Built for tomorrow through flexible & resilient design
Industry-leading research and development. Proprietary analysis and production tools. In-depth knowledge of local materials preferences and construction practices. We bring the full force of our distinctive blend of experience, resources and technological innovation – and a deeply collaborative interdisciplinary approach – to every healthcare facility we design.
Leveraging technology for greater effectiveness, speed & value
Embodied-carbon experts
Local global
Optimizing
Local experience/ global expertise
Simultaneous collaboration & coordination
STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING
Firm-wide support
RESTORATION & RENEWAL ACOUSTICS & VIBRATION
SUSTAINABILITY & RESILIENCE
High-performance building solutions outcomes WHY US? Experience Here’s How
Solving unique challenges with customized solutions
PROTECTIVE DESIGN & SECURITY CONSTRUCTION ENGINEERING
FAÇADE ENGINEERING
Proactive & collaborative
Advanced project delivery for fast-track construction & reducing project risk
RESILIENT DESIGN & FLEXIBLE SOLUTIONS
We design versatile, adaptable structures that last.
DEEP BENCH OF EXPERTS/CREATIVE SOLUTIONS
Our diverse pool of talent ensures the most inventive solutions.
OPTIMIZING OUTCOMES/REDUCING COSTS
We craft cost-effective solutions that meet or exceed expectations.
STREAMLINING DESIGN THROUGH TECHNOLOGY
Our custom tools and analysis expertise expedite the design process.
INTERDISCIPLINARY COLLABORATION & COORDINATION
We work with all team members to ensure the best results for the project.
Whether it’s an academic medical center, specialty hospital or ambulatory care center, creating healthcare facilities requires highly specialized experience.
We’re skilled at balancing the competing demands of these projects. Fine-tuning a structure to optimize patient care, swiftly changing equipment and technologies, regulatory compliance, staff productivity, continuity of operations and the need to expand or modify over time? That’s a challenge we love to tackle, each and every time.
Academic Medical Centers
Women’s & Children’s Health
Cancer Care
Cardiovascular Hospitals
Multispecialty Hospitals
Medical Office Buildings/Ambulatory Care
Design-Build & Integrated Project Delivery (IPD)
Temporary Facilities
DESIGN ENGINEERING FOR 2,000+ HEALTHCARE PROJECTS
RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER
Chicago, Illinois
Perkins&Will
Rush University Medical Center’s transformation program invests in new technologies and buildings to improve patient care, while also reorganizing the entire R.U. campus. We provided structural design services for the multiyear redevelopment plan for this award-winning 845,000-square-foot, 14-story hospital addition; an entry pavilion that connects to the existing hospital; and the renovation of the existing hospital. LEED Gold certified.
Distinguished Building Honor Award, AIA Chicago, 2013
Platinum Award, AIA National Healthcare Design Award, 2014
Building Team, Building Design + Construction, 2012
A LEADER IN SUSTAINABILITY
At the time of its completion, the hospital addition at Rush University was the largest new-construction healthcare project in the world to be LEED Gold
James
OSU Comprehensive Cancer Center Columbus, Ohio
HOK
UChicago Medicine, Center for Care & Discovery
Hyde Park, Illinois
Johns Hopkins Hospital, Sheikh Zayed Tower and the Charlotte R. Bloomberg Children’s Center Baltimore, Maryland Perkins&Will
CHRISTIANA CARE HEALTH SERVICES, WOMEN’S & INFANTS’ SERVICES BUILDING
Wilmington, Delaware
HKS, Inc.
This eight-story labor and pediatric-care facility, constructed adjacent to Christiana Hospital, houses labor and delivery suites, private areas for mothers and infants, and expanded emergency services and community spaces, including a rooftop garden and play areas. We provided structural engineering services for the project, whose design prioritizes the safety, comfort and privacy of families during and after labor.
UNINTERRUPTED SERVICE
A service tunnel and temporary entrance, along with strict vibration-control measures, minimized disruptions to the operation of the existing facility during construction.
New York-Presbyterian Hospital, David H. Koch Center New York, New York
Pei Cobb Freed + Partners
Northwestern Medicine, Prentice Women’s Hospital
Chicago, Illinois
Stantec + Cannon Design Collaborative
Courtesy CallisonRTKL
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CENTER FOR CANCER CARE AT MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER
New York, New York
Perkins Eastman and Ennead Architects
Our innovative resilience strategy safeguarded MSKCC’s premier cancer center from flooding while vastly improving the patient experience. Since the building lies within a 100-year flood zone, we incorporated such safety measures as operable barriers that will rapidly deploy in the event of a flood. Our design for extremely heavy loads allowed linear accelerator vaults and other large equipment (usually confined to ground or below-grade levels) to be placed on the upper floors, above the flood line. LEED Gold certified.
