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St. Joseph's Hospital Health Center, Syracuse, NY

Master planning for St. Joseph's Hospital Health Center with multiple commissions over the past 15 years. 
Phase One - Approximate site cost of $750,000.

• Improvements support the new parking garage and medical office building in a congested urban setting with severe topographic limitations.
• Entry courtyard, retaining walls, streetscape improvements, plantings, and storm water management plan for the site plan approval from the City of Syracuse.
• Site improvements to support the new hospital lobby and pedestrian sky bridge linking the Medical Office Center to the hospital building.
• Prepared all documents necessary to obtain site plan approval including encroachment maps, storm water management study and agency approvals.
• The project included the development of temporary wayfinding signage due to a street closure, reconfiguration of the street alignment to create a new lobby drop-off and on-street parking plan.
• Site improvements included the use of brick pavers, site furniture, plantings, memorial gardens, sculpture locations and accent lighting.
• Phase One also included the College of Nursing Memorial Gardens and Way-Finding Signage, and was completed in 2008.

• Approximate site costs of $150,000.
• Prepared a master plan and contract documents for a memorial garden and outdoor public space for the College of Nursing.
• The garden focal element included the relocation of the St. Joseph statue, brick pavers, lighting, perennial plant beds, bench seating and streetscape improvements, the memorial garden offers a quiet respite for hospital visitors and staff.

Way-Finding Signage

• $100,000 approximate site construction costs for the development and implementation of four ground-base signs and related site improvements, which distinguish the hospital campus neighborhood.

Phase Two - Approximate site costs of $5.3 million for two major capital projects including Loading Dock Building, Emergency Services Building and site infrastructure improvements.

• Site work for new buildings, ambulance dock, parking, retaining walls, service docks and phasing coordination with Hospital's selected Construction Manager.
• Design Development drawings for site plan approval and construction documents for implementation.
• Contract Documents included innovative grading and drainage solutions on steep, heavily developed urban site.
• Development of a healing garden park for patients, visitors and staff.
• Provide new sidewalks, tree plantings and streetscape edge around the hospital campus to improve the neighborhood unification.
• LEED Silver documentation.
• Storm water management including rain garden facility and underground storm water detention, permeable pavement and native plantings.
• Prepared graphic presentation material for public relations.
• Emergency Services Building was completed in 2012; Phase Two in its entirety is scheduled for completion in 2014.