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Healthcare giant HCA has selected Skanska to develop several addition and renovation construction projects. These include the Metropolitan Methodist Hospital and the Northeast Methodist Hospital, both located in San Antonio, Texas. Skanska will also be renovating the Lewis-Gale Hospital in Salem, Virginia. The company provided feasibility/pre-construction services for these three projects. The Metropolitan Methodist Hospital will include a 90,000-sf women’s services center, a catheter lab addition and a new connector bridge.

The Maritime College, a specialized college of the State University of New York, has selected the New York division of Skanska USA Building as construction manager for a new dormitory building on its Throggs Neck campus. The project is being developed in conjunction with the Dormitory Authority of the State of New York. The new 300-bed residence hall will be a four-story steel structure. At the rear of the building, sections of glass curtainwall will allow students to view Long Island Sound from one of the centrally located lounge areas.

The University of Washington has awarded Skanska USA Building the pre-construction services assignment for the Johnson Hall renovation in Seattle. The pre-construction phase will begin in the third quarter of 2003. If the project enters the construction phase, which is expected in January 2004, the anticipated construction value for the project would be approximately $35-million. Skanska’s Seattle office will oversee the project, which includes seismic upgrades and renovation/restoration of the 121,000-sf five-story 1930’s historic structure.

Maria Parham Hospital will begin construction on