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UNC Cancer Hospital and Physician's Office Building
Client
UNC Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
PROJECT
UNC Cancer Hospital and Physician's Office Building
Eight-story hospital and a five-story physician’s office totaling 418,000 square feet of space.
Cost
$200 million
DISCIPLINES
Special Inspections
The structural system consisted of multiple cast-in-place concrete floor systems accommodating the various loading and floor-to-floor height requirements. They include flat plate and wide shallow concrete beams. The lateral system is reinforced concrete shear walls. The foundations included spread footings, mat, and mini piles.
The office building is a composite steel structure with braced frames for lateral. The foundations are conventional spread footings. A 400-foot-long curved pedestrian bridge connects the medical office building and new hospital to an existing parking deck. The bridge design uses structural steel trusses and a composite steel floor deck on pile foundations.
Members of Falcon provided special inspections for this project. The eight-story hospital building presented numerous challenges not normally encountered in a steel frame building. Aside from the formidable size of the building, the special inspections team also had to accommodate specific requirements associated with inspecting the cast-in-place elements of the project.
*Staff at Falcon performed some services on this project while with a previous employer.