ACEC Engineering Excellence Awards, National Recognition Award, 2021
ACEC New York Engineering Excellence Awards, Diamond Award, Structural Systems, 2021
Interior Design, Healthcare – Best of Year Awards, 2021
ENR New York, Best Health Care and Project of the Year Finalist, 2020
IIDA Healthcare Design Awards, Transformation and Innovation Award, 2020
DOUBLE-DUTY DESIGN
The same design that permitted us to relocate extremely heavy equipment to the upper floors enabled the construction of large, versatile open spaces, enhancing patient comfort.
Northwestern Medicine, Kishwaukee Hospital Cancer Center DeKalb, Illinois
BSA LifeStructures (top left)
University of Pennsylvania, Roberts Proton Therapy Center Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Tsoi Kobus Design (bottom left)
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS HOSPITAL, CENTER FOR ADVANCED HEART CARE
Kansas City, Kansas
RTKL Associates, Inc.
The heart hospital addition to the Bell Hospital, locally known as “K.U. Med,” has six levels that cover 250,000 square feet and is joined by a parking facility. The hospital also includes new structured ramps to the emergency department, a two-level bridge connecting the buildings, and two major tower column transfers.
BUILT-IN ADAPTABILITY
To accommodate potential growth, the KUMC heart care center is designed for vertical expansion, allowing for two additional levels in the future.
Here’s How
Cardiovascular Hospitals
Texas Health, Harris Methodist Hospital
Fort Worth Heart Center
Fort Worth, Texas
HKS, Inc.
New York, New York
New York Presbyterian Hospital, the Vivian & Seymour Milstein Family Heart Center
Pei Cobb Freed and Partners
TEXAS HEALTH HOSPITAL FRISCO & U.T. SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER Frisco, Texas
HKS, Inc.
We provided structural engineering services for a 325,000-square-foot hospital and a 120,000-square-foot medical center occupying a 20-acre shared campus. The hospital features 80 beds (expandable to 140); surgical, emergency and women’s services; and a neonatal intensive-care unit. The medical center houses primary-care practices, as well as a multispecialty clinic offering neurology, spine surgery, and state-of-the-art concussion rehabilitation facilities.
CREATIVE USE OF MASS TIMBER
Massive glulam V-columns support the breezeway canopy between the hospital and medical center, giving the campus its signature look.
Here’s How
Boone Hospital Center Columbia, Missouri
HKS, Inc.
NorthBay Medical Center, Hospital Expansion
Fairfield, California
Ratcliff Architects
Shirley Ryan AbilityLab Chicago, Illinois
Gensler/HDR
Photographs
2019, Sasha Moravec
MOB/Ambulatory Care
SANTA CLARA VALLEY MEDICAL CENTER DOWNTOWN
San José, California
Ratcliff Architects
Located over a future Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) tunnel expansion, this new three-story, 61,743-square-foot medical office building serves the downtown San José community, offering urgent care, examination rooms, radiology and pharmacy services, and a blood laboratory. Our structural design for the steel-framed building uses moment frames at the lateral system to preserve flexibility. The exterior combines precast concrete panels and spandrel glazing. LEED Gold certified.
BUILT OVER A TUNNEL
The building’s location required close coordination with BART to determine elevator shaft placement, as well as creation of a unique entry portal to address challenging support conditions,
Why Us? EXPERIENCE
Here’s How
Francis Cauffman
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Bergen
Montvale, New Jersey
EwingCole
Northwestern Medicine Lavin Family Pavilion
Lavin, Illinois
Cannon Design (left)
New York Hotel & Motel Trades Council, Brooklyn Health Center Brooklyn, New York
Francis Cauffman (far left)
Design-Build & IPD
JAMES A. HALEY VETERANS’ HOSPITAL
Tampa, Florida
Page Southerland Page
A new four-story bed tower added 150 beds and 96 surgical single-patient rooms to the capacity of one of the busiest veterans’ hospitals in the nation. We performed structural engineering, protective design and connection design for the 240,000-square-foot facility, as well as a one-story pavilion that functions as the main entrance to both buildings. Structural systems were selected to meet the challenges of poor soil conditions and progressive collapse for this fast-track design-build project. LEED Silver certified.
