The new six-level parking structure at ChristianaCare in Wilmington, Delaware, is not a typical garage. In addition to housing more than 800 cars, the structure has a separate medical office building nestled within its confines.

ChristianaCare selected a total precast concrete system because it offered a cost-competitive superstructure, speed of erection, and the ability to coordinate construction of the parking structure with that of the steel-framed medical office building within the garage’s footprint. With precast concrete’s front-loaded design, many of key project decisions were made early. That enabled the project team to develop how to encapsulate the medical office facility as a building within a building. Visitors and patients with impaired mobility benefited from the garage’s “flat-plate” design.

In the latest case study from the PCI Mid-Atlantic Chapter, see how building with a total precast concrete system met exacting construction coordination in a busy downtown urban environment.