Local architecture firm selected to lead in the development of over $300,000,000 in out-of-state medical facility projects
architecture+, located in Troy, New York, has recently been selected to provide programming, planning and design services for five new free-standing hospital projects at medical facilities in Indiana, Massachusetts and Tennessee. All facilities serve clients/patients with developmental disabilities and behavioral or psychiatric disorders.
A programming and planning study for two state-of-the-art care and treatment facilities in Indiana is nearly complete. The new facilities, to be located in Fort Wayne and Indianapolis, will serve approximately 300 clients/patients. The study was completed in partnership with Hellmuth, Obata + Kassabaum (HOK) of St. Louis. The resulting hospitals, which will be designed by architecture+ and HOK in a partnership with Browning Day Mullins Dierdorf Architects and Scholer Architects, have a projected construction value of $119,000,000.
architecture+, in association with Ellenzweig Associates of Cambridge, Massachusetts, has been selected to program, plan and design a new state-operated psychiatric hospital to be located in Central Massachusetts. The study for the new facility, with 320 beds, is valued at $1.2 million. The estimated cost of the resulting building, subject to legislative and gubernatorial approval, is in excess of $100,000,000.
In Tennessee, architecture+, working with a consortium of Tennessee architects, has been asked to take the leadership role in the programming and planning of two new state hospitals to be located in Bolivar and Knoxville. The total estimated value of these projects is nearly $90,000,000. The following Tennessee firms have formed a joint venture for the purpose of developing these projects: Looney Ricks Kiss, Hnedak Bobo Group, Lindsay & Maples, Architects, Inc., and Cockrill Design & Planning, Inc.
Francis Murdock Pitts, President of architecture+, is on the forefront of design for special populations and was recently elected President of the American College of Healthcare Architects (ACHA).
"This is an exciting time to be designing facilities to treat people with developmental disabilities and mental illness" says Pitts. "Recent advances are allowing medical researchers to address the biological components of mental illness to the extent that new facilities must be designed to accommodate both the current and the anticipated treatment regimes."
architecture+ is among the nation’s largest healthcare design firms and is particularly noted for its work on behalf of populations with special needs such as the mentally ill.