Office Buildings

Spring Valley Hospital Medical Office Building, Las Vegas, NV

The Valley Health System is currently constructing a new, acute care hospital to better serve the rapidly growing communities located in the southwest Las Vegas valley. For this fast-track project, the eSteel process was used to provide structural engineering, detailing, fabrication and erection for both the structural and miscellaneous stell packages for the 60,000 s.f. medical office building. The wo facilities are linked via a one-story, enclosed walkway. The project was on a fast-trck design scheduled in order to open aat the same time as the hospital . Spring Valley Hospital Medical Center will be the fourth hospital within The Valley Health System.

National Security Sciences Building (NSSB), Los Alamos National Laboratories, New Mexico

This 275,000 square foot, seven story tower and adjacent parking structure are the latest developments in Los Alamos National Laboratory Technical Area 3 (TA-3). The tower replaces an existing 45 year old administrative structure whose organization and infrastructure can no longer support the mission of nuclear stockpile safety and the reduction of the threat from weapons of mass destruction.

The Performance Category 2 (PC-2) tower will provide office and research space for seven hundred employees engaged in theoretical and applied physics, computational sciences, and the laboratory senior management and program administration functions. It will also contain a Lecture Hall with 600 seats, which will be the primary large meeting space for both classified and unclassified discussions. The basement of the tower will house the historical archives of the laboratory, along with volumes of documents and data. The four story parking structure is sited on a former parking lot site at the entrance to TA-3, and will provide over 600 spaces, including those for electric cars and handicapped spaces.

For this fast-track project, CG is providing structural design and engineering for both the structural and miscellaneous steel packages. Chavez-Grieves also performs as the design team project manager for the builder Hensel Phelps, and is also the structural engineering firm for both the tower as well as the parking structure. Design activities commenced in August of 2003, with construction anticipated to start in February of 2004. Construction completion is anticipated for mid-summer of 2005, and total construction cost is $65 million.

State of New Mexico Crime Laboratory, Albuquerque, NM

The State's Laboratory Services Building, a $47.8 million project, will be located on the University of New Mexico campus in Albuquerque. The new facility consolidates five separate State agencies: The New Mexico Department of Health Scientific Laboratory Division, NM Department of Public Safety Crime Laboratory Bureau, NM Office of the Medical Investigator, NM Department of Agriculture Veterinary Diagnostics Services, and the University of New Mexico Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases. Common areas will include lobby, classroom and conference room areas that will be shared by various building agencies. On-site parking will allow for 204 staff, 12 fleet vehicles, and 20 visitors.

Los Alamos National Laboratories (NNSB)