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Running head: CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECT PLAN

Capital Improvement Project Plan in Texas University Medical College

Introduction

The vision and mission of Texas University Medical College revolve around continually improving the quality of healthcare available for the community and beyond. The institution, however, suffered a great deal when a hurricane hit it and destroyed some of the buildings. Its future in achieving its mission and vision was put into question when this natural disaster stuck. Other major community development projects that the institution was participating also suffered as a result of this disaster, as the institution had to cut its participation so as to stabilize itself. The destructions on the building included the flooding of the bigger part of the institution, causing the damage of electrical, water, gas, and sewer systems of the institutions. This robust Capital Improvement Plan seeks to provide innovative solutions and support for the institution to remain resilient at this time and continue to provide its mission and vision to the community. The institution aims to commence reconstruction of a campus that is resilient enough to withstand any weather events through understanding the risks involved, finding different solutions for any weaknesses in the plan, and continually managing operations to know when they have been disrupted.

Project Scope

The scope of this project includes rebuilding the different systems and building in the institution that were affected by the hurricane, with the goal of making the institution resilient to any weather conditions. The project also aims to ensure that all the critical systems within the facility have been mitigated. The facility buildings and systems also have to be hardened and shielded from any future risks of floods, through installing the dry flood proofing. The plan also suggests that the walkways in the institution are elevated, and the corridors waterproofed to shield people using these facilities in case a weather event causes floods in the institution. To protect the institution's water systems, the plan suggests replacing the steam distribution with a hot water distribution system to reduce any risks. It also suggests that the chill water distribution is replaced. Further, the plan also recommends that the institution’s infrastructure controls and elevators above 20 feet from the ground, to prevent the destruction of these very vital controls in the event of floods. A dedicated water supply main line also ought to be installed, along with a water reserve tank of more than a million liters. New pipes that are for being buried also ought to be buried in waterproof enclosures so that they remain safe from water, whether or not it floods. Submersible valves also ought to be used to shield the water systems in the institution. The gas system only requires that a dedicated gas main to the institution is installed.

Organizational Culture and Leadership

The vision and mission of Texas University Medical College revolve around improving the quality of healthcare available for the community and beyond. The organizational culture at this institution insists on shared on shared attitudes, values, assumptions and beliefs that push the staff of the organization to seek to ensure the world only gets quality healthcare. The leadership of the organization has put together this capital improvement plan to ensure the vision and mission of the institution are achieved, and the institution continually improves the quality of healthcare for the community and beyond. The leadership of the institution has also put together numerous protocols and systems, to optimize how the project work is going to be completed and for ease of communication. These systems and protocols will also come in handy in the event that there are any security issues in the course of the project.

For this particular project, the project teams will be divided into smaller groups depending on the type of building, infrastructure, research, administration, research, and healthcare. This allowed the project leadership to contract other experts and professionals that are best suited for each project. This allowed efforts in the specific projects to be focused towards a creation of a better-optimized work and made communication among the members of the different teams easier. This means that the leadership of the institution had the ability to control the different projects independently, ensuring the achievement of the different timelines and deliverables. It also encouraged the team members to work together that collaboratively as guided by the mutual goals and objectives of the different groups. It was also the best strategy to ensure security at the site was maintained and that the OSHA standards were met for the protection of each and every of the workers on site (Schein 2010).

Benefits of the Project

Texas University Medical College is an institution that aims to continually improve the quality of healthcare for the community and beyond it. For this reason, the institution is very intimately involved in its immediate community. The effects of the hurricane and its destruction of the institution were for this equally felt by the immediate community, as some of the community services provided by the institution had to be cut short after the hurricane occurred. For this reason, the rebuilding of the institution will first and foremost be beneficial to the community as the services offered will resume. For instance, this reconstruction of the institution entails the construction of a fully fledged hospital, where training doctors can interact with real patients to facilitate their training. The hospital is expected to be a great asset to the immediate community and the state of Texas at large, as the hospital will offer world class and state of the art care for training professionals to provide quality care.

In addition, this project of rebuilding the institutions will provide employment to hundreds of unemployed people, as the reconstruction will include the reconstruction of buildings, infrastructure, and even water and gas systems. This will also have a great economic advantage on the immediate community in the institution, as well as the state of Texas by extension. The local businesses will be promoted during the construction as well, and the economic power of the community and the state at large will have changed. Companies in different fields will also be contracted to do some of the work required for the reconstruction, promoting local businesses economically.

The reconstruction will also see to it that the facilities fitted into the new institution employ the best technologies for the provision of world-class education. In a world that is rapidly changing due to the ever increasing advances in technology. The students who attend the facility will receive very high-quality education in medical fields, guaranteeing the achievement of the institution's goal to continually improve the quality of healthcare in the community and beyond. New facilities and clinic wings will also be constructed in this project, giving the institution a wider variety of assets and services to provide for the students and the community.

Risks of the Project

The following are the risks that are involved in reconstructing the institution after the effects of the Hurricane

• A stronger flood could happen and sweep the institution away as the area has experienced yet another hurricane.

• The weather events, in the modern day, are extremely unpredictable as a result of global warming, making it difficult to predict future weather events.

• The quality of work by the contractors could fail to meet the expected standard

• The project could fail to be completed within the expected time

• The costs of refurbishing the institution could exceed the benefits expected from the project rendering it economically not feasible (Follet, 1994).

Reasons for Reconstructing the Institution

Before the hurricane occurred, the institution was one of the best medical colleges in the state of Texas, and the effects of the hurricane have really negatively affected the community of the institution, its students, staff, and the medical fraternity in Texas at large. These stakeholders of the institution are the main reason why the project to rebuild and reconstruct the institution after the hurricane had occurred. First and foremost, the institution had a number of students pursuing different degrees in the very diverse medical field. When the hurricane occurred and destroyed the institution, their futures were left pending as there was no certainty that the institution would be reconstructed. These students and their future contribution to the industry is what has inspired the leadership of the institution to rebuild the institution and make it even better.

