAL SYSTEMS
ELECTRICAL SYSTEMS
MEDICAL COMMUNICATIONS
SECURITY
COMMISSIONING
SUSTAINABLE DESIGN
SELECT CLIENT LISTING
HEALTH CARE EXPERIENCE
CONTACT US
CONTENTS
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Newcomb & Boyd’s innovative engineering solutions have successfully met the needs of many sophisticated and knowledgeable institutional, military, and commercial clients. Our practice focus includes aviation, campus infrastructure, civic and cultural, corporate, criminal justice, health care, higher education, hospitality and mixed-use, industrial, military, mission critical, office, sports, and science and technology facilities.
Newcomb & Boyd’s practice includes projects in 49 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and more than 30 foreign countries.
Initially founded as a mechanical/electrical design firm, Newcomb & Boyd responded to clients’ service needs with the seamless integration of additional disciplines including commissioning, acoustics, audio-visual, communications, theatre systems, security, lighting, and intelligent building systems design.
FIRM OVERVIEW
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Newcomb & Boyd has significant experience with health care projects, having participated in over 400 projects in the last ten years.
Our personnel are actively involved in professional organizations that shape health care codes and standards, including participation on:• ASHRAE’s Healthcare Technical Committee• FGI Committee to Revise Healthcare Facilities Guidelines• HCS Codes and Standards Review Committee for the Healthcare
Section of the NFPA
Additionally, our staff have spoken regularly at industry events, including:• Healthcare Design Conference• Healthcare Facilities Symposium & Expo• Florida Agency for Healthcare Administration• Georgia Society of Hospital Engineers• American Society of Healthcare Engineering• Green Guide for Healthcare/Hospitals for a Healthy Environment
(GGHC/H2E) teleconference
STAFF EXPERTISE
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Mechanical systems typically use large quantities of energy in a hospital. Beyond replacing aging infrastructure, equipment replacement projects should evaluate opportunities for installation of high performance systems that can offer a substantial impact on energy costs. Design philosophies and technologies can be implemented to reduce energy use while still maintaining required ventilation rates, temperatures and humidities. Retrocommissioning and continuous commissioning of mechanical systems, especially of chiller and boiler plants, central station air handling units and HVAC controls, can assist facilities managers with operation optimization.
MECHANICAL SYSTEMS
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Electrical systems in health care facilities have to blend many characteristics: they must be robust and flexible enough to handle changes in program, both department and equipment wise, while also being reliable and easy to maintain. They should also be arranged and protected so that they can survive natural disasters. Some strategies employed to meet these goals are the use of closed transition automatic transfer switches to minimize interruptions when testing engine-generator sets, uninterruptible power systems to serve critical functions especially in operating and procedure rooms, strategically locating engine-generator sets so that they are not subjected to flooding, and providing distribution infrastructure that is sized not only for today’s load, but anticipates future loads. As recent events have taught us, the locations and protection of fuel system components is also vital to the survivability of emergency power systems.
ELECTRICAL SYSTEMS
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Competition among hospitals to remain competitive is fueled in part by investing in new technology. Medical communications systems include specialized systems. More importantly, they require experienced personnel who can interface with both the medical staff and the design team to understand operational goals. These networked systems provide more than traditional communications. Patient monitoring and access to patient records are modern medical tools for a more efficient medical staff.
• Patient monitoring • Operating room video• Teleconferencing• Nurse call • Code blue • MATV/SMATV/CATV • Educational programming networks• Telemedicine• Radio paging• Radio dispatch (911)• Interactive patient directories• Patient and staff/equipment tracking • Patient telemetry• Infant protection
MEDICAL COMMUNICATIONS
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To maintain The Joint Commission (TJC) accreditation, health care facilities must develop and implement a security plan addressing the seven TJC areas of safety, security, hazardous materials and waste, emergency preparedness, life safety, medical, and utility systems. Newcomb & Boyd’s specialists can assist in developing a management plan as well as implementing the policy, procedures, training, and electronic security systems.
