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Springmoor Life Care Retirement Community
Location:
Raleigh, NC
Size:
24,000 SF
Services:
Plumbing, Mechanical, and Electrical Designs
Description:
Plumbing, mechanical and electrical engineering for a 24,000 SF major renovation and building footprint addition to incorporate new high-end amenities for an existing multi-building assisted living facility. Amenities additions include a new indoor pool and spa, a new movement room and exercise room, new commercial kitchen, common spaces, theater, bathroom and shower facilities, beauty parlor, wellness offices / therapy rooms and back-of-house spaces. The project overcame significant challenges with adding these facilities into previously ordinary resident and common space not originally designed to house such specialty areas, coupled with the new building addition that seamlessly integrated into the existing facility.
Significant design considerations included:
Raleigh, NC
Size:
24,000 SF
Services:
Plumbing, Mechanical, and Electrical Designs
Description:
Plumbing, mechanical and electrical engineering for a 24,000 SF major renovation and building footprint addition to incorporate new high-end amenities for an existing multi-building assisted living facility. Amenities additions include a new indoor pool and spa, a new movement room and exercise room, new commercial kitchen, common spaces, theater, bathroom and shower facilities, beauty parlor, wellness offices / therapy rooms and back-of-house spaces. The project overcame significant challenges with adding these facilities into previously ordinary resident and common space not originally designed to house such specialty areas, coupled with the new building addition that seamlessly integrated into the existing facility.
Significant design considerations included:
- Specialty lighting and controls.
- Special and specific power requirements for equipment, resident needs and facilities.
- Incorporating a kitchen and an indoor pool and spa with equipment room into a facility in such a way as to provide desired comfort and continuity while addressing the specialty requirements of those areas.
- Properly conditioning and exhausting the new facilities not originally designed for the density of high air-change, ventilation and heat loading considerations associated with a commercial kitchen, indoor pool, etc.
- Meeting strict code requirements for spaces of this nature while preserving the desired home-like residential feel.