Boston, MA – Located in the heart of Boston’s Longwood Medical and Academic Area, the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DCFI)’s Yawkey Center for Cancer Care is nearing completion. DFCI is dedicated to providing expert, compassionate care to children and adults while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, care, and prevention of cancer. Its design for a new building on Brookline Avenue and Jimmy Fund Way was created by Zimmer Gunsul Frasca (ZGF). Conceived as a new campus gateway, the center will be home to clinical facilities where state-of-the-art care for patients is fully integrated with cutting-edge cancer research. Clinical areas will not only have the most advanced equipment and technology, but also a design, layout, and décor that will reflect Dana-Farber’s tradition of comprehensive, compassionate care for patients and their families. This project will also consolidate patient drop-off, parking, and service operations to a single location from which both patients and materials can be efficiently transported to the places they need to go on the DFCI campus.
Vanasse Hangen Brustlin, Inc. (VHB), was retained to provide transportation engineering, civil engineering, and technical permitting services in support of the regulatory review and approval process for this project. VHB was also involved in every step of the project from the conceptual planning through design and construction. This project is a highly complex one that has many programmatic accommodation, utilities, decanting, and logistical challenges. In meeting these challenges VHB is helping to develop 275,000 square feet of program space and 455 below-grade parking spaces on this relatively small urban site.
VHB is a long-time supporter of DCFI through its annual Jimmy Fund golf tournament. Over the past 18 years, VHB, its clients, and business partners have raised more than $690,000 for the Jimmy Fund.