NYU Langone Medical Center will invest $180 million over the next four years to build a healthcare facility in the Cobble Hill neighborhood of Brooklyn in New York City. The 160,000-sf project will include a 24-hour freestanding emergency department, a cancer center, and clinical space for medical specialties and outpatient care. Completion is expected in 2018.
The University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) has crafted a decision-making framework based on objective standards to identify and pursue the highest priorities in a massive building boom that has roughly 95 projects valued from $10,000 to $450 million currently under construction. While a large part of that activity stems from the university’s long-range master plan, a significant portion was necessitated by the devastation of Hurricane Ike, which took 1.2 million sf of the medical school’s Galveston campus out of service in 2008.
The National University of Ireland Galway began construction in January of 2015 on the 88,000-sf Human Biology Building. Designed by Scott Talon Walker Architects, the five-story teaching and research facility will provide labs, lecture halls, and offices for the departments of anatomy, physiology, and pharmacology. The Human Biology Building will also include a vivarium, a microscopy suite, and anatomy and mortuary space. The construction cost of the project is $34 million and the general contractor is BAM Group Ireland.
UF Health Shands Hospital broke ground on a $415 million expansion in January of 2015. The eight-story, 500,000-sf facility was designed by Flad Architects as two connecting towers providing 120 heart and vascular beds and 96 neuromedicine beds in private patient rooms. The project team includes Skanska USA and Affiliated Engineers, Inc. Completion is expected in 2018.
Bay Path University opened the $13.7 million Philip H. Ryan Health Science Center in January of 2015 in East Longmeadow, Mass. The two-story, 58,000-sf facility provides simulation training labs, technology-rich classrooms, faculty offices, conference rooms, collaborative learning areas, group study rooms, a library, and a model apartment for instruction in occupational therapy. General contractor Crocker Builders began construction on the facility in November of 2013.
Coventry University will begin construction in mid-2015 on a $50 million facility for the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences in the United Kingdom. The five-story multidisciplinary building will provide classrooms, simulation suites for medical training, science labs, and core research space. The 121,200-gsf (75,500-nsf) project will be built by BAM Construction. Completion is expected by fall of 2017.
The University of San Diego is building the $18 million Betty & Bob Beyster Institute for Nursing Research, Advanced Practice, and Simulation. Ground was broken on the three-story, 30,000-sf building in May of 2014 and completion is expected in fall of 2015. Designed by gkkworks in association with The S/L/A/M Collaborative, the facility will house classrooms, faculty offices, three research units, the Dickinson Simulation and Standardized Patient Nursing Center, and the Krause Doctoral Research Library and Study.
Penn Medicine is planning to build a 700-bed medical complex for the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (HUP) in Philadelphia. Designed by Foster + Partners of London in association with HDR, the $1.5 billion project will include an inpatient tower, 50 operating rooms, clinical space, and an emergency department. The facility will be built by Balfour Beatty Construction and L.F. Driscoll at a cost of $1.2 billion.
The renovated OB-GYN academic offices at Boston’s Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) eliminate private offices in favor of shared desks and open concept space, to accommodate a planned 20 percent staff increase while decreasing total departmental square footage. The department, which previously housed about 80 people in 14,000 sf, can now accommodate 106 people in 13,000 sf. The gut-and-rebuild also improves ADA compliance for the 1950s building and provides more natural light and collaborative space.
Sanford Health is building the $500 million Fargo Medical Center in North Dakota. Designed by HKS Architects of Dallas, the 11-story, 384-bed hospital will provide cardiac care, women's health, pediatrics, orthopedics, and neurosurgery. The 1.2 million-sf facility will also include a 51-bay emergency department, 32 operating rooms, a trauma center, and adult and pediatric intensive care units. Mortenson Construction was awarded a $340 million contract to build the facility and work began on the project in summer of 2012.
Norton Women's and Kosair Children's Hospital opened its expanded and renovated facility in Louisville in December of 2014. The $117.8 million project included construction of a patient tower and the creation of an open, spacious floorplan with abundant natural light. Designed by HKS, the 373-bed hospital provides pediatric and adult operating rooms, a pedatric emergency center, an integrated cancer services suite, a neonatal ICU, and an adult critical care center.
The University of Waterloo broke ground on the $18.6 million Applied Health Sciences facility in December of 2014. Designed by IBI Group Architects, the four-story, 56,000-sf project will be constructed as an expansion of the existing B.C. Matthews Hall and the adjoining Lyle S. Hallman Institute. The addition will provide a 350-seat lecture hall and technology-rich teaching laboratories, including labs for anatomy and kinesiology. The general contractor is Melloul Blamey Construction. Occupancy is expected in fall of 2016.
The $623 million Saint Joseph Hospital opened in Denver in December of 2014. The 831,000-sf facility was built by Mortenson Construction using modular construction methodology, resulting in a savings of 72 work days and $4.3 million, according to a University of Colorado Boulder study. The 400-bed facility features entirely private inpatient rooms, advanced diagnostic imaging suites, and spacious operating rooms. The hospital is owned by SCL Health and jointly operated with National Jewish Health.
Children's Hospital of Richmond at Virginia Commonwealth University is building a $168 million outpatient pavilion. Consolidating all outpatient pediatric services in a single location, the 15-story, 640,000-sf facility will provide 72 exam rooms, faculty offices, a surgical area with two operating rooms and two procedure rooms, and areas for diagnostic testing, imaging, and laboratory services. The project architect is HKS and the general contractor is Skanska.
The Clinical Cell and Vaccine Production Facility (CVPF) at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania is designed to facilitate a bench-to-bedside approach, where the clinical materials to treat disease are manufactured and administered within the hospital using cells from the patient’s own body. The project has achieved international recognition for its unique potential for optimizing patient care and for its success treating human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and cancer.
