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The California Department of Health Services is nearing completion of its Richmond, Calif., complex. Construction manager McCarthy has guided the project's two phases, totaling more than 475,000-sf of offices, life sciences laboratories, animal facilities and warehousing space. The largest non-design-build project ever undertaken by the State of California, the $130-million project completes in January 2003 after a 4-year construction schedule.

Sentara Healthcare is nearing completion of its $61-million, 5-story replacement hospital. The facility will contain 200 beds (194 licensed) spread over 338,000 sf of new construction, and is one of the first in the nation to include a wireless phone and data backbone PACs along with an e-ICU and all "smart" operating rooms. Additional work included the relocation of the facility's central utility plant and renovation of the existing 32,000-sf outpatient clinic.

Spring Valley Hospital is under construction in Las Vegas. The $45-million, 310,000-sf facility is being built by contractor McCarthy using a combination of pre-cast and cast-in-place concrete. Designed by architect HKS of Dallas, the 176-bed hospital features a one-story diagnostic and treatment center housing ambulatory surgery services, radiology, and surgical and emergency suites. The facility is slated for completion in fall 2003.

Piedmont Triad Research Park at Wake Forest University School of Medicine in Winston-Salem is slated to become a growing biotech incubator. Expanding the 10-acre park into a 180-acre biotech complex, the development will extend North Carolina's biotechnology corridor to the western portion of the state. The Piedmont incubator is being designed by Sasaki Associates, a firm based in Watertown, Mass., with an additional office in San Francisco. 

Construction of the new Norfolk Cancer Center in Brockton has been completed by East Coast Commercial Construction. The facility is one of the few stand-alone cancer centers in the South Shore area.