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Scott & White Build Round Rock Diagnostic & Specialty Care Center
Scott & White, a Temple, Texas-based healthcare company, is planning the 77,000-sf Scott & White Center for Diagnostic and Specialty Care in Round Rock. The $27-million center will house 31 physicians specializing in gastroenterology, cardiology, orthopedics, ophthalmology, and general surgery. Construction is slated to begin in June of 2003 and reach completion in late 2004.
UTSA Establishes Vaccine Research Training Facility
The University of Texas at San Antonio has leased 8,000 sf in Brooks Building 175 at Brooks Air Force Base to house a vaccine research training facility. Preparing molecular biologists, fermentation technicians, and genetic engineers to conduct vaccine-related research, the facility is slated to open by fall of 2003. The training center will accommodate both UTSA and military graduate and undergraduate students. City officials hope that the training facility will cause San Antonio to be chosen as the site of a proposed $1.5-billion national vaccine center.
Centura Health Builds Parker Adventist Hospital
Centura Health has contracted Broomfield, Colo.-based Capstone Planning & Development to provide project cost controls and master schedules for the new Parker Adventist Hospital in Parker, Colo. The 200,000-sf, $55-million facility has a total project cost of $108-million and will combine the design and construction in a fast-track schedule.
Exempla Community Hospital Plans New Facility
Exempla Community Hospital has selected Broomfield, Colo.-based Capstone Planning & Control to provide independent cost estimation verification for a new hospital in Lafayette, Colo. The facility will be approximately 400,000 sf and have a construction cost of $130 million. Davis Partnership of Denver and HKS Architects of Dallas are working together to design the facility, and MA Mortenson/Saunders joint venture will be the CM/GC.
Littleton Adventist Hospital Expands
Littleton Adventist Hospital has selected Capstone Planning & Control of Broomfield, Colo., to provide project controls and master schedules for a 130,000-sf expansion. With related renovations on four levels of the existing hospital, the expansion will include a new emergency department, imaging, surgery, two new operating rooms, a 32-bed expansion to the obstetrics nursing and well baby recovery unit, a central plant addition, and related sitework including a new helipad.