Health Professions Campus Building 2 Check it out
By The Numbers: 59,800 square feet, 4 stories, $28.5 million construction cost, 6th green building, with a $16 million, 5-story parking and transit facility nearby
As with the rest of the health campus, "Building II" will be adjacent to the MAX light rail lines. In addition, a joint-use, five-story parking facility (known in official government terms as an intermodal transit facility) is being built near the Pacific building. Pacific is contributing $1.6 million to the construction of the parking facility, with the City of Hillsboro and Tuality Hospital each also contributing $1.6 million. The state of Oregon's share is $7 million with the federal government contributing $4.3 million. The parking structure's first two floors will be open to the public with the rest reserved for Pacific faculty, staff and patients and Tuality employees and patients.
Construction of the new Health Professions Building in Hillsboro
The 59,800 square foot building is scheduled to be completed in August 2010, the second of four planned buildings on the health campus. Construction cost is set at $28.5 million. The contractor is Lease Crutcher Lewis with the firm of Yost, Grube and Hall Architecture doing the design work.
Green Building Details
The facility will join five other new buildings on both the Hillsboro and Forest Grove campuses that meet LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) green building design, developed by the U.S. Green Building Council. Four of the five buildings received "gold" certification. LEED design components include the use of low energy lighting and electrical fixtures, low-flow toilets and water fixtures, minimum irrigation requirements with native plants being used for landscaping, and the possibility of using a rainwater harvest system.
Who's in the Building
The first floor will have a several classrooms, the graduate admissions offices, mailroom and loading dock, a student lounge and security office.
The second floor will house the dean of the College of Health Professions and the School of Professional Psychology (SPP). Currently, the SPP program is housed in two locations, Hillsboro and Portland. The Psychological Service Center, now in Portland and operated by SPP, will join the Iris Clinic, which currently offers services in English and Spanish at the Hillsboro campus. The SPP program expects to develop a large clinic in Hillsboro with specialty subdivisions that will serve the community, while providing an excellent training ground for student clinicians.
The third floor will be occupied by the School of Occupational Therapy. The program is presently housed in Creighton Hall, the first Health Professions Campus building in Hillsboro.
The fourth floor of the new structure will house research facilities for the School of Pharmacy plus a human anatomy lab to serve all the programs at the HPC campus.
Posted by Barb Richey (rich0286@pacificu.edu) on Sep 10, 2009 at 9:38 AM
Edited by Lance Kissler (lkissler@pacificu.edu) on Sep 15, 2009 at 3:27 PM
