Healthcare

University of Virginia Health System broke ground on the 150,000-sf Emily Couric Clinical Cancer Center in Charlottesville on April 12, 2008. The $74 million, five-story comprehensive cancer center is slated for completion in mid-2011. The technology-rich outpatient facility will include space for clinical trials in a sustainably-designed facility featuring natural lighting and garden spaces. The center will be built to accommodate advances in areas such as genetic diagnosis and analysis, informatics, and molecular biology.

Loyola University Health System completed its 170,000-sf hospital tower in Maywood, Ill., in early spring of 2008. The tower creates a new front entrance to the hospital campus through an atrium with an 18-ft waterfall. Housing 64 private patient rooms, the project features technologies including a pharmacy robot, a privacy-coded patient tracking system, and a $2.7 million 3T MRI.

Sutter Health is planning to construct a $300 million medical center in Castro Valley, Calif. Services at the seven-story, 130-bed hospital will include emergency, trauma, neuroscience, maternity, and acute care. The facility, which will feature all private beds, will house 90 medical/surgical beds, 24 critical-care beds, and 16 maternity beds. A separate 40-bed “universal care unit” will provide acute care, lab services, pre- and post-surgery care, radiation therapy, and cardiology services.

Reliant Healthcare Partners of Dallas is constructing the 62,000-sf Reliant Rehabilitation Hospital Mid Cities in Bedford, Texas. The $24 million, three-story facility will include a 20-bed orthopedic center and is slated to open in the second quarter of 2009. The 60-bed facility is being developed in partnership with Southwest Verity Capital of Dallas. Approximately 40 doctors will have a 45 percent ownership in the hospital.

Tripoint Medical Center is constructing a 300,000-sf hospital in Concord Township, Ohio. The technology-rich digital hospital will support patient-centered healthcare in a facility with all private patient rooms. The $155 million facility is slated for completion in 2009 and will include a family birthing center.

Nassau University Medical Center will begin construction in 2009 on a $55 million emergency department in East Meadow, N.Y. Doubling the footprint of the medical center’s existing ER, the project will feature new radiology facilities and an expanded psychiatric emergency program. Designed to enable response to mass casualty scenarios, the 52,000-sf facility will include 82 treatment rooms, portable decontamination shower tents, isolation rooms, a separate pediatric treatment area, and a new roof helipad. The project architect is Cannon Design of Manhattan.

Cookeville Regional Medical Center is constructing an $80 million, 228,000-sf patient tower in Cookeville, Tenn. The six-story north tower is slated for completion in October of 2008 with a grand opening slated for early 2009. The project began construction in fall of 2006. The project includes a two-story atrium lobby and two entrances. The second floor will house a cancer center featuring a TomoTherapy unit, a new technology for radiation treatment of cancerous tumors.

Spartanburg Regional Medical is constructing a $26 million surgical suite at its hospital in Spartanburg, S.C. Featuring stainless steel walls for maximum sterility and flexibility, the project is slated for completion in August of 2008. 32,000-sf of the 45,000-sf suite will be constructed with stainless steel walls, enabling reconfiguration of the space as they can be moved within a few days with the nearby rooms remaining usable. The durability of steel eliminates cracks which are a sterility challenge. The suite will feature acrylic floors.

The University Clinic of Schleswig-Holstein has commissioned a consortium comprised of Siemens, Bilfinger Berger, and HSG Technischer Service to construct the first particle therapy center (PTC) in Kiel, Germany. With overall costs of approximately 250 million euros, the Competence Center for Radiotherapeutic Oncology represents the largest public private partnership project (PPP) ever launched in the German healthcare sector.

South Cameron Memorial Hospital celebrated the reopening of its 29,000-sf acute care facility on March 18, 2008. The multi-million dollar project consists of 38 permanent modular components for maximum flexibility. The facility includes 12,000-sf of emergency care, 25 inpatient beds, and space for medical services. The project team included Williams Scotsman and Don M. Barron Contractor Inc. Groundbreaking for the facility, which was destroyed by Hurricane Rita, took place in December of 2006.

Phoenix Controls Corporation, a Honeywell International business, announced in March of 2008 the introduction of a new family of precision airflow control products designed specifically for the HVAC needs of Healthcare facilities. Branded the Theris™ family of valves, this product line brings new value to healthcare engineers and includes features that conserve energy, reduce maintenance, and increase infection control.

The Qatar Foundation began construction in early 2008 on the Sidra Medical and Research Center in Doha, Qatar. Designed by Cesar Pelli of Pelli Clarke Pelli and executive architectural firm Ellerbe Becket, the center will provide world-class clinical care, medical education, and biomedical research facilities. Funded by $7.9 billion (US) by the Qatar Foundation, the project is located on the Education City campus near Weill Cornell Medical College.

The University of Florida celebrated the topping out of the new UF Biomedical Sciences Building in Gainesville on February 29, 2008. The six-story, 160,000-sf multidisciplinary facility is slated for completion in early 2009.

Catholic Healthcare West has awarded Jacobs Engineering Group a $240 million contract to assist in managing the Sequoia Hospital program in Redwood City, Calif. The project consists of a major expansion to the hospital, including a new 104-bed tower, a retrofit of 63 rooms in the existing hospital, a medical office building, and a parking structure. The expansion is expected to be finished by 2012.

Boston University broke ground in late February 2008 on its new facility at Dubai Healthcare City (DHCC). The project, part of the Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Academic Medical Centre, is slated for completion in 2011. The facility will house graduate and postgraduate programs in dentistry and allied health sciences.