The $46-million emergency department expansion and renovation would have been challenging under the best of circumstances. By spring 2020, the team was well along on the project as Boston’s busiest emergency department went about its business treating some 60,000 patients a year. Then COVID-19 hit.

在波士顿非必要的建筑停工之后，该团队和医院获得了继续进行该项目的许可，该项目涉及建造25,000平方英尺的增加，然后对现有急诊室进行翻新。除挑战外，部门的扩展是在医院放射科的顶部，CT扫描和MRI机器以24/7的时间表进行测试。

“We were at the midpoint of the project when the pandemic hit,” said Bryan Northrop, head of Skanska’s building operations in Boston. “Like everybody else there was an initial pause.”

医院和承包商与主要的团队分包商和建筑工会挤在一起，制定了向城市展示的计划。承包商和医院传染病专家制定了一系列协议，旨在在大流行期间确保工人和员工的安全。其中包括全职筛选器，温度监测以及医院提供的口罩，所有新概念在大流行开始时。

Photo by Chuck Choi, Courtesy of Skanska USA Building Co.

该医院还确保该项目的工人获得了与医院工作人员相同的COVID-19疫苗的访问，这是在分配刚刚开始增加且剂量极为有限的时候这是一个重要的一步。一位法官喜欢该医院决定与建筑团队合作的决定。法官还指出，该项目损失了零可记录的时间。法官说：“安全记录很好。”“他们与波士顿市合作制定了整洁的安全计划。”

去内脏后紧急部门现有的space—doctors and nurses had transitioned to the new, 25,000-sq-ft space last December—the team found the existing slab was as much as 3 in. higher than expected in some places. Left as is, that disparity would have interfered with the closing of sliding glass doors planned for the patient rooms.

承包商带来了一名结构顾问，该顾问对地板进行了调查，并将其分解为网格。一种解决方案是倒入混凝土以均匀地板，但团队担心增加重量。最终，它部署了一种称为SuperCap的较轻，自重的产品，可以安装在较高和较低的位置中。

Photo by Chuck Choi, Courtesy of Skanska USA Building Co.

With space at a premium inside the building, the decision was made to place two electric infrastructure boxes on the roof, with all associated gear and equipment. That required a need for cranes to be lowered in prebuilt sections of the various systems onto the roof, impacting traffic in a busy section of Boston near a residential area. “To get these two structures … on the roof, with all the associated gear and wiring, was a lot of work,” said Jon Wine, project executive at electrical subcontractor Sullivan and McLaughlin Cos.

为了加快流程的速度，团队有电气系统预制站点的部分。此外，它在医院入口附近发现了一块可放置起重机的物业，避免在街上放置。

Skanska的Northrop说：“这消除了对道路的需求。”