A Clean Bill of Health for Broward Health Medical Center with Re-Design & Renovations by Peacock Architects
Peacock Architects (PA) have been tremendously busy with an influx of healthcare related jobs. The biggest chunk coming from Broward Health, one of the nation’s 10 largest safety-net healthcare systems. Their mission is to provide quality healthcare to the people they serve and support the needs of all their physicians and employees. With more than 30 locations throughout Broward County, PA has been updating and renovating 7 of their existing locations.
The first project with Broward Health was set in motion with the construction and relocation of a new 4,400 sq. ft. Wells Fargo bank, located on the southeast corner of Andrews Ave and 17th Street in Fort Lauderdale, FL. The project scope included the design of a “warm shell” one-story bank building, the demolition of the existing one-story Wells Fargo building, and the design of a new parking lot in place of the demolished building.
Peacock Architects have also taken the lead on the Broward Health’s Fort Lauderdale campus 4th floor office conversion and corridor renovation. This floor was previously sublet to the Florida Department of Health. They have since moved out and are planning to divide it into smaller suites leasing them out to doctors. The job was to redesign the layout by creating a new corridor through the suites as well as to divide the large room into multiple smaller suites creating new doctors offices.
The next project on the roster was an office conversion of their Specialty Care Center Office. On the 2nd floor of the main Fort Lauderdale campus, there is a specialty care center that serves a large proportion of the community, both insured as well as uninsured clients. Their services are enhanced with community education classes innutrition and mental health, as well as individualized counseling and case management of patients with diabetes, asthma and HIV. PA created a new office design map that could accommodate 4 private offices, a large training room, and a reception area to better service their patients. This project is now complete and the new space is operating effectively.
Another office conversion that is in the works is their Home Health Office. It’s currently a home health office for doctors, but they are wanting to turn it into a new storage facility for their supplies or into their in-house print shop. Located in an old house that was converted into an office, massive structural and electrical support is needed for this venture so PA is currently problem solving for best possible solutions.
Switching gears from construction and office conversions, the Peacock Architect team is currently re-designing the Master Signage Plan for Broward Health’s Coral Springs Campus. Fun fact: our very own Cristin Peacock was born at this hospital. Peacock was hired to update the signage across the campus, create better wayfinding signage, and add new monument and banner signs on the larger roads leading up to the campus. PA is designing an out of the box monument sign with an art piece that will eventually lead to their art walk. After the way finding signs are complete they will be producing a new archway as well as new signage off of the bridge. They have just completed the concepts of the signage package and are now working on submitting the master plans to the city.
PA is also doing a similar wayfinding job for Broward Health’s Imperial Pointe campus, but on a smaller scale. They are re-designing their monument sign on US-1 to give them more visibility. If you’re a South Florida native, be on the lookout for these new additions.
Although this project got killed, PA had a lot of fun conceiving a plan for a security upgrade to the Broward Health parking garages. Broward Health was wanting to up their security and safety measures in their parking garages with state of the art screening structures. PA created a beautiful design of a facade made with metal paneling that would also include an artistic feature of Broward Health signage to be seen from the outside. A moment of silence for this unbuilt beauty.
Some other private medical projects that PA has just wrapped up on include:
Issac Medical, located in Deerfield Beach was previously a spa, but has since been taken over by a private doctor. They reconfigured the space into 4 medical offices, a lab, a reception area, and an admin wing for the staff.
BeWell MedSpa, which previously housed a massage parlor. They gutted the old space in its entirety and turned it into a med spa complete with 4 rooms, a reception area, and a small operating room.
Williams Cancer Institute: an interior fit-up of an existing office space off of Commercial Boulevard in Fort Lauderdale, FL.