A Net-Zero Ready Health Center
Syracuse Community Health’s goal was to expand their capability and services within their community on the south side of Syracuse, NY. The facility provides a welcoming, flexible, and progressive new facility that provides easily accessible care to the local community.
Integrative Care Delivery Model
This project includes site development and a new 2-story, approx. 56,000 square foot Medical Office Building that provides outpatient services to the community.
The building design utilizes an Integrative Care Delivery Model which focuses on fostering patient centered care, operational flexibility/efficiency and staff collaboration.
With this approach, patients may be seen by several different specialists from the comfort of one room. The various departments are organized into ‘pods’ where exam and support spaces can be flexibly shared as demand and use changes throughout the day. The layout of the building is efficient, however adaptable to the ever-changing needs of healthcare.
Highly energy efficient and carbon neutral
The project is highly energy efficient, and carbon neutral, with robust thermal envelope and a closed loop hybrid geothermal system including 40 vertical wells. The design team utilized an integrative design process employing whole building energy modeling to arrive at the most efficient envelope and systems within the project budget.
