NON-ACUTE COVID-19 SURGE FACILITY

East Orange General Hospital

Location: East Orange, NJ
Size: 80,000 square feet
Project Type: Renovation

We were asked to assemble a comprehensive Design/Build + Project Management + Safety Team in 5 days to be ready to convert a closed and partially abandoned office building outside East Orange General Hospital into a 250-Bed Non-Acute Covid-19 Surge Patient Care Facility in 14 days from Notice to Proceed.

The team was required to rapidly assess conditions of the building, available space for 250 beds and program, systems and life safety status, and determine code compliance to achieve program goals with available materials, labor, trade talent, equipment and existing systems and complete the renovation in 14 days from Notice to Proceed.

We accomplished a rapid assessment of systems, infrastructure and assets within the building by each team member on Day One; Jeffrey Berman Architect quickly formulated the program, work scopes and critical path schedules based on available materials, parts and equipment; made rapid decisions, and obtained approvals and support from owners/authorities having Jurisdiction to maintain schedule; review submittals, work in place and changes due to field conditions by all team members; maintained continuous onsite presence of all principals; structured communication through twice daily project team meetings to keep the process nimble and moving forward at the seemingly impossible pace required.

The team created 250 patient bed spaces for non-acute COVID-19 patients; replaced/restored 123 sinks, 70 toilets, and 24 showers; created/restored 13 nurse stations; Installed 30 miles of electrical cable and 30,000 sf of flooring; constructed 420 linear feet of 6’-high partition walls; polished and sealed 80,000 sf of flooring; worked 24,000 hours with ZERO lost time and ZERO recordable incidents with NO workers diagnosed with Covid-19 and on time and on budget.