Industry News

University of California Davis has recently completed the Activities and Recreation Center (ARC) in Davis, Calif. Constructed by McCarthy, the facility combines a variety of different uses, supporting the latest trends in student activity and recreation. Designed by Cannon Design of Westwood, Calif., the 155,000-sf ARC houses a conference center, student union, fitness club, and other amenities. Total construction cost for the project was approximately $31 million.

Kaiser Permanente is engaged is construction of the new 1,002,528-sf Downey Medical Center and parking structure in Downey, Calif. Constructed by McCarthy, the facility will replace the hospital portion of the existing Kaiser Permanente Bellflower Medical Center, which will be converted to an outpatient facility. Being built in accordance with state seismic requirements, the 352-bed, full-service hospital will include inpatient and outpatient services and will house 82 departments as well as an 85-room emergency department.

Rice University recently completed a 3,000-sf renovation/remodeling project on its Houston campus to create the Nanofabrication/Cleanroom Lab Facility in Abercrombie Hall. Constructed by McCarthy, the new facility is comprised of Class 100 and Class 1000 cleanrooms, office, and lab support space. It will provide researchers with the clean-air environment needed to study minute mechanisms the size of only a few atoms.

The $42-million Lakewood Ranch Medical Center in Bradenton, Fla., recently admitted its first patients. The 3-story, 120-bed facility houses a women's center with labor/delivery rooms, ER and intensive care units, and a surgery center with five OR suites. Three feet of structural fill over the site's 180,000-sf footprint needed to be placed and graded before construction began. The project architect was HKS of Dallas with McCarthy as general contractor.

Kaiser Permanente is planning a $68.45-million expansion of its Moanalua Medical Center in Hawaii. A five-story, 176,000-sf tower will be constructed, and 95,000 sf of existing space in the inpatient medical center will be renovated. The expansion will add five urgent care rooms, eight operating rooms, six emergency rooms, and 68 new acute-care beds.