The University of Southern California Norris Healthcare Center (NHC), part of the Keck School of Medicine, is a major regional and national resource for cancer research, treatment, prevention and education.
NHC is building a new six-story consultation center in an effort to expand its outpatient cancer care services. The 112,000-sq.-ft. OSHPD 3 (with OSHPD 1 components) clinical building will be comprised of six levels above grade and a lower level with six outpatient surgery and procedure rooms, imaging, radiation, oncology, infusion, pharmacy and laboratory. The facility will also house a cutting-edge multiple sclerosis (MS) clinic and urology services.
This technical project presents many challenges, including tight jobsite constraints and an owner-initiated full building reprogram, which affected every floor and resulted in intensive reprogramming costs, schedule resequencing, and extensive BIM and value engineering efforts. Seven permit packages (including OSHPD 1) are required for the building's pneumatic tube system, which is used for sample transport and will extend to six other existing campus buildings.