Grumman/Butkus Associates’ (G/BA’s) engineering team recently played a pivotal role in a once-in-a-lifetime project: Turning the shuttered Westlake Hospital in Melrose Park, Illinois, into a 430-bed COVID-19 surge response facility in less than a month.
“It was a job we’ll be talking about for our entire lives,” said Joe Ficek, associate, G/BA, who led the plumbing and fire protection response.