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SMRT to Provide Healthcare Engineering for New Vermont State Psychiatric Hospital

Built in 1890, the outdated Vermont State Hospital will be replaced. SMRT will provide full service healthcare engineering for the new hospital. Flood damage from Tropical Storm Irene closed the historic Vermont State Hospital in late August 2011. SMRT will provide engineering services for the replacement hospital. (AP photo)

SMRT will provide full service healthcare engineering for the design of a new state psychiatric hospital to be located in Berlin, Vermont.  SMRT’s medical facilities engineering team will design the structural, mechanical, electrical, plumbing and fire protection engineering.  The building’s systems will be engineered to optimize energy efficiency and operational savings. SMRT is teamed with architecture+ of Troy, New York, to replace the former Vermont State Hospital in Waterbury, closed last summer due to flooding by Tropical Storm Irene.  In announcing plans to move forward with the replacement mental health hospital, Vermont Governor Peter Shumlin said, “We are bound and determined to rebuild Vermont better than Irene found us in every way, and that includes our mental health delivery system.”

Built in 1890, the outdated Vermont State Hospital will be replaced. SMRT will provide full service healthcare engineering for the new hospital. Flood damage from Tropical Storm Irene closed the historic Vermont State Hospital in late August 2011. SMRT will provide engineering services for the replacement hospital. (AP photo)

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