GLY Construction (GLY), an employee-owned general contracting firm, announced today the project team’s plan to install a three-level, robotic, space-saving parking garage beneath the upcoming addition to the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance (SCCA) clinic in Seattle’s South Lake Union neighborhood. The robotic garage will be the first of its kind for any medical center in the Puget Sound Region and the first of its size and scale on the West Coast.
The innovative design and parking experience address both infrastructure and patient needs. The garage will be built under a long, narrow 240,000 square foot, five-story complex that GLY is also constructing for SCCA. Considering the narrow space and usage from primarily cancer patients and families, GLY explored options that would make the parking experience easier for patients, while also maximizing space.
Patients will be able to drop their vehicle off at a centralized valet who then transports the cars to one of the garage’s six stories with robotic lifts and platforms that shift cars vertically and horizontally until they reach a designated spot.
This efficient system will be able to park cars closer together than traditional parking spaces, with about 160-180 spots in total, while reducing the time and hassle of patients getting in and out of small, cramped, ramp-filled garages.
The garage is intended to be flexible for future use, as it can be disassembled and reshaped for different uses to accommodate needs for future services.
GLY has partnered with parking system manufacturer WÖHR and subcontractor Harding Steel to build the WÖHR Multiparker 730 system.
