GRAEF-USA Inc.

St. Catherine's Hospital, Replacement Hospital

The owner’s goal was to construct a full-service, replacement hospital for the aging St. Catherine’s Hospital located in Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin. The 146,000-square-foot, two-story facility is located on an undeveloped 50-acre site.

GRAEF provided site/civil engineering and landscape architecture design on this project.

Site/Civil Engineering
GRAEF prepared a site master plan for the project, which included evaluating numerous site alternatives. The final site plan included requirements for the hospital building, public access, parking for 700 cars, and utility infrastructure. Earthwork was a critical component of the design, with the goal of minimizing costs by balancing the site.

The hospital site is adjacent to STH 50 in the Village of Pleasant Prairie, requiring plan review by the Wisconsin Department of Transportation under Trans 233. GRAEF worked closely with WisDOT to evaluate access issues and traffic impacts to the highway from the development, while maintaining the project schedule.

GRAEF also prepared plans for the Village of Pleasant Prairie for construction of a public road extension and public utilities to serve the hospital site. GRAEF prepared the public easements and a certified survey map dedicating new right-of-way to the Village for the public road and utilities.

Design of the proposed hospital site included a number of unique challenges. A new private main sanitary sewer was designed to serve the site and connect to a Village interceptor sewer. An extensive storm sewer system was designed to collect and convey storm water runoff to an existing storm water detention facility in the development. A water distribution and fire protection system was designed to meet the strict requirements of the Village’s Fire Department. GAS also designed and submitted permit applications to the State and FAA for construction of a new heliport adjacent to the hospital building.

Landscape Architecture
GRAEF landscape architects provided a wide variety of design services for the new St. Catherine’s Hospital and it’s 50-acre site. The entire is planted with native, seasonally dynamic plant material, maintained by an extensive irrigation system. The finished grades of the perimeter of the site were sculpted and bermed, functioning to screen the hospital from traffic as well as create an aesthetically pleasing view for hospital patients. Over 75 mature trees were relocated from the previous hospital site to create an instant park-like setting for the new facility as well as save valuable trees from demolition.

GRAEF landscape architects designed an exterior healing and meditation garden, which incorporates historic religious statuary into a private and serene garden setting for the cancer patients. Within the hospital, GAS also designed an outdoor courtyard to be used by hospital staff and patients’ visitors. The space contains flexible seating, colored paving, and unique plant material. The space is a distinctive outdoor oasis in the center of the facility.

Within the hospital, GRAEF landscape architects helped to design and provided the planting plans of an extensive interior atrium. The goal of the planting design was to enhance the overall aesthetics, and improve the therapeutic quality of views to the atrium from interior patient rooms.
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LOCATION Pleasant Prairie, WI