AHA has been working with healthcare clients since the Company was founded in the early 1990’s and has extensive experience in medical office building and outpatient center project types including outpatient imaging centers (MRI, CT Scan, X-Ray) as well as considerable hospital experience. As a building performance consulting firm, AHA has healthcare facility MEP engineering services, fire protection engineering services, technology systems consulting including nurse call, energy modeling for buildings, energy and sustainability consulting, net zero building design consulting, decarbonization strategies for buildings consulting, indoor air quality consulting for buildings, retro-commissioning services, and building commissioning services to continue to deliver healthcare projects that meet our clients’ goals and needs.
Market Leaders
Joseph Philbrick, PE
Partner | Plumbing Director | Operations Director, Burlington
Location: Burlington, MA
Experience: 31 Years
Joined AHA: 2011
Fun Facts:
- I grew up in... Greenland, New Hampshire
- My favorite type of weather... I love snowy days
- My dream place to live... Anywhere in the Rocky Mountains
Jan Stuchlik, PE
Associate Partner | Technology Director
Location: Alpharetta, GA
Experience: 33 Years
Joined AHA: 2022
Fun Facts:
- I can’t live without… God, prayer, family, and friends
- My favorite quality in a person... Willingness to learn
- My professional goal/dream is... Coaching and mentoring the younger generations of engineers and designers
Related Projects
Atlanta, GA
Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta Scottish Rite
Atlanta, GA
The renovation and addition to this existing four-story patient bed hospital was built out of the existing fourth floor shell space into thirty new Pediatric Intensive Care (PICU) beds. This created a brand new fifth floor, which houses thirty new Hematology and Oncology (HEMOC) beds. Each floor includes nurses’ stations, laboratories, a pharmacy and patient family care areas.
AHA provided MEP/FP Design (including medical gas) and Technology Design services. The pinnacle of the project was maintaining acute care services on lower floors while raising the roof for the new 5th floor.
Massachusetts
Confidential Community Hospital
Massachusetts
AHA provided MEP/FP Design services on five projects including: an expansion of an existing 13 bed psychiatric Nursing Unit to 20 beds, the creation of an Emergency Department secure bed short-stay area, the creation of new Hybrid Operating Room, an MRI replacement, and renovations to the Radiology and Cashier Departments.
Murfreesboro, TN
Murfreesboro Medical Center
Murfreesboro, TN
This new, 148,000 SF, medical office building, located on the site of a regional hospital, has a central entrance with a three-story atrium with engineered smoke control. Practices occupying the facility include podiatry, pediatrics, bariatrics, and internal medicine.
AHA provided MEP/FP Design services for the core & shell and tenant interior improvement.
East Boston, MA
East Boston Neighborhood Health Clinic
East Boston, MA
This new, urban, 48,000 SF, build to suit medical office building includes dental, ophthalmic, and general medical spaces, administrative and executive offices, along with a server room.
AHA provided Mechanical and Electrical Design, LEED Administration, and Energy Modeling services.
Certifications
- LEED Gold NC
Kennesaw, GA
Children’s at Town Center
Kennesaw, GA
The new 50,000 SF three story medical office building includes a pediatric sports medicine practice, community gathering space, and a higher bay on the first level for a rehabilitation gym with climbing wall. The second floor will be occupied by a physician specialty practice and the third floor is programmed as warm dark shell only space.
AHA provided the MEP/FP Design services. These include a HVAC system with dedicated packaged roof top units for each occupied floor. Fan powered terminal units, variable air volume units, and dedicated split systems comprise the zoning provisions. Electrical distribution provides for high reliability service.
Zebulon, GA
Department of Veterans Affairs Outpatient Clinic
Zebulon, GA
This 59,000 SF single story new construction VA Community Based Outpatient Clinic includes imaging suites, optical, triage, counseling, examination, administrative, utility type spaces for public facilities, waiting, and equipment areas.
AHA provided Commissioning, Technology Design, and MEP/FP Design services. Our Technology Design included complete telecom and special systems design for the rack room layouts, cable tray, paging, nurse call, security, wireless access points, data and voice for the entire facility.
Healthcare Markets
- Medical Office Buildings
- Outpatient Centers
- Ambulatory Surgical Centers
- Senior Assisted Living Facilities
- Hospital Renovations and Additions
- Healthcare Facility MEP Engineering Services
Representative Clients
- Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta
- Children’s National Health System
- Department of Veterans Affairs
- East Boston Neighborhood Health Clinic
- Erlanger Health Systems
- Fresenius Medical Care
- Marcus Partners
- Murfreesboro Medical Clinics
- Piedmont Healthcare
- Premier Medical Center
- Pruitt Healthcare
- Saint Vincent Hospital
- Shields Healthcare
- Signature Healthcare












