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Medical Facilities

On Lok Larkin Senior Living, San Francisco, CA

MBH Architects

Analysis of environmental and HVAC noise impacting a 30+ unit senior housing and community center building which overlooks a busy S.F. intersection. The facility includes dental and hospital services for the residents.

Kaiser Santa Clara Medical Center, Santa Clara, CA

Anshen + Allen

Acoustical design of new medical center with two medical office buildings, a 300-bed hospital and a central plant. Issues include the impact of the central plant on neighbors, sound isolation between birthing suites, exam rooms, and hospital rooms, control of noise transference between nursing stations and hospital beds.

Kaiser Medical Office Building, Geary Street Campus, San Francisco, CA

Anshen + Allen

Acoustical consulting for a multi-story medical office building located in downtown San Francisco. Concerns focused on transfer of noise from the parking structure into the adjacent facility.

Kaiser Santa Theresa Medical Center, San Jose, CA

Kaplan/McLaughlin/Diaz

Acoustical consulting for a 3 story, 105,000 square foot facility. Issues included sound isolation between exam rooms and offices, and impact of mechanical noise from rooftop air handlers on adjacent exam areas. Reviewed environmental noise from air handlers.

Kaiser Medical Office Building III, Pleasanton, CA

MBT Architecture

Review and recommendations of sound isolation and mechanical noise and vibration control. The project was canceled during initial design due to major scope changes.

Edwards Air Force Base - Aeromedical Services Clinic, Edwards AFB, CA

Coleman Caskey Architects

HVAC noise control evaluation in relation to partition sound isolation capabilities.

Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital, Santa Rosa, CA

Thistlethwaite Architectural Group

Vibration isolation review for a 9,000 lb. air handler located directly above the MRI facility.

Santa Clara Valley Medical Center, Santa Clara, CA

Anshen + Allen

Calculated sound attenuation properties of louvres for mechanical area to determine optimum sound isolation and noise control.

John Muir Hospital, Walnut Creek, CA

Thistlethwaite Architectural Group

Reviewed mechanical systems and rooftop HVAC unit to make recommendations on ways to isolate the noise form the Angiography laboratory below.

John Muir Hospital - Birthing Center, Walnut Creek, CA

Thistlethwaite Architectural Group

Recommendations to improve acoustical isolation between nurses' station and birthing rooms. Noise sources included ice machines, doctor's dictation center, printers, and overall nursing station layout.

Incyte Pharmaceutical, Palo Alto, CA

Incyte Pharmaceutical

Acoustics and audiovisual design for the new Headquarters facility.

East Valley Health Complex, San Jose, CA

Anderson-Brule Architects

Reviewed noise levels of rooftop HVAC units for a new health care complex to verify noise levels meet local ordinances.

Pacific Hearing Services, Los Altos, CA

Ambiance Associates

Interior/exterior sound isolation for a clinic with offices and audiology treatment rooms which needed to have extremely low background noise levels.

Medical Foundation, Palo Alto, CA

Stoecker & Northway Architects

Acoustical design of the south satellite medical offices. Issues included control of atrium noise, sound isolation between exam rooms and offices, mechanical noise and vibration control, plus mitigating rooftop air handler noise from affecting the adjacent residential area.

Athena Neurosciences, South San Francisco, CA

Athena Neurosciences

Audiovisual design for the Board Room will include rear video projection, touch panel controls, teleconferencing, and an audio system. The Video Conferencing Room will have computer interface capabilities, 2 monitors, and document cameras. The Presentation Room will use an audio system, teleconferencing front video projection, touch panel controls, and computer inputs. Design recommendations were also provided for 9 additional smaller conference rooms.

Alta Bates Medical Center, Palo Alto, CA

Anshen + Allen

Developed A/V programming document for the proposed conference/training facility. The building would have 2 large divisible conference rooms and 4 smaller separate conference rooms. The 6 video monitors in the divisible rooms would be linked together to display the image from one VCR. This system would include an audio archive, microphone mixing, and speech reinforcement that can be routed within the room as the room combination changes.

Providence Hospital, Anchorage, AK

Sisters of Providence

Design of a sound masking system and sound isolation details. The Anchorage Women's Clinic at the hospital had been having problems with speech privacy between the offices and the exam rooms.

Washington Hospital West, Fremont, CA

Kaplan/McLaughlin/Diaz

Acoustic measurements and recommendations to control cardio-vascular treadmill noise from impacting exam facilities on the floor below.

UCSF Pediatrics ICU, San Francisco, CA

Cammisa and Wipf

Design of individual listening systems for each bed within the ICU system, intended to help relax the patient and promote the healing process.

UCSF - UCH Reuse/Demolition Investigation, San Francisco, CA

MBT Architecture

Recommended methods to control potential construction noise around the Parnassus campus during a seismic retrofitting of the Hospital Building's infrastructure.

Stanford University - Medical Center Genetics Laboratory, Stanford, CA

Anshen + Allen

Developed mechanical noise and vibration control details for the renovation of this department in the Alway Building. Identified acoustically critical spaces such as the Genetics Library and Electron Microscope rooms, and provided construction administration.

Stanford University - Medical School Psychiatric Facility, Stanford, CA

Stanford University

Control of noise isolation between exam room and offices; acoustical isolation of Sleet Center from exterior/interior noise.

Riley Outpatient Center - Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN

Kaplan/McLaughlin/Diaz

Room acoustics and mechanical noise control for a 50-seat classroom, plus audiovisual system infrastructure design for a 216-seat auditorium and surrounding conference rooms. Sound isolation advice was provided to insulate the educational center from noise created by a fast food restaurant located one floor above.

Alzheimer's Services of the East Bay, Berkeley, CA

Alzheimer's Services of the East Bay

Selected acoustical wall finishes in a care facility for patients with mid to late stage dementia.