TOPOGRAPHICAL CHALLENGES
To mitigate the risk of sink holes due to poor subsurface conditions and variable site geology, our design included deep foundations supported by ground slabs on piles.
Design-Build & IPD
Barnes-Jewish Hospital, Tower Replacement
Saint Louis, Missouri
CannonDesign Ltd.
Martin Army Community Hospital Replacement
Fort Benning, Georgia
Page Southerland Page
FAST PIVOT
Thornton Tomasetti Responds to the Novel Coronavirus
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As communities around the world battle the COVID-19 pandemic, our engineers, scientists and programmers have been lending a hand. Here are a few of the ways we’ve used our ingenuity to assist with some of the challenges facing all of us.
WALTER E. WASHINGTON
CONVENTION CENTER
WASHINGTON, DC
Hensel Phelps Construction
With help from our structural engineers, a section of this convention center became a 443-bed alternate care facility for non-COVID patients.
Here’s How
EXCEL LONDON
LONDON, ENGLAND
National Health Service
Our applied science team assisted with the installation of liquid oxygen tanks at the ExCeL London conference center during its transformation into the U.K.’s largest hospital.
MCCORMICK PLACE
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
S tantec
We provided structural engineering services for the conversion of portions of America’s largest convention center into a field hospital with an up to 3,000-patient capacity.
WESTLAKE HOSPITAL
MELROSE PARK, ILLINOIS
Bulley & Andrews
Temporarily reopened in 2020, this facility served COVID-19 patients in need of ICU-level care. Our construction engineers reinforced the structure to support new MEP equipment.
SUNY STONY BROOK
LONG ISLAND, NEW YORK
Turner Construction
We provided structural and civil engineering support for the development of more than 200,000 square feet of alternate care facilities on a 10-acre site at Stony Brook University.
HERE’S HOW
We apply scientific and engineering principles to solve the world’s challenges – starting with yours. Whether we’re focused on the design, construction and performance of buildings or expanding into new disciplines, we never limit ourselves, applying our expertise to all types of projects across a range of industries.
How can we help you?
We offer solutions for an ever-widening range of services and sectors.
Acoustics, Noise & Vibration
Aviation
Biomechanics & Life Sciences
Commercial
Construction Engineering
Critical Facilities
Cultural & Community
Decarbonization
Defense
Education
Energy
Façades
Forensics & Investigations
Government
Healthcare
Hospitality & Gaming
Insurance
Laboratory & Research
Protective Design & Security
Residential
Resilience
Restoration & Renewal
Special Structures
Sports & Public Assembly
Structural Design
Sustainability
Tall & Supertall Buildings
Transportation & Infrastructure
Faz Ehsan
Managing Principal FEhsan@ThorntonTomasetti.com
+1.312.596.2058
CHICAGO
Faz heads our operations in the Midwestern United States. He’s led structural design teams for nearly a dozen major healthcare projects in the U.S. and internationally.
Claudia handles structural coordination with a multidisciplinary design team. Her expertise includes performing linear and nonlinear analysis for vibration, wind and seismic design.
Mack Conachen Vice President MConachen@ThorntonTomasetti.com +1.619.550.5900
SAN DIEGO
As director of our San Diego office, Mack has wide-ranging experience in structural design and analysis for healthcare, biotech and laboratory design projects.
Michael Wesolowsky Principal MWesolowsky@ThorntonTomasetti.com
+1.905.271.7888
MISSISSAUGA, CANADA
A senior member of our acoustics, noise and vibration team, Mike focuses on vibration and architectural acoustic studies and vibration control R&D.
Theresa Curtis Principal TCurtis@ThorntonTomasetti.com +1.415.365.6928
SAN FRANCISCO
Theresa specializes in alternative project delivery methods, such as design-build, IPD and P3, in several market sectors, including healthcare.
Jeff Elliott Principal JElliott@ThorntonTomasetti.com +1.972.764.6254
DALLAS
Jeff oversees our Dallas, Austin and Houston offices. He’s skilled in managing the design of challenging structures, commercial and residential towers, and healthcare facilities.
Elizabeth Chong Senior Associate EChong@ThorntonTomasetti.com +1.202.580.6354
WASHINGTON, D.C.
Lisa supervises and executes structural analysis and design, coordinates with BIM staff, performs complex calculations and creates computational models.
