Veterans Affairs Health Resources Center Renovation

WSKF Architects led a team to assess and make recommendations for the 52,000-square-foot facility in Topeka that houses a 600-employee call center serving veterans nationally. The scope of work spans fact finding, working with facility leadership and assessing current space, work spaces, adjacencies, and other elements to arrive at space utilization recommendations and alternatives. Following completion of the space planning project, WSKF led a large team (Civil, Structural, MEP, IT/Voice Data Network Specialists, Hazardous Materials, Estimating) in developing a design for renovation of the HRC. The scope of work includes preparation of construction documents and construction administration. The project is a large-scale redesign of the entire interior of the 52,000-SF U.S. Dept of Veterans Affairs HRC to make it more functional and productive for the call center staff of 600. In addition to the interior redesign, the project includes MEP upgrades, energy efficiency upgrades, acoustics, new phone and data wiring, an upgraded fire alarm system and modifications to the sprinkler system.