Craig Hospital
Family Housing
New Construction
Englewood, Colorado
Date: 2002
Cost: $9,500,000
Area: 57,000 GSF
Photograph courtesy of Craig Hospital
SBEC is the Mechanical and Electrical Engineer of Record for this new
4-story apartment-style facility designed with 34 accessible efficiency units. The apartments are provided for the extended stay of family members of spinal cord or brain injury patients. Building also includes a hotel-like lobby landscape park area, a small park, courtyard area, outdoor BBQ and water fountain area, as well as an indoor activity room and laundromat facility.
SBEC’s mechanical and electrical scope consisted of the following:
Modular high-efficiency 95%+ condensing hot water boilers and an air-cooled water chiller serves four-pipe fan coil units in each apartment;
General tempered make-up air provided to each apartment through a central rooftop hot water pre-heat coil and DX cooling unit;
Public areas and meeting facilities provided with individual zone VAV air terminal and reheat coil;
Separate individual dedicated bathroom exhaust and residential kitchen hood stove top exhaust fan;
Class III standpipe and full coverage automatic sprinkler fire protection system;
1,600 Amp Main Distribution Center “MDC” feeds the mechanical equipment and a 1,200 Amp bus riser to distribute the power to each floor;
112kVA transformer and 120/208V, 400A panel, fed from the bus riser, located on each floor;
120/240V panel, fed from the 400A panel located in each apartment;
Stacked electrical rooms and IT closets;
Photoelectric detectors, strobes, combination horn/strobes and manual pull stations located in all common areas, storage rooms and equipment rooms;
Single station smoke detector in the sleeping area and a horn/strobe in each apartment;
Duct detectors located at each fire/smoke damper location; and
Each apartment provided with a telephone/data outlet for the resident’s computer and CCTV.
