Children’s National Hospital

From 1986 until 2013, SK&A served as the structural engineer-of-record for new construction, alterations, and structural retrofit work that was built at the Children’s National Medical Center (CNMC) in Washington, DC. The gross area of new floor design undertaken at CNMC by SK&A, consisted of approximately 570,000 sf of hospital, laboratory, administrative, and support spaces (exclusive of service levels within the hospital), and 230,000 sf of structured parking.

The various expansions of the CNMC were generally in the form of lateral tower additions to the main building, several vertical extensions of the main hospital tower at several stages, and construction of various support faculties, utility upgrades (including a full retrofit of electrical systems), new rooftop heliport, new laboratory spaces, a new MRI unit on the second floor, and a new medical office building. SK&A also served as CNMC’s prime consultant for developing the design and administering the construction of the structural repairs to the existing original underground parking garage of the hospital.