WINTHROP UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL PARKING GARAGE - Mineola, NY

Project Type Design and build a new parking garage Description Three-level parking garage, 625-car capacity Owner Winthrop University Hospital Architect Sidney Bowne, and Carl Walker Inc. Size 240,000 square feet Construction Cost $ 9.6 million Project Manager Chris Whiteman Project Superintendent Bill Zimmerman

The parking garage was constructed using a post-tensioned form of concrete placement with steel wires. Traditionally, parking garages require beams be placed approximately every 40 feet. By implementing this system, the distance between beams was expanded to approximately 60 feet between each beam, giving the space a more open feeling and less restrictive traffic-flow pattern. This enables the most cost-effective return for optimum parking of vehicles.

Built on the site of the single-grade-level employee parking lot, the new three-level parking garage provides parking for up to 625 cars. Should the hospital ever decide to expand, the structure was designed to accommodate an additional two levels.

Features of the parking garage include an overhead pedestrian bridge that connects to the hospital as well as connecting to a pre-existing parking garage on the other side of the LIRR tracks. A fire-alarm system complete with heat detection units, as well as a sprinkler system was installed. To provide employees with access to the parking garage, a card-access program was developed.