Photo Credit: Harold Shapiro, Yale University
Shawmut, in partnership with architect firm Svigals + Partners, completed a renovation and expansion of Yale School of Nursing’s Simulation Lab. The new 8,000-square-foot space includes high-tech, interactive classrooms, assessment lab, exam rooms, and updates to the Center for Biobehavioral Health Research and first floor café.
Excerpt from School Construction News
Yale School of Nursing students will now gain real life experience with the school’s new high-tech teaching space following the completion of its new Simulation Lab and classroom expansion project.
The $5 million project, led by Svigals + Partners with construction manager Shawmut Design and Construction, transformed the space in less than one year, just in time for the fall semester’s start.
The Yale School of Nursing sought an expansion of the existing program to integrate the latest technology and include a wider range of simulated environments as well as expanding curricular offerings by utilizing comprehensive teaching modalities.
According to Ann Kurth, dean of Yale School of Nursing, the new, state-of-the-art teaching spaces are designed to help prepare future Yale nurses to address where health care is going—including outpatient, disaster, and telehealth care.
The full scope of the project includes nearly 8,000 square feet of newly designed space; with an enlargement of the Simulation Lab, nearly double the size of the previous facility.
The design includes two new classrooms, a primary care assessment lab, six standardized patient exam rooms, two new debrief rooms, the addition of high-tech observation and control rooms, student and faculty work stations, a 500-square-foot, one-bedroom apartment for home care simulation as well as updates to the Center for Biobehavioral Health Research and first floor café.
Under this design, the expansion offers both new and realistic primary care and home care settings; used for the high-fidelity simulations featured in the curriculum.