530
Cost Base: General
Only three of the hospitals could be characterized as high rise - those at
Miami, Memphis and Atlanta. Of these, the Atlanta hospital has a steel
structural frame; the others are concrete. The Washington VA hospital,
the Watsonville community hospital and the Martinez VA hospital are four-
to five-story concrete frame buildings, all of flat slab (plate) construction.
531.3
COST PARAMETERS
All costs stated in the Cost Base are given in dollars per outside gross
square foot (OGSF) of either total building area or functional area, as
appropriate. They are based on typical costs prevailing in the San
Francisco area at a time when the national ENR Building Cost Index was
960. They include overhead and profit for both general contractors and
subcontractors, and thus represent the proportionate part of the general
contract paid by the VA for each item.
531.4
BASIC CONSTRUCTION COST
The average total contract for the six hospitals analyzed was .60 per
OGSF. This figure is used in the Cost and Time Analysis (Section 750), to
represent the typical cost of VA hospitals using conventional design and
construction.
531.5
SUBSYSTEM COSTS
The six integrated subsystem together, in every instance, represent about
50% of the total construction cost of the buildings. The distribution of
costs within them varies considerably with the design approach
incorporated. The relative costs of the subsystems for each building are
shown on Table 530-1. The scope of each subsystem represented by the
data is given in the corresponding subsystem description in Section 300 of
the Design Manual.
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