TriHealth’s Good Samaritan Hospital is currently engaging in a five-year master plan that will renovate + add new structures to its tight urban campus.

For a more welcoming experience for patients + visitors, the campus will be reoriented toward the preferred vehicular entrance. Once on campus, two new structures will take shape.

First, a new 700-space parking garage for hospital staff. The five-level post-tensioned one-way slab + beam system utilizes a two-bay wide layout on the lower two levels and a three-bay layout on the upper three levels with a central ramp. Because the grade changed 45 ft across the site, buttress retaining walls were needed to retain up to 20 ft of soil. Areas of the site utilized lightweight backfill to reduce the lateral pressures on the wall. Drilled piers socketed into rock were used to the support the building columns + retaining walls.

The existing parking garage will be demolished; on its site the second new structure, a six-story inpatient hospital, will stand. The new space will house the emergency department, TriHealth Cancer Institute, surgery center, diagnostic center + additional outpatient services.

The structure, which will be constructed with reinforced cast-in-place concrete + structural steel framing, required analysis + specific design for vibration-sensitive equipment + service areas. The team also designed for long cantilevers for ambulance + emergency department canopies. Also, the new structures were designed to tie into the existing structures. All construction will be completed while the campus remains operational.