According to the American Cancer Society, the estimated population of cancer survivors in the United States will increase from more than 15.5 million in 2016 to 20.3 million by 2026.\u00a0 Improvements in detection and care contributed to this dramatic increase, a result of many decades of research and experience.\u00a0 Severud Associates has a long history of providing structural engineering services for the hospitals and medical facilities where this vital research and care occurs, going back to the design of a cancer lab addition for the Vanderbilt Clinic at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center in 1949.\u00a0 More recently, Severud was retained to engineer the Scott Bieler Clinical Sciences Center at Roswell Park Cancer Institute in Buffalo, New York.
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\nAs the comprehensive cancer center\u2019s first clinical expansion since 1998, the 11-story, 142,000-square-foot building houses six care centers where dedicated medical professionals and others treat the growing number of cancer patients.\u00a0 Four of these\u2014breast oncology, breast imaging, and gynecology, which form the Women\u2019s Health Center, and chemotherapy & infusion\u2014were relocated from the main hospital to free up space for expansion of services that remain there.\u00a0 The other two centers are new:\u00a0 survivorship & supportive care and adolescent & young adult, which are focused on the ongoing needs of cancer survivors who are no longer in active treatment.<\/p>\n
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Structurally interesting, the steel-framed building occupies a narrow space between the street and low-rise wings of the existing hospital.\u00a0 Its carefully placed columns and compact foundation of 175-ton piles to rock minimized impact to existing footings and caissons.\u00a0 Where the new construction rises above the surrounding buildings, the framing cantilevers to increase the floor area.\u00a0 On the street side of the Center, Severud\u2019s engineers also used cantilevered beams to create the building\u2019s distinctive serrated fa\u00e7ade, which is clad by reflective glass curtain wall with terra cotta accents.\u00a0 A two-story atrium containing enclosed walkways that connect to the main hospital creates the building\u2019s street-level entrance.\u00a0 Above the atrium, the fa\u00e7ade of a three-story block of treatment rooms features terra cotta fins, which help protect patients from harsh sunlight.\u00a0 The overall design achieves the desired goal of making the new facility a focal point of Roswell Park\u2019s main campus located in the City of Buffalo.<\/p>\n
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Through the years, Severud Associates has earned a reputation for engineering high-quality structural systems for new cancer centers and other medical facilities as well as those requiring renovations, alterations, and upgrades necessitated by technological advances and everyday use. \u00a0In 2017 alone, the firm has been retained to provide structural engineering services for projects for NYU Langone Medical Center and New York-Presbyterian Hospital in Manhattan; Mount Sinai hospitals and cancer centers in Manhattan and Brooklyn; and Westchester Medical Center in Valhalla, New York.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
According to the American Cancer Society, the estimated population of cancer survivors in the United States will increase from more than 15.5 million in 2016 to 20.3 million by 2026.\u00a0 Improvements in detection and care contributed to this dramatic increase, a result of many decades of research and experience.\u00a0 Severud Associates has a long history … Continue reading “Roswell Park Cancer Institute\u2013Scott Bieler Clinical Sciences Center”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3759,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev70.fiveminutes.in\/severud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3758"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev70.fiveminutes.in\/severud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev70.fiveminutes.in\/severud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev70.fiveminutes.in\/severud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev70.fiveminutes.in\/severud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3758"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dev70.fiveminutes.in\/severud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6013,"href":"https:\/\/dev70.fiveminutes.in\/severud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3758\/revisions\/6013"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev70.fiveminutes.in\/severud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev70.fiveminutes.in\/severud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev70.fiveminutes.in\/severud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev70.fiveminutes.in\/severud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}