Health Care Facilities Project Experience

Sarasota Memorial Hospital
Quietly Making Noise, LLC (QMN) has provided acoustical consulting services for many health care facility projects, including new large scale hospitals and clinics, hospital expansions, renovations, central energy plants, medical office buildings, and assisted living facilities. Principal Acoustical Consultant Lisa Schott brings a unique range of experience in design, construction, testing, and troubleshooting to create innovative solutions for challenging noise and vibration issues in health care facilities.

QMN is familiar with and regularly designs projects to meet the latest regulatory requirements and guidelines for health care acoustical design, including the Facility Guidelines Institute (FGI) Guidelines for Design and Construction of Health Care Facilities, Green Guide for Health Care, and U.S. military and Department of Veterans Affairs health care facility specifications.

Following is a list of some projects that have been completed or are currently in progress. We work closely with the client to design multiple noise mitigation options that the architect, builder, and facility operator can agree upon, considering cost, constructability, schedule, aesthetics, and other considerations.

Sarasota Memorial Hospital, Sarasota, Florida

  • Acoustical testing and design of central energy plant (CEP) noise control to meet stringent community sound level limits; development of extensive cooling tower noise mitigation measures; ongoing quarterly acoustical tests of cooling tower and annual tests of generators to meet City of Sarasota Planning Board Resolution requirements
  • Acoustical design of noise and vibration mitigation for new hybrid operating room
  • Acoustical design of CEP expansion
  • Acoustical design of certain aspects of oncology tower and on-site background ambient sound level testing prior to construction

VA Medical Center, Orlando, Florida

  • New hospital, clinic, assisted living center, rehabilitation facility, and chapel acoustical design; designed to achieve LEED points for Acoustic Environment
  • Acoustical design of new SimLearn education facility for advanced health care simulation training in an “Immersive Training Environment”

St. Joseph’s Hospital South, Riverview, Florida

  • New 90 bed acute care hospital and central energy plant (CEP) acoustical design
  • On-site construction observations to ensure good acoustical construction practices

Fort Leonard Wood Hospital Replacement, Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri

  • Acoustical design of new 4-story, 210,000 square foot hospital and clinic building, including all patient service areas, offices, staff support, common areas, service areas, and the central utility plant (CUP)

Morton Plant Mease Hospital, Clearwater, Florida

  • Acoustical design of new patient tower to consolidate surgical services, women’s services, and orthopedics as well as create a new entry with associated public spaces
  • Project includes over 250,000 square feet of new space and renovation of 275,000 square feet in various existing buildings
  • Project includes a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU)
  • Acoustical testing and design of noise mitigation for central energy plant

Orlando Health Heart Institute, Orlando, Florida

  • Acoustical testing and development of noise and vibration mitigation measures for existing MRI suite to minimize impact on staff, offices, and exam rooms
  • Acoustical design of classroom and conference room facility to ensure a positive learning environment and speech privacy between rooms

Orlando Health University of Florida Cancer Center, Orlando, Florida

  • Acoustical design of medical air and vacuum systems and development of noise and vibration mitigation measures to minimize potential impact on patient rooms located directly below mechanical penthouse

Winter Park Memorial Hospital, Winter Park, Florida

  • Acoustical design of noise and vibration mitigation measures for mechanical equipment adjacent to new Imaging Department expansion

Medical Office Building, New Smyrna Beach, Florida

  • Acoustical design of noise and vibration mitigation measures for MRI suite

Fort Irwin Hospital Replacement, Fort Irwin, California

  • New hospital, clinic, and central utility plant (CUP) acoustical design

Florida Hospital Waterman, Tavares, Florida

  • Acoustical testing of patient room sound levels to optimize head wall location for lower sound levels after renovation

Tampa Surgical Center, Tampa, Florida

  • Acoustical design of noise and vibration mitigation measures for penthouse mechanical equipment

Joint Base Andrews Ambulatory Care Center, Maryland

  • Acoustical design of renovation of mechanical penthouse and main lobby

Arnold Palmer Hospital, Orlando, Florida

  • Acoustical design of noise and vibration mitigation measures for penthouse
    mechanical equipment including compressors and vacuum pumps

Morton Plant Mease Hospital, Clearwater, Florida

  • Acoustical design of Doyle Women’s Initiative renovation of existing building; design of noise mitigation during construction while building was occupied as well as new building acoustical controls; special consideration for neonatal intensive care unit (NICU)

St. Joseph’s Hospital Main Campus, Tampa, Florida

  • Acoustical design of noise and vibration mitigation measures for penthouse mechanical equipment located above new IR and OR surgical suites

Bayfront Health, St. Petersburg, Florida

  • Acoustical testing of central energy plant generators and recommendations for noise mitigation

Keesler Air Force Base Hospital Expansion, Biloxi, Mississippi

  • Acoustical testing of HVAC systems to assess compliance with military sound
    criteria and generally accepted industry recommendations for a positive healing
    environment

United States Naval Academy Medical Clinic Replacement, Annapolis, Maryland

  • New clinic building acoustical design, including acoustical separation between noise-sensitive spaces, mechanical equipment, and lobby reverberation analysis and design

Elmhurst Memorial Hospital, Elmhurst, Illinois

  • Acoustical design of expanded central utility plant (CUP) to minimize impact on nearby residences and the hospital building

University of Central Florida College of Medicine, Orlando, Florida

  • Acoustical testing and design of retrofit acoustical absorption for microscopy laboratory and lecture hall in an existing university educational building

Mason Community Center Medical Office Building, Mason, Ohio

  • Acoustical testing of examination room separation walls and design of retrofit noise mitigation measures to improve speech privacy

Spring Arbor of Salisbury Assisted Living Center, Chesterfield County, Virginia

  • Acoustical analysis of reverberation in activities room and design of retrofit acoustical absorption

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