Trihydro Engineers Site Design for Ivinson Memorial Hospital Foundation Guest House
In a recent project, Trihydro oversaw the site design for the Foundation Guest House for Ivinson Memorial Hospital (IMH). Construction for the guesthouse began on Monday, October 31, 2011.
Located at 26th and Sheridan, the six-room guesthouse (including two rooms that will be handicapped accessible) will provide a place for out-of-county IMH patients and their families to stay while they are receiving treatment in the hospital. The project includes space for a possible addition of another six rooms in the future.
“It’s a good start and what it does is it fills the gap that currently exists (for) people who either for whatever reason can’t afford or don’t want to stay in a hotel and come from other places to use the services, or their family members are using the services of the hospitals,” Paul Greaser, IMH foundation member, said. “As an example, we heard today about a couple from a corner in our county and one member for the family had to come here for cancer treatment and couldn’t drive home every day, it’s too far, and yet couldn’t afford a hotel room. So, they were actually sleeping last winter in their truck in order to be available next day for cancer treatment. So that’s the kind of person who will be really helped by this situation.”
Spiegelberg Lumber and Building, a family-owned Laramie-based company, will be the contractor for the project. Emory Spiegelberg, co-owner of the company, said all construction will be done by Laramie companies. Tile for the project is donated by the Lincoln Community Center, Spiegelberg said.
“I think in total there will be well over 100 different people working on this project from different trades and skills,” Greaser said.
Including the design, construction of the 4,150 square-foot building will cost under $1 million and will be paid for with the money the IMH Foundation raised in the previous years. IMH Foundation has been planning for a guesthouse for the past 10 years, Paul Schierer, IMH Foundation member, said.
IMH will own and operate the guesthouse when it’s completed in June. The cost of staying in the guesthouse will be affordable to everyone, Jim Hook, IMH foundation member and chair of the fundraising campaign for the guesthouse, said.
“Those who can pay will receive a reduced rate and those that cannot pay will not be turned away,” he said. “In the last two years … more than 150 people came from the Saratoga-Rawlins area. It’s a regional hospital that accommodates the entire area; 30 percent of the patients here are out of the Albany County (area).”
Article Source: Laramie Boomerang