Healthcare

Kaiser Permanente is planning to construct a $600-million replacement hospital on 63 acres in Hayward, Calif. The 300-bed facility will house an emergency department, inpatient care, a medical office building, and an outpatient clinic. The hospital is slated for completion in 2012 in order to meet a state-mandated deadline for seismic rebuilding by January of 2013. The architects for the project are Ellerbe Beckett of Kansas City and Hawley Peterson & Snyder of Mountain View, Calif.

St. Jude Research Hospital is expanding its Memphis campus with the construction of the $114-million Integrated Patient Care and Research Building (IPCRB). Slated for completion in early 2007, the six-story, 300,000-sf building will house inpatient space, research laboratories, diagnostic imaging, and radiation oncology treatment facilities. The second floor will be dedicated to inpatient care with research and office space on the remaining floors.

The Montreal Heart Institute is initiating a $24-million project to expand and renovate its Research Centre in Montreal, Canada. Slated for completion in 2008, the project will expand the south block, known as the Pavillon Jean-Louis Levesque, by 6,125 square meters on three floors. A catheterization and research space will be built, and the first three floors of the south block will be reorganized.

Children's Medical Center in Dallas has initiated an $18-million expansion adjacent to its existing hospital. Designed by HKS Inc., the 142,300-sf building is slated to open in summer of 2006. The construction manager for the project is the Dallas office of Gilbane Building Co.

The University of Tennessee is developing the UT-Baptist Research Park in Memphis, Tenn. The 10-acre campus will consist of 1.2 million sf of bioscience laboratory, education, research, and incubator space.  Baptist Memorial Health Care donated its property in the Memphis Medical District to create the campus. A 924,000-sf building will be imploded to enable new construction to begin in the second quarter of 2006. The project will be built in six phases over ten years.

University of North Carolina Hospitals broke ground in October 2005 on the new North Carolina Cancer Hospital in Chapel Hill. Zimmer Gunsul Frasca Partnership of Seattle is the architect of record for the project with Skanska USA Building of Parsippany, N.J., as general contractor. The seven-story, 320,000-sf clinical building is projected to open in 2009 and will combine cancer treatment and research. The 105,000-sf Physician's Office Building component of the project will open in 2008.

McMaster University opened the $71-million Michael G. DeGroote Centre of Learning and Discovery on Sept. 22, 2005. Housing over 250 scientists that will work collaboratively to discover new gene-based medicines, the facility includes a specialized robotic microscope, one of three in the world. Featuring primarily open laboratories, the facility houses the Centre for Functional Genomics; the Centre for Gene Therapeutics; the Institute for Cancer and Stem Cell Biology Research; the Robert E.

North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System is planning to construct a $40-million research laboratory in Manhasset, N.Y. Ground will be broken on the four-story, 55,658-sf facility in November 2005. Sited on the 57.8-acre North Shore University Hospital Campus, the new wing will increase the footprint and research capacity of the existing Boas-Marks Biomedical Research Pavilion. Completion is expected in two years.

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute is planning to construct a $300-million facility in the Longwood Medical and Academic Area in Boston. The 400,000-sf complex will house research labs and clinical outpatient treatment suites with ground floor retail. Designed by Portland, Ore.-base Zimmer Gunsul Frasca Partnership, the facility will increase Dana-Farber's footprint by one-third. Completion is expected by 2011.

The University of Tennessee Health Science Center dedicated Phase II of the Hamilton Eye Institute in Memphis, Tenn., on Sept. 26, 2005. The second phase of the $63-million facility is comprised of 28,000 sf of laboratories; 20,000 sf of examination rooms; 10,000 sf of education and training facilities; 8,000 sf of office space; an ophthalmic ambulatory surgery center; and a 99-seat auditorium.

Clemson University is planning to construct a $6-million incubator facility in Pendleton, S.C. Sited in the Clemson Research Park, the 40,000-sf Innovation Center will be located adjacent to Clemson's Advanced Materials Research Laboratory. Additionally, Clemson has allotted $10.3 million in funding to create a research campus for the Clemson University Restoration Institute (CURI) in North Charleston on the former Charleston Naval Base.

The University of Virginia Health System broke ground in September 2005 on a $70.7-million medical building on its Charlottesville campus. The 102,000-sf facility will accommodate research on vaccine therapy, immunology, infectious diseases, cancer, and biotechnology. The building will house 240 scientists working in 60 research teams.

The University of North Carolina is partnering with Dole Food Company, North Carolina State University, developer David Murdock, and other institutions to create the 350-acre North Carolina Research Campus in Kannapolis. Upon completion, the campus will comprise over one million square feet of office and laboratory space as well as commercial, retail, and residential facilities. The first 330,000-sf building will include:

Kaiser Permanente is planning to open a $30-million cancer center in South San Francisco. Designed by Emeryville, Calif.-based Ratcliff Architects, the 19,500-sf oncology center will house 12 examination rooms, four linear accelerators, a CT scanner, physician offices, and space for support staff. Redwood City, Calif.-based contractor Rudolph & Sletten is expected to begin construction on the facility in early 2006 and reach completion in the first half of 2007. The center is estimated to treat 1,000 cancer patients annually.

Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, an affiliate of Partners HealthCare , will invest approximately $100 million to construct a new facility at the Navy Yard in Charlestown. Designed by Perkins & Will, the 150-bed rehabilitation hospital will include research and conference space, underground parking, and an indoor aquatics center. Completion is expected in 2009 to 2010.