SECURITY
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Commissioning is the systematic process of ensuring that all health care building systems perform interactively according to the owner’s project requirements and operational needs. The commissioning process includes and coordinates the traditionally separate functions of equipment start-up, adjustment, system performance testing and balancing, control systems calibration, construction and facility documentation, and owner training. The commissioning process is not intended to reduce the involvement or responsibility of the system designers or contractors, but to aid them in delivering a finished and fully functioning product.
Newcomb & Boyd’s commissioning group has the specialized experience and expertise necessary to commission and recommission health care facilities. Members of our team have worked in the health care industry for a combined total of more than 120 years.
In addition to commissioning, Newcomb & Boyd has extensive experience in retrocommissioning. Retrocommissioning occurs in the event that existing facility systems, present operating requirements, or present load conditions no longer allow the facility to operate in accordance with the design, and may no longer meet the owner’s original or current requirements. An experienced perspective can identify the fundamental causes of operational difficulties using a step-by-step evaluation, including studies, analyses and reports of the current situation and functional testing of existing systems. Once issues are identified, corrective actions are recommended and implemented.
COMMISSIONING
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Energy management has for many years played a central role in our basic design approach. We have performed original research for each of the basic research laboratories for the Department of Defense, and developed methodology and application guidelines for computer-based energy management systems. In the early 1980s, we were retained by the United States Air Force to “write the book” for design of energy monitoring and control systems. That work took us to military bases throughout the United States and Europe, and provided us the foundation from which to develop that practice for corporate, health care and college/university campuses. Today, our firm has become a leader in the field of energy-conscious design of building systems that are cost effective from a life cycle standpoint, yet apply new technology.
With respect to the LEED process, we currently have 81 projects that have received LEED certification at various levels, along with 45 other projects that have been, or will be, submitted for a rating.
Currently, we have 53 LEED Accredited Professionals on staff, including every Partner. Members of our staff have been presenters at the Greenbuild and Labs21 International Conferences.
In addition to our participation in the USGBC, our engineers are established experts on the subject of sustainable design, having had several articles published on the subject, and been on the speaker’s platform at national and international conferences regarding sustainability issues.
SUSTAINABLE DESIGN
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SELECT CLIENT LISTING
Beaufort Memorial HospitalBeaufort, South Carolina
Carolinas Healthcare SystemCharlotte, North Carolina
Central PrisonRaleigh, North Carolina
Children’s Healthcare of AtlantaAtlanta, Georgia
Children’s HospitalNew Orleans, Louisiana
Coastal Carolina HospitalHardeeville, South Carolina
Colleton Medical CenterWalterboro, South Carolina
Department of Veterans AffairsMultiple Locations
Duke University Health SystemDurham, North Carolina
Palmetto Health SystemColumbia, South Carolina
Ralph H. Johnson VA Medical CenterCharleston, South Carolina
Roper HospitalCharleston, South Carolina
Saint Francis HospitalGreenville, South Carolina
Southeast Georgia Health SystemBrunswick, Georgia
Tripler Army Medical CenterHonolulu, Hawaii
UF Health at JacksonvilleJacksonville, Florida
University of Miami Miller School of MedicineMiami, Florida
William Jennings Bryan Dorn VA Medical CenterColumbia, South Carolina
Emory HealthcareAtlanta, Georgia
Georgetown Memorial HospitalGeorgetown, South Carolina
Grady Memorial HospitalAtlanta, Georgia
Houston Medical CenterWarner Robins, Georgia
Laurens County HospitalLaurens, South Carolina
Mayo Clinic JacksonvilleJacksonville, Florida
Medical University Hospital AuthorityCharleston, South Carolina
Medical University of South CarolinaCharleston, South Carolina
North Fulton Regional HospitalRoswell, Georgia
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HEALTH CARE EXPERIENCE
HOLLINGS CANCER CENTER RENOVATION Medical University of South Carolina Charleston, South Carolina Hellmuth, Obata + Kassabaum, Inc.
