SERVICES
Preliminary Design
Structural Analysis
Construction Documents
Equipment Support and Anchorage
Plan Approvals
Quality Assurance Review
Construction Administration
Value Engineering
SIZE
2,000 SF
OWNER
UC Irvine Medical Center
ARCHITECT
Liebke Architects
ORANGE, CA
UC Irvine Health is one of the only healthcare providers in Orange County to provide state-of-art radiation oncology treatment. In order to facilitate the installation of the Linear Accelerator (LINACC), the TrueBream™ STx, in the new suite at the medical center, the roof of a single-story component of the existing building had to be removed. The vault consists of reinforced concrete up to 4 feet thick with up to 10 inches of embedded lead plating. The entire vault structure is supported on a deep-drilled caisson foundation that is independent of the building’s foundation system. This necessitated the use of special low-overhead drilling rigs due to constrictions of the existing construction.