Mayo Clinic

The Mayo Clinic’s outpatient clinics and hospitals in three states see more than 400,000 patients annually. Currently Heery serves the medical organization in varying capacities on both the East Coast and the West Coast.

Mayo Clinic Scottsdale recently entered into an open-ended contract with Heery to provide facilities management services for its facility in Arizona’s Sonoran Desert.

The Mayo Clinic initially retained Heery to develop an orderly, phased engineering approach that would help them convert their single clinic building in Jacksonville into a medical and research campus, essentially tripling the clinic’s square footage. Over the past 10 years, Heery engineers planned and designed the initial phase of the infrastructure system and central utility plant, as well as handling expansions to keep up with Mayo’s growth, as called for in the engineering master plan.

In developing the plan, Heery evaluated existing systems (chilled water, heating hot water, domestic hot water, normal and emergency electrical power) against Mayo’s planned growth for the next 20 years. Heery recommended a modular design for the central utility plant, in order to support future expansion needs in a simple, logical manner. As an added benefit to this project, Mayo’s energy and maintenance costs declined, while reliability and flexibility improved. While the campus is devoted to research and clinical functions at present, the Heery engineering team has planned the infrastructure in the future to accommodate inpatient beds and deliver the best atmosphere for patient care. This has required an extraordinary attention to the detailed differences between a patient facility and a research facility, while still balancing the life cycle costs of each decision.

Heery also designed Mayo’s ambulatory surgery and radiation oncology (ASRO) building with a highly sophisticated and complex vertical expansion capability. The building, originally built as a one-story structure with the capacity for four stories, currently has two stories. Construction to add the second story over the existing ambulatory surgery space proved to be an exercise in programming, planning and micro-phasing. The second story includes MRI units now under construction, as well as women’s health areas like clinical rooms and dressing rooms. Engineers developed detailed plans to keep all systems running and meet the stringent requirements for maintaining surgical suites and full operations while construction proceeded.