Interventional Radiology CT Suite

Our team carefully reviewed previous neighboring projects as well as the master plan for the area and made sure our project fit appropriately into the context of the department’s long-term vision. We also partnered directly with end users to proactively address evolving project requirements.

The user groups identified lessons learned, like heating and humidity controls, communications system, gas tanks transportation from their existing IR suite that were the driving points for the design. Since we were working in an older building, we also interviewed the Inspector of Record to understand unusual conditions that were encountered during construction and design of the first IR CT suite.

There were some complicated existing conditions that needed careful investigation and unusual fire rated construction design solutions:

• New lead shielding was required since the space being remodeled was not an imaging room previously.
• The capacity of the existing floor structure and roof structure were studied as soon as the equipment was confirmed to determine if the structure was adequate or required reinforcement.
• The house HVAC system was also reviewed, and it was confirmed that supplemental mechanical units were required as part of the project. We added a dedicated Air Handler unit to serve both the existing and the new IR CT suites to protect the procedure rooms from excessive heat and we added a humidifier to work in tandem with the cooling system.