The Department of Veterans Affairs, Veterans Health Administration has a design-bid-build requirement for the Design Specialty Care Building construction project (project number 608-315) at the Manchester VA Medical Center (VAMC) located in Manchester, NH.

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• This project will construct an approximately 12,830 sf addition to Building 1 for Audiology and Eye Clinic services.  The contractor’s responsibilities are, but not limited to, furnishing all labor, equipment, and materials required to prepare the site and construct the building addition as shown in the drawings, specifications, and project documents.
• The project includes site work, reconfiguration of existing utilities and new connections to existing utilities.  Most of the utility connections for the addition are new connections to campus utilities.  The project includes new underground piping and conduit to connect to the campus steam plant, emergency generators, and switchgear.  It also includes new connections to the existing campus water distribution, sanitary, and stormwater systems and installation of a new stormwater infiltration system.  Site work includes ledge removal, a retaining wall, minor modification to an existing parking lot, new sidewalks, bollards, and landscaping.
• The addition is primarily a single-story addition to the west end of the first floor of Building 1.  It has a small basement to accommodate steam system infrastructure and a mechanical penthouse containing the air handler, an electrical room, and other components of the mechanical, electrical, and plumbing infrastructure.  The addition connects along the length of the existing building and requires modification of the existing exterior wall and windows, an expansion joint, and connecting the roofs.
• The project includes providing and installing audiology booths and utilization of specialized construction details to acoustically isolate the audiology booths.
• The sprinkler, fire alarm, building controls, and security systems will connect to the existing systems in Building 1.
• Work takes place adjacent to operational clinical space on a fully operational medical center campus.  The project includes measures to minimize disruption to existing clinic operations, including construction and infection control barriers, phasing, noise mitigation, and off hours work for particularly disruptive work, such as utility outages.