Secondly, the institution was a workplace for hundreds of members of staff, who supported their family with the earnings they made from working at Texas University Medical College. These hardworking men and women may have lost hope when the institution was destroyed by the hurricane, rendering their workplace a nothing. Without rebuilding the institution, these people will have lost their jobs, and that would have very negative effect on the economy of the local community and Texas at large. Instead, reconstructing the institution will not only assure the staff of the institution their jobs back, but it will also encourage the employment of more people who will participate in the actual reconstruction of the college. In addition, more facilities will be constructed, meaning that different fields of experts will be contracted to reconstruct the entire institution and its facilities.

The medical fraternity also needs an institution to continue training interested individuals in the wide variety of medical fields, so as to assure the community and beyond it the availability of quality healthcare. The institution also conducted a number of researches that would be beneficial for the future of the medical field, and for this reason, the rebuilding of the institution would be beneficial for the medical fraternity. There are professionals in the institutions who were conducting researches that are beneficial for the advancement of medical inventions. The rebuilding of the institution will provide these researchers with the right facilities and technologies to advance their researches for the benefit of the medical fraternity at large.

Finally, the community will also benefit from the medical facilities that will come along with new refurbished and reconstructed institution. The reconstructed institution will also come with a new world-class hospital fitted the newest technology machinery, so as to facilitate training and research in the medical field. While the main reason for the hospital’s construction will be to facilitate the training and research in the different medical fields, it will also provide medical care to the patients from around the hospital's community. In so doing, it will provide service to the community, and mutually benefit the training and research with a good environment to practice. The students, for instance, will have the opportunity to learn in the same environment as the field, encouraging good ethical practices and understanding the real working environment.

Method

Hospital Construction

This facility will be a 20 story building fitted with state of the art equipment and infrastructure. It will also have a very high bed capacity to make the facility a fully functioning hospital that facilitates training and research to guarantee advances in the medical field. The construction of this facility is expected to last a duration of 12 months and cost a budget of up to $260 million. The facility will provide quality healthcare for patients from the surrounding communities in Texas, generating the institution revenue to finance research or even support the running of the institution. The hospital will also be a great asset to the people of Texas and the students of the institution, allowing the students to learn in a world-class environment.

Construction of New College Facilities

The refurbishment of the hospital is aimed at making the institution better for the sake of facilitating training and research in the medical field so that the institution continues to meet its goal and objectives. The major goals and objectives of the institution revolve around continually improving the quality of healthcare in the community and beyond it. For this reason, the institution is construction more facilities than it had to promote research and training that will promote the improvement of the quality of care provided in the medical field. For instance, the institution will construct a number of new laboratories to encourage the students and researchers in the institution to make advancements in the medical profession. It will also lead to a reorganization of the facilities to a more organized spatial structure that encourages productivity.

Expansion of the Institution’s Research Buildings

Due to the fact that the institution's goal is aimed at continually improving the quality of care, the institution’s leadership has found it necessary to expand the research facilities of the institution. This will promote the institution’s ability to facilitate training and research for advancements in the medical field. The facility will also be fitted with top-notch technologies and infrastructure to support intense research and learning activities. This will then positively contribute to the institution’s need to continually improve the quality of care in the institution. The research facility will also include very innovative designs to stimulate the innovativeness of the professionals, staff, and students to do everything in their power to innovate solutions that continually improve the quality of care provided to patients. The research facilities are designed to meet the necessary research needs in the medical field, to provide a resilient facility that is able to protect the research works against calamities like hurricanes.

Team Selection

The method for ensuring that the different deliverables are met before the deadlines have been exceeded includes dividing the entire projects (Portny, 2010). For this particular project, the project teams will be divided into smaller groups depending on the type of building, infrastructure, research, administration, research, and healthcare. The leadership, therefore, allowed the small groups to work together with contracted professionals in each of the different fields allowing all the members of the teams to work with one focus in their minds. The effect of a team working together with their minds focused on one common goal is that the quality of work generated is usually optimal and the communication between members is clear and concise. It also allowed the leadership of the institution to easily control the actions of the different groups. This also enabled the leadership to ensure that the deliverables are made available within the expected timelines. This method of dividing responsibility also allows the members of different teams to work together collaboratively while they are guided by the same goals and objectives. It also guarantees the safety of the workers in different teams while at the project site as is specified by the OSHA standards.

Project Closure

After the occurrence of the hurricane that destroyed the Texas University Medical College, there are a few lessons that have been learned that need to be considered in the rebuilding project. The first of these lessons is to document the existing conditions on the buildings and infrastructure so as to plan for disasters whether or not they are expected. It is also important to put in place a disaster management of plan after the reconstruction is over, in case another disaster takes place. This will ensure the safety of all those in the institution in the event that disaster strikes. It is also of key importance to address the known weaknesses of the disaster before any risks occur. Protocols and communication systems also have to work and up to date so that lives and property are protected even when a disaster strikes.

Capital Budget

Conclusion

After the hurricane occurred in Texas and destroyed the building and infrastructure of Texas University Medical College, the leadership of the institution decided to reconstruct the institution. The reconstruction would not only replace the building and infrastructure that was destroyed, but it will also make the institution better in its facilitation of training and research in the medical field. The project will include the construction of a hospital, refurbishment of the infrastructure, construction of new college facilities, as well as expanding research buildings. The project is valued at $1. 31 Billion and will benefit the staff, student, immediate community and the medical fraternity in Texas.

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