• Research space• Vivarium• Three CT scanners• Simulator room• Linear accelerator• Tomography room• Diagnostic and treatment areas• Radiation oncology• Chemotherapy• Pharmacy• Phlebotomy• Administrative and support areas• 208,000 total square feet
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MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINACharleston, South Carolina
• Clinical Science Building noise study• Medical School Data Center RFP
preparation• Institute of Psychology Vivarium air
handling system evaluation• Rutledge Tower AHU-9 replacement• Vivaria mechanical systems study• Executive Health Suite renovation in
Ashley River Tower
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MEDICAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL AUTHORITYCharleston, South Carolina
• Ashley River Tower Health Suite Expansion 2,000 square feet
• Center for Anatomical Studies and Education Laboratory 600 square feet
• MUSC Children’s Hospital Protective Environment Rooms and Airborne Infection Suite 800 square feet
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OPERATING ROOM RENOVATIONEmory University HospitalAtlanta, GeorgiaHKS,Inc.
• Addition of six operating rooms• One hybrid room • Pre-Op space• PACU space • Endoscopy Suite • Phased renovation• Includes analysis of all mechanical utilities serving
the hospital • 70,000 square feet
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EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT ADDITION AND RENOVATIONGrady Memorial HospitalAtlanta, Georgia FreemanWhite, Inc.
• Five story, 77,200 square foot addition• 64,850 square foot renovation• Provides additional emergency core center
space• Dedicated detention holding and treatment• Two floors of offices• MRI floor• 142,570 total square feet
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MARCUS STROKE & NEUROSCIENCE CENTERGrady Memorial HospitalAtlanta, Georgia HKS, Inc.
• Twenty bed neuro Intensive Care Unit• In 2005, Grady became the first “safety-net”
public hospital in the US to be certified as a Primary Stroke Center by The Joint Commission
• 21,000 total square feet
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MARCUS TRAUMA CENTERGrady Memorial HospitalAtlanta, Georgia Hellmuth, Obata + Kassabaum, Inc.
• Eight trauma bays• Eight bed clinical decision unit• Space for a future 64 slice CT scanner • Support space• 19,000 square feet
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PETE AND ADA LEECORRELL CARDIACCARE CENTERGrady Memorial HospitalAtlanta, Georgia LEO A DALY
• Renovation and expansion• Cardiac stress laboratory• Two stretcher bays• Two treadmill stations• Catheterization labs• Electrophysiology lab• Eight bed admissions/recovery area• Patient holding• Family waiting area• 12,000 square feet
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NICU RENOVATIONGrady Memorial HospitalAtlanta, Georgia Knight Architects, Inc.
• New medical gas and headwall delivery systems
• All new finishes• Increased number of patient beds• Relocation of clerk stations to increase
control and visibility of visitors• 7,800 total square feet
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CLEARVIEW REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTERMonroe, Georgia Helman Hurley Charvat Peacock / Architects, Inc.
• Fifty bed replacement hospital• Four operating rooms• Labor and delivery rooms• C-section room• Radiology• Pharmacy• Dietary• Cafe• Central sterile area• Clinical laboratories• Emergency Department• Administrative areas• Central energy plant• 100,000 square feet
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ICU RENOVATIONEmory University Hospital MidtownAtlanta, Georgia FreemanWhite, Inc.
• Twelve bed ICU• Patient transport bridge• Multiple camera video matrix monitoring
system• Audio-visual master control room• Health care communications systems• High definition video surveillance of each
patient• Patient monitoring theatre• 12,000 square feet
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EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT AND LABORATORY RENOVATIONEmory University HospitalAtlanta, Georgia FreemanWhite, Inc.
• Expands facility from twenty-one to thirty-six treatment rooms
• CT Scan• Radiology room• 10,000 square foot cytogenetics laboratory• 30,000 total square feet
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ADDITIONS AND RENOVATIONSNorth Fulton Regional HospitalRoswell, Georgia Harvard Jolly, Inc.
• Operating room suite• Food service and dining facilities• Intensive Care Unit• Emergency Department• Acute care patient beds• Central plant• 104,100 total square feet
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MIRIAM & HUGH NUNNALLY MATERNITY CARE CENTERSoutheast Georgia Health SystemBrunswick, Georgia HKS, Inc.
• Renovation and addition• Six LDRP rooms• Level 2 nursery• 34,600 square feet
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MAYO CLINIC JACKSONVILLEJacksonville, Florida
• Ninety-two bed patient tower expansion 110,000 square feet
• Replacement of air-cooled chillers serving data center and laundry facilities
• Bundy Café renovation and expansion 12,000 square feet
• Campus Building Management System master plan
• Chapel lighting design• Chilled water systems study• Central plant controls commissioning• Emergency power supply and distribution
systems study• Clinical laboratory renovation
20,000 square feet• Family Medicine/Community Internal Medicine/
Women’s Health Center 95,000 square feet
• Davis Building ENT Clinic renovation 7,400 square feet
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PATIENT TOWER EXPANSION Mayo Clinic JacksonvilleJacksonville, FloridaPerkins + Will
• Expansion of a 6 story hospital tower• Two patient floors• 104 bed addition• Replacement of building automation system • Phased construction • Structured cabling • Nurse call/Code Blue• Television cable system• Patient entertainment and interactive TV• Public address and music system • 110,000 square feet
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THE LENNAR FOUNDATION MEDICAL CENTERUniversity of Miami Miami, Florida Perkins+Will
• Four stories• Eight operating rooms• Two catheterization laboratories• Intervention and chemotherapy areas• Two IR suites• Two MRI suites • Two CT scans• One PET scan• One Spec CT scan• Urgent care clinic• Student health clinic• 4,000 ton campus chilled water plant• 215,000 total square feet
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UF HEALTH AT JACKSONVILLEJacksonville, Florida
• More than sixty projects over twenty years• Morgue renovation• Admissions and Finance Office renovation• Ambulatory Surgery Center revisions• Atrium sound system and acoustical treatment• Clinical center steam boiler replacement• Cardiology department renovation• ENT Clinic renovation• Cardiac care unit• Chilled water analysis • 3 MW cogen plant feasibility study• MRI addition• OB/GYN Department renovation• Relocation of Ophthalmology Department• Fifth Floor CV Stepdown Unit • Dining and serving area renovations • Emergency equipment replacement• Addition of sprinkler systems in the North Pavilion and Clinical Center• Relocation of central utility plant serving I and II buildings • 850,000 total square feet
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CELEBRATION HEALTHCelebration, Florida NBBJ
• Acute care facility for Florida Hospital and Disney Development
• Eighty bed patient wing• 85,000 square foot fitness/rehab center• Intervention center• Medical office building• Women’s center• Clinical laboratory and diagnostic imaging • Emergency Department• Morgue• 375,000 total square feet
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LEVINE CHILDREN’S HOSPITALCarolina’s Medical CenterCharlotte, North Carolina Karlsberger Companies
• 230 beds• Pediatric intensive care beds• Neonatal intensive care nursery beds• Neonatal progressive care nursery beds• Thirteen licensed pediatric rehabilitation
beds• Twenty day hospital beds• Twelve observation beds• Nurse call system• Lighting of public areas, patient rooms, and
façade• Access control of video surveillance systems• 234,600 total square feet
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DUKE INTEGRATIVE MEDICINEDuke University Medical CenterDurham, North Carolina Duda/Paine Architects, LLP
• Designed solely for the combined practice of alternative treatments and conventional medicine
• Sitting room• Library• Indoor and outdoor meditation spaces• Conference and work shop spaces• Fitness facilities• LEED Certified certification• 27,000 total square feet
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DUKE EYE CENTER CLINICAL PAVILIONDuke University Medical CenterDurham, North Carolina Hellmuth, Obata + Kassabaum, Inc.
• 46,800 square feet of shell space for future clinics
• 19,950 square feet of renovations in the Wadsworth Building
• New Hudson Building• Centralized specialty areas• Pursuing LEED Silver certification• 186,350 total square feet
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HOSPITAL AND MENTAL HEALTH FACILITYCentral PrisonRaleigh, North Carolina SchenkelShultz Architecture, Inc.
• 120 bed hospital• Stand alone central energy plant• Operating rooms• Exam and treatment rooms• Laboratories• Telemedicine • Offices • Classrooms• 174,000 square feet
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