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NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg signed Intro 478A, which enacts the NYC Plumbing Code based on ICC's International Plumbing Code (IPC). The bill also includes several administrative provisions and highlights the intent to adopt 2003 editions of the International Building Code (IBC), International Fuel Gas Code (IFGC), and International Mechanical Code (IMC), and the International Residential Code (IRC). Next year's bill will formerly adopt the IBC, IRC, IFGC, and IMC along with the NYC modifications. It is anticipated that all the codes will have an effective date of July 2007.
New York City Nursing Homes now require Carbon Monoxide Detection Systems. We are on the leading edge of the design of these new systems which are among the first completed installations in New York. Contact us for more details.
By 2007, Life Safety Codes will require that all Skilled Nursing Facilities be fully sprinklered. We are experts in the design and engineering of sprinkler and other fire protection systems. Call us for a consultation.
Why us: Innovative & Experienced
- Specialists in the planning of complex, phased health care projects.
- Over 40 years of combined health care design excellence.
- We feature principal and associate level management.
- The majority of our clients utilize our services on a continuing basis.
- We have earned a solid reputation with State and Local Health Agencies.
- A full service team with a personal approach.
- We understand how your business works and will serve as a strategic planning partner.
- A reputation for bringing in projects on time and on budget.
- An integrated multidisciplinary design approach focusing on the total project.
- We offer project management as a value added service -- coordinating the efforts of a professional consulting team.
John W. Baumgarten Architect, P.C. and its senior staff have been specializing in the design of health care facilities for over 40 years. The overwhelming majority of this work has been in the New York metropolitan area and the surrounding suburban counties. The scope of these projects ranges from aesthetic refurbishments to major additions/modernizations and new buildings.
Our experience extends to the design of specialty care and service units which include: dialysis, adult day care, assisted living, pediatrics, ventilator/respiratory, dementia, Barriatric and sub-acute/short term rehabilitation.
Through our project work, John W. Baumgarten has established a solid working relationship with State and Local Health and Building Agencies.
Current project experience with Skilled Nursing “right sizing” projects has given us a unique perspective on the recent changes in the local regulatory environment. On these projects we have served as a strategic planning partner to our clients as well as being their architects. It is essential that the design team thoroughly understands the impact of the financing, logistics and phasing which drive the reconfiguration of a major facility or campus.
A further challenge has been containing the total project cost in an environment where material costs have skyrocketed, health agencies have frozen construction cost caps, facilities are being asked to contribute more equity and the sources of financing are becoming limited. Overlay the burden of potentially lengthy regulatory approvals on the project schedule and you are fighting the effects of time on your budget.
Our ability to help you navigate this process will have a positive effect on your project timeline and you will be assured that an “approvable solution” will be the result of the planning process.