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Brigham and Women’s Hospital Hale Building for Transformative Medicine: A Powerful and Magnetic Approach

Jason Seaburg

July 13, 2021

A modern glass office building with illuminated windows at dusk, featuring a skywalk connecting it to another structure above a city street with some cars and pedestrians.

Brigham and Women’s Hospital, one of the top healthcare institutions in the world, had secured a powerful 7T MRI for its new Hale Building for Transformative Medicine. Because of the leading-edge nature of the machine—about to be one of only two in the world approved for clinical use—BWH had not yet received regulatory clearance for use of the MRI when Suffolk was building the MRI room and adjoining spaces. Once the imaging equipment was delivered, Suffolk had to be ready to install this highly innovative, highly sensitive technology and still meet expectations for building turnover and occupancy.

 

Click here to access a white paper outlining how exactly we did it!