Design - Construct Ambulance Garage Design Iowa City

The scope of work for this project shall include but not be limited to the design services for project 636-807, Construct Ambulance Garage for the Iowa City VA Health Care System. This project will replace the former ambulance garage that was demolished in 2015 with the new emergency department construction, adding approximately 1500 square feet to west side of Building 1. The ambulance bay was removed from the 2015 project to get the construction under the minor threshold cost estimate, leaving the new emergency department without an ambulance bay since. Additionally, this project will also provide a permanent emergency decontamination station off the ambulance bay. At the conclusion of this project, patients arriving to the VA by ambulance will be taken to a dedicated entrance directly adjacent to the Emergency Department, as opposed to being transported through multi-use entrances at this facility, as is the current situation. This project will also complete the landscaping and paving of the ambulance entrance, from Newton Road through the garage, and into the existing parking structure. As part of the site work, a new set of traffic control gates, with observational cameras, will be installed at the entrance from Newton Road, with remote control operation from within the Police Station and Emergency Department Control Center.

Architectural, New Construction.