The Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh (CHP) of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Health System (UPMC) is relocating to the campus of the former St. Francis Medical Center in the Lawrenceville area of Pittsburgh, Pa. This $575 million replacement hospital will house approximately 900,000-sf of clinical, procedure, treatment, support, and research space. Occupancy of the Lawrenceville hospital is expected in late spring of 2009. Pittsburgh-based Astorino was chosen to design the campus master plan, all hospital facilities, and to serve as architect of record for the new 10-story, 230,000-sf Academic Medical Research Building (AMRB). Tsoi/Kobus & Associates (TK&A) is the medical research laboratory fit-out architect. Bard, Rao + Athanas (BR+A) is the MEP and fire protection consulting engineer, and GPR Planners Collaborative is the laboratory planner. The AMRB will create a state-of-the-art pediatric healthcare and research facility, and will include a conference center and shared auditorium which will be open to the entire medical campus. Scheduled for completion in summer of 2008, the freestanding building will also allow for future research expansion. With financial assistance from the State of Pennsylvania, the project will seek a LEED rating from the U.S. Green Building Council.
