Scripps Health Clinic Encinitas

The Scripps Health Clinic Encinitas tenant improvement consisted of over 40,000 SF of newly constructed medical office space. The new medical office spaces included Family Medicine, OBGYN, Ophthalmology, Audiology, Optometry, Dermatology, Cardiology, and Neurology. Designed by SmithGroup, an award winning integrated architectural firm, the project team completed ahead of schedule two months from the original schedule deadline. Accelerating the schedule was a team effort by all involved, adding an additional Lusardi Superintendent to help expedite the construction.

The building did not have any freight elevator or means of access. A portion of the curtain-wall was removed and the team constructed a dance-floor scaffold and ramp into each floor to quickly load materials into the space. Clerestory windows were installed in the interior corridors to allow for more natural light to enter from the outside.

Haley Hill Photography, courtesy of SmithGroup

Tri-City Wellness Center

Tri-City Wellness Center is a 58,000 SF integrated medical health and fitness center. Built in conjunction with a medical office building that will house an urgent care center and doctors’ offices. The project is the first of its kind in Southern California.

Amenities include: 58,000 SF medically integrated health & fitness center; Aquatic center including 25-meter lap pool; exercise and therapy pools with sun terrace; “Kidz”-in-Motion activity based child care; State-of-the-art fitness equipment including cardiovascular, circuit training, free weights and flexibility; Designated spinning studio; 1/10 mile cushioned walk/ jog indoor track; Executive-style locker rooms with separate women’s and men’s steam, sauna and massage rooms; Comprehensive group exercise programming with four studios including mind/body studios; Health Education Conference Center with healthy-cooking area; and Healthy Café.

Pomona Valley Health Center

This project consisted of construction of a two- story tilt-up building totaling 50,000 square feet with 30,000 square feet of complex, high-end medical tenant improvements. The improvements consisted of an Urgent Care Suite, a Radiology Suite, a 24-hour Sleep Disorder Clinic, a Primary- Care Suite and a Physical Therapy Suite. The project has been certified of LEED Silver by the USGBC.

The medical tenant improvements included a state of the art, $2M, 3 Telsa Siemens MRI magnet, a 64-slice CT scanner and three digital ultrasound machines.

Moreno Valley Skilled Nursing Facility

The brand new Skilled Nursing Facility consists of 99 patient beds and 50 patient rooms. The facility contains dining areas, kitchen, rehabilitation areas, activity areas, and outdoor enclosed courtyards. The (3) separate buildings connected by pedestrian bridges inherently provides outdoor courtyards that allow for natural light and continuous lines of sight from different areas of the buildings.

The single story 45,000 square foot building was built using prefabricated wood trusses constructed office and craned into place. The exterior consists of plaster with a tile roof. OSHPD regulated project that required California Department of Public Health certification to treat patients.

The project was completed on schedule. However there were many challenges with plans and specifications being permitted to the 1998 building codes. OSHPD inspected the project to the 1998 building codes which posed many obstacles as Lusardi was constructing the project in 2018-2020. This caused issues which lead to delays from redesign, construction revisions, and coordination meetings.

4S Ranch Medical Center

The 4S Ranch Health Center is a unique health care center with a Spanish Hacienda style design. This style architecture was realized with design elements such as a smooth plaster-like exterior finish, a low-pitched clay tile roof, stone quatrefoil elements, wrought iron accents, pre-cast concrete columns, and rounded arch windows.

Also included was the three tenant improvements for the occupancy of cCare, Arch Health Partners, and Rady Children’s Hospital. Among many high- tech equipment like PET/CT scanners and other diagnostic tools, cCare required a complex 2,500 square foot Linear Accelerator Vault. Once complete the building was Certified LEED Silver.

Veterans Affairs Outpatient Center Kearny Mesa

The project consisted of reconstructing an existing 100,000 SF Bank of America building into a state-of-the-art Outpatient Center for the Veterans Affairs by expanding the building 25,000 SF. Adjacent to the facility is a new poured-in-place 4-story, 395 stall parking garage. The facility was constructed over 19 months, finishing ahead of the anticipated completion date by more than four months. The project remained on budget during construction amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, material delays, and increased material pricing.  

The Outpatient Center houses an array of medical services including dental, physical therapy, women’s health, prosthetics, mental health, radiology, eye clinic, pathology and audiology. 

The design and preconstruction process started with Lusardi, Ware Malcomb and Protea Properties in 2016. The integrated project team worked together for two years developing the drawings and working through multiple rounds of budget pricing to make sure every dollar was spent judiciously. Because the project was not a new ground-up building, Ware Malcomb and the design team worked closely on multiple value-engineering efforts regarding the structural integrity of the building. This benefited the Owner in cost, schedule and met all compliance standards for the VA.  

Building Information Modeling (BIM) was a critical component on the project starting in the early stages of design. It elevated the 2D drawings to 3D and helped the project team use every inch of ceiling space, interstitial space and cavity space. Because the building was a retrofit, all MEP, fire sprinkler systems, low voltage and framing coordination was critical. BIM brought the engineers and contractors into a platform to iron out design and construction related clash detection before walls were demolished and rebuilt.