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CASE STUDY

FOUNTAIN VALLEY REGIONAL HOSPITAL/CANCER CENTER
FOUNTAIN VALLEY, CALIFORNIA
AN AESTHETIC UPGRADE – ALL FLOORS

The Fountain Valley Regional Hospital/Cancer Center, located east side of the hospital main floor, at 11190 Warner Ave., Fountain Valley, California, is a four-story Medical building that consists of a Center for Breast Care, an Infusion Therapy, an American Cancer Society, an Imaging Center, an Outpatient Surgical Center, a Pre-Cancer Admitting Center, and Medical Offices.
The Cancer Center built in 1996 to provide health care solutions for short stay and outpatient to the residents of the surrounding communities in Orange County. On April 2010, this 75,000 square foot Cancer Treatment Center was first projected for an Aesthetic Upgrade – (All Floors.)

The design challenges included:

-Creating a modern yet warm and comforting atmosphere throughout the facility with good air quality.
-Meeting code with performance products that also satisfy aesthetic objectives.
-Choosing products that stay within budget parameters on initial installation, and provide optimum life cycle costing.
-Constructing a new facility floors that meet design, performance and budget requirements.

-Installing floors that are easy and cost effective to maintain -typical clinical colors or patterns, “plastic-looking,” for durability and to withstand bodily fluid.

Because the center really focused on being a “healthy” building, low-emitting products were used throughout –for walls, carpet, and vinyl, etc.
To exclude any substances that might aggravate a patient’s health, the selection of building materials and installation method optimized indoor air quality and environment responsibility. Therefore, material and product selections–flooring, paint, adhesives, wall panels-eliminated use of formaldehyde and minimized VOC.
Much of the Cancer Center’s flooring was linoleum –a rapidly renewable product, it was applied with low-VOC adhesive. The interface carpeting selected was low-VOC comprised of 42 percent recycled material and also installed using low-VOC adhesive.

Product Specifications:

Walls - First & Second floor: Vinyl Wall Coverings made of recycled content by Armstrong with heat welds for aseptic seams. Low toxic finishes.

Walls – Third & Fourth floor: Paints by Benjamin Moore, and Dunn Edwards with low sheen or Satin. Durable, premium quality, fast-curing paints and stains were used that have low VOC content, no formaldehyde, ammonia, crystalline silica or ethylene glycol.

Flooring – First–Third floors: Terrazzo Linoleum sheet by Armstrong – A combination of resilience, aesthetic, durability, maintainability and value. High performing and easy-to-maintain, made from renewable raw materials and contains recycled content.

Flooring – Fourth floor: Commercial Carpet by Patcraft PDQ – Reusable recycled carpet and organic wool.

Elevator flooring: Vinyl tile by Armstrong – Offer high-end visuals with the cost and installation benefits of contemporary resilient flooring.

Elevator cabs: Commercial Laminate panels by Armstrong –Contemporary look, low-VOC adhesive, and durable.

Security desk: Commercial Laminate by Armstrong – Combine the warm look and feel of hardwood with affordability, durability and easy maintenance.

Lighting fixtures – First & Second floor: Recessed grid type 2 x 4 MOBI – 120 Volt – Daylight control for energy conservation.

Lighting fixtures – Third & Fourth floor: Sylvania T–8 – 4’, 32 Watt, F – 32/741/ECO - Energy efficient.

First floor existing base: Granite – Natural stone.

As the results, major flooring materials used were carpet and linoleum, both natural and biodegradable products. Fabric selection focused on recycled and compostable materials. All materials were selected to be easily maintained with natural cleaning products in order to ensure a high level of indoor air quality. Many of the criteria for achieving the objectives were elements of the planning and building process. For instance, locally made materials were used whenever possible to reduce transportation, and more than 70 percent of the construction materials used can be later recycled. Additionally, many processes were utilized during construction to ensure a healthy building and good air quality, including capping all unfinished ducts during the building process, vacuuming floor tracks before installing wall covering and “flushing” the building for three days before re-occupancy.

Overall, this project has achieved the goal of:

- Improving indoor air quality.
- Meeting the durability needs of a round-the-clock health care facility.
- Enhancing human, environmental and economic performance.
- Providing the functional benefits of contemporary flooring surfaces ranging from the
Terrazzo Linoleum on the first thru third floor to Carpet on the fourth floor and
vinyl/linoleum sheet/tile in the elevator flooring and security desk with aesthetic appeal
of rich, saturated colors.
- Executing the project within budget.

Fountain Valley Cancer Treatment Center, “where technology meets compassion under clean environment,” is a place that combines world-class medical care with a singular focus on patient support to give clients the motivation to go through the difficult experience of radiation and chemotherapy treatments.

Bibliography:
armstrong.com
homedepot.com
Fountain Valley Regional Hospital Administration Office



Posted by Thanh Nguyen