Craig Hospital
Family Housing Building
Englewood, Colorado
Date: 2002
Cost: $9,500,000
Area: 57,000 GSF
This project consisted of a new stand-alone 40-unit apartment building and
landscape park area. The apartments are made available from the Hospital to
spinal cord injury patient and family members who need a temporary place to
reside in while accessing and receiving long-term physical therapy and learning
home living skills. Each apartment was designed to improve the quality of life
for the patient and their families during their stay by making it user-friendly
and accessible for patients with spinal cord injuries.
General tempered make-up air was provided to each apartment through a central
rooftop hot water pre-heat coil and DX cooling unit. Public areas and meeting
facilities were provided with individual zone VAV air terminal and reheat
coil. All apartments were provided with separate individual dedicated bathroom
exhaust and residential kitchen hood stove top exhaust fan. The switches
to operate the stove top exhaust fan, garbage disposal, and kitchen task
lighting are located on the front edge of the counter for handicap accessibility.
Each apartment is provided with a telephone/data outlet for the resident’s
computer and CCTV. There are individually switched wall mounted lights on
each side of the bed. The switches and convenience receptacles are located
in the headwall of the bed. Photoelectric detectors, strobes, combination
horn/strobes and manual pull stations are located in all common areas, storage
rooms and equipment rooms. A single station smoke detector is located in
the sleeping area and a horn/strobe in each apartment. Duct detectors are
located at each fire/smoke damper location.
