Boston – Following the completion of the Crosstown pharmacy, TOCCI recently delivered Boston Medical Center’s (BMC) Crosstown 1 clinical unit, a 25,000sf space adjacent to the active building lobby. This project is the culmination of a 6-year, multi-phased IPD project throughout the majority of the Crosstown building.
Glass storefronts of the Crosstown 1 clinics flank the 7-story building’s central hub. The floor now serves BMC’s patients with a radiology unit, a mammography unit, an outpatient behavioral health clinic, a phlebotomy lab, and a refugee clinic. The behavioral health clinic has over 35 exam and consultation rooms, a research department, and group therapy rooms.
The spaces were previously occupied by retail, office, and food-service tenants, with complex infrastructures to house commercial mechanical and refrigeration equipment. TOCCI completed extensive under-slab scans to locate existing drain lines for subsequent underground trenching and plumbing. The team cut an 11-inch structural indoor slab to connect plumbing lines. KI modular walls – partitions made from materials fitting infectious control and sterile surfaces requirements in healthcare facilities – were installed throughout.
TOCCI coordinated closely with BMC to mitigate disruptions to end users within the busy facility; this ranged from material handling to noise control. The building houses a sleep lab, and it was essential to be conscious of noise levels; the team’s approach included using sound testing meters to ensure proper acoustic containment.
This marks the completion of a collaborative project between BMC, CMTA, Tsoi Kobus Design, the Boston Building Trades, and TOCCI. TOCCI has also worked on renovations to the sixth floor Cognitive Behavior Therapy, fifth floor Primary Care Clinic, and seventh floor Pediatrics Clinic of the 514-bed academic Crosstown medical center.
