Lee Building & 4th Avenue Parking Deck Project Receives AIA Alabama’s Excellence in Design Award
BIRMINGHAM, Alabama, May 20, 2020 – SSOE Group (www.ssoe.com), a global project delivery firm for architecture, engineering, and construction management, is proud to announce that one of their projects has recently been recognized as a 2020 Excellence in Design Award Winner by the American Institute of Architects (AIA) Alabama. The Children’s Hospital of Alabama Lee Building and 4th Avenue Parking Deck won an AIA Alabama Excellence in Design Honor Award.
The firm teamed with Williams Blackstock Architects on this project. SSOE provided electrical, security, and voice / data engineering services for the Children’s Hospital of Alabama’s new 120,000 SF, 11-story parking deck with 1,480 spaces, and a 5-story Lee office building. The primary goal of the parking structure was to relieve the parking congestion on campus and allow for future expansion opportunities. The new structure is connected via a pedestrian bridge to Children’s existing Park Place building on 4th Avenue South and connects the new medical office building to the entire campus.
SSOE’s scope for this project included electrical service entrance / utility coordination, interior power distribution, standby power system, interior lighting, central grounding system, voice / data structured premise cabling, overhead paging, wireless network distribution system, audio-video presentation system, intercom system, access control, video surveillance, detention system: monitoring / control and fire detection / alarm.
Children’s is one of SSOE’s longest and largest healthcare clients. They are ranked among the best pediatric medical centers in the U.S. and with over 3.6 million SF, it’s one of the largest pediatric medical facilities in the U.S. SSOE’s Senior Account Executive and Birmingham, Alabama office manager, David Huddleston serves as the main point of contact for Children’s of Alabama. He said, “We work with Children’s of Alabama on a daily basis, utilizing five full-time staff. Some projects have been going on for over 10 years. We’re deeply engrained with the client and even spend a few days a week at their site. At the heart of all of our work, we aim to help our client create the best environment for kids to receive treatment.”
SSOE has nearly 40 years of experience executing projects in the Southeast U.S. for clients in the healthcare, education, commercial, and industrial sectors—most recently for BMW, Honda, BOCAR, Encompass Health, among many others. SSOE currently has four Southeast U.S. offices, Atlanta, Birmingham, Huntsville, and Nashville, as well as nearly 20 additional SSOE offices across the U.S. and in Mexico, China, and India. SSOE has been named a Top Engineering Firm by the Birmingham Business Journal for five consecutive years. The List ranks the top 25 engineering firms based on the total number of local licensed professional engineers.
