McCarthy has completed construction on the Knapp Building Parking Structure, a $12.3 million facility located at Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital.
The five-level structure provides 532 parking stalls for hospital employees, while an adjoining surface lot comprises an additional 80 spaces. Designed by Parkitects, the parking structure mimics the California Mission architecture of nearby medical office buildings with plaster and clay tile roofing.
Located adjacent to a medical office building of the same name, the Knapp Building Parking Structure is also bordered on its three other sides by apartment buildings, a rehabilitation center and a parking lot. These constraints created logistical challenges for McCarthy’s team that required close coordination with the hospital staff, visitors and local residents.
McCarthy constructed the project with post-tensioned beams and long-span concrete floors for maximum load support. In addition, the construction of the Mission-style structure included a uniquely formed, saw-toothed feature at the perimeter concrete parapets.
The Knapp Building Parking Structure is the second parking facility that McCarthy has built on the campus as part of the hospital’s $550 million rebuilding campaign. The Pueblo Parking Structure, which opened in 2007, comprises four levels and 633 parking spaces for hospital visitors, volunteers, physicians and employees.
About McCarthy
McCarthy Building Companies, Inc. is one of the nation’s oldest and largest commercial construction companies and has been one of the leading parking structure builders since the advent of the modern parking structure in the 1960s. The company has delivered nearly 400 parking facilities throughout the United States, with parking spaces for more than 70,000 cars in California alone. The firm offers general contracting, construction management, program management and design/build services for parking structures; healthcare, educational, mixed-use, laboratory, biotechnical, retail, entertainment, industrial, multifamily and microelectronics facilities; green buildings; office buildings; tenant interiors; and bridges and highways. McCarthy is 100 percent employee owned. More information about the company is available online at www.mccarthy.com.
