ABSTRACT
Oregon Health & Science University is a nationally prominent research university and Oregon’s only public academic health center. It educates health professionals and scientists and provides leading-edge patient care, community service and biomedical research. A Primary project goal was long-term ability of the building to accommodate both changes in the initial program's needs and to allow for future new programs. The major team members had successfully worked together on several projects, including for OHSU. Regarding MEP system organization, the project team worked together to evaluate dozens of system concepts with the goal of determining and implementing approaches that represented the best value to OHSU. Since opening in 2019, post occupancy evaluation has occurred, with the caveat that COVID restrictions closed the facility down in early 2020, and utilization has been impacted since reopening later in that year.
