Scope of Work

• Civil site improvements for a new three-story addition to this regional medical center. The $158 million project adds more than 58,000 square feet of space including 40 more patient beds, two operating rooms, and 20 intensive care beds.
• Civil improvements include grading and drainage for expansion wing, walkways, sewer extension, fire service improvements and bioretention basins. Brelje & Race prepared the civil portion of the construction documents for HCAI and County permit review in coordination with the integrated project delivery (IPD) team. Brelje & Race also prepared the stormwater compliance documents, including the stormwater management plan.
• Provided construction administration, including response to RFIs and change order requests, and verified compliance during project close out.

Project Challenges

• Project required verification that the existing sewage lift station and emergency wastewater storage tank had capacity to accommodate additional sewer flows from the expanded hospital.
• Brelje & Race analyzed the existing onsite fire pump and underground fire storage tanks to verify they could meet building code requirements for fire water flow and volume for the expanded hospital.
• Brelje and Race also upgraded the water treatment plant backwash system to improve the efficiency of the system.

Solutions and Successes

• Network of landscape bioretention basins detain and infiltrate stormwater runoff onsite.
• Project completed within budget and on schedule despite challenges of COVID-19 pandemic.

Other Notes of Interest

• Project awarded 2022 Best Healthcare Project in the California region by Engineering News-Record and 2022 Best Commercial Project in North Bay Business Journal’s annual Top Projects Awards.
• Brelje & Race also provided civil site design services for the initial hospital development project, completed in 2014.
• The hospital is one of the first in California to earn LEED Gold certification.

(Project in partnership with IPD team of Stantec and HerreroBoldt)