$3,748,127 - McLeod Tower Seismic Retrofit Cost Estimate - The Rest Of The Story
Copies of the oversized and color photograph pages of the SB1953 Seismic Evaluation of Palomar Medical Center (Phase Report 1A), dated October 25, 1999, were made available by PPH on Thursday afternoon, November 3, 2005. This constitutes the rest of the report and is 104 pages long. The file is large (10 MB) and is available at the following link:
http://civics.robroy.cc/PMC-SeismicEval10-25-99cont.pdf
The report was prepared by structural engineers and details the improvements needed to the McLeod tower to allow its structural rating to be increased to an SPC-2 rating. An SPC-2 rating allows use of the McLeod tower as an acute care facility through 2030. The principal structural upgrade is the construction of 12" thick concrete shear walls and supporting foundations at the north end of the building. From a recent visit to the McLeod tower, it appears that the foundation would be located outside of the existing shell of the building's first floor. The cost estimate for this structural upgrade to the McLeod tower was $2.6 million. This is covered in the first part of the Seismic Evaluation report (2 MB) available at the following link:
http://civics.robroy.cc/PMC-SeismicEval10-25-99partial.pdf
The report also outlines improvements needed to increase the tower's nonstructural rating to NPC-3 on certain floors. The cost estimates for these improvements were amazingly low.
Note that PPH is now making major changes to the imaging department on the third floor of the McLeod tower to accommodate more modern MRI equipment. With proper management, increasing that floor's nonstructural rating to SPC-3 should be part of that upgrade.
The light fixtures and the partitions in the McLeod tower need additional support and braces to comply with an Article 10 requirement. The estimated cost for this work to the McLeod tower was about $1 million.
Did PPH exaggerate the seismic retrofit problem at Palomar Medical Center during the campaign for Proposition BB? You decide:
http://www.pph.org/mpeg/spokesperson.wmv.
More dire messages can be found at: http://www.pph.org/body.cfm?id=237
(Note: PPH has no "hospitals built over 50 years ago".)
http://civics.robroy.cc/PMC-SeismicEval10-25-99cont.pdf
The report was prepared by structural engineers and details the improvements needed to the McLeod tower to allow its structural rating to be increased to an SPC-2 rating. An SPC-2 rating allows use of the McLeod tower as an acute care facility through 2030. The principal structural upgrade is the construction of 12" thick concrete shear walls and supporting foundations at the north end of the building. From a recent visit to the McLeod tower, it appears that the foundation would be located outside of the existing shell of the building's first floor. The cost estimate for this structural upgrade to the McLeod tower was $2.6 million. This is covered in the first part of the Seismic Evaluation report (2 MB) available at the following link:
http://civics.robroy.cc/PMC-SeismicEval10-25-99partial.pdf
The report also outlines improvements needed to increase the tower's nonstructural rating to NPC-3 on certain floors. The cost estimates for these improvements were amazingly low.
Note that PPH is now making major changes to the imaging department on the third floor of the McLeod tower to accommodate more modern MRI equipment. With proper management, increasing that floor's nonstructural rating to SPC-3 should be part of that upgrade.
The light fixtures and the partitions in the McLeod tower need additional support and braces to comply with an Article 10 requirement. The estimated cost for this work to the McLeod tower was about $1 million.
Did PPH exaggerate the seismic retrofit problem at Palomar Medical Center during the campaign for Proposition BB? You decide:
http://www.pph.org/mpeg/spokesperson.wmv.
More dire messages can be found at: http://www.pph.org/body.cfm?id=237
(Note: PPH has no "hospitals built over 50 years ago".)
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