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PET/CT WINS GOLD!

Montgomery County Advanced Medical Imaging and Abington Hospital PET/CT facility, recently completed, has received a coveted United States Green Building Council LEED GOLD certification.  This certification distinguishes the new PET/CT facility as a project designed and constructed to the highest environmental standards and recognizes it as an outstanding achievement.  AHAdams&Company is proud of our contribution to this project and commends Dr. Paul O’Moore, President of Montgomery County Advanced Medical Imaging and Angel Fatz the PET/CT Manager, George Felici, LEED AP, Freedom Enterprise, Incorporated (contractor), Shannon Kaplan, PE, AKF Engineering, and John Zabilowicz, PE, Z&F Consulting Engineers, Richard Palmer and Elizabeth Emig at AHAdams&Company for assistance.  We want to extend a generous thank you! to Dr. Paul O’Moore for his vision to establish this environmental goal and supporting this achievement. AHAdams&Company would like to extent a thank you to the entire project team for their commitment to see beyond the horizon and improve the quality of the environment for us all..

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PET/CT Gets Published

The recently completed PET/CT (Positron emission tomography (PET) and computed tomography (CT)) suite designed by AHAdams&Company was a included as a sustainable health care project in the March issue of gb&d (Green Building & Design)  http://gbdmagazine.com/2011/02/march-2011/ (pages 103 /104)

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Settlement Music School

Recently completed the Settlement Music School is up and running (and our newest neighbor) here in Willow Grove.  The oldest continuously operating Music School in the United States Settlement Music School was full operational in January 2011.  The three story building (25,000 gsf) will provide for new music classrooms, office and administration spaces, and a three hundred seat recital hall.  Settlement Music School expects this new facility will accommodate over 1,000 students by 2013.  AHAdams&Company provided technical consulting services for design development and construction documentation for the new Settlement Music School.  From initial design concepts AHAdams&Company developed the necessary acoustical performance requirements and worked with the acoustical consultant to integrate construction assemblies and optimize building systems to achieve the goal of undistorted musicial sound quality as part of the overall building performance requirements.  The design architect and Settlement Music School Board member George von Scheven, was also Arthur Hall Adams teacher as an undergraduate in the architecture program at Drexel University.

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Spectrum Health Services Receives $1 Million for New Haddington Health Center

Pennsylvania State Representative Vanessa Lowery Brown has come to be a passionate advocate for her constituents when it comes to navigating the funding process at the state level.  She successfully delivered $2 million in economic development funds to key projects in her Philadelphia legislative district.  Of that, $1 million is being appropriated to expand the Haddington Health Center, presently located at 5619 Vine Street in West Philadelphia.  AHAdams&Company is proud to be the Architect for the New Haddington Health Center to be located at 52nd and Haverford Avenue in West Philadelphia.  AHAdams&Company has been working closely with Spectrum Health Services, Inc., a nonprofit community health agency providing comprehensive primary care health services, health education, behavioral health, and social services to residents in West Philadelphia.  The increased capacity to provide programs and services in the New Haddington Health Center site will enable Spectrum Health to serve over 26,000 patients and provide over 60,000 visits by the end of year 2014 in a more productive, environmentally responsible, and patient-centered environment.  Spectrum Health Services’ Haddington Health Center has been an anchor institution in West Philadelphia for 26 years.  To expand and serve its growing client base, the New Haddington Health Center will soon begin construction, with completion scheduled for the Spring of 2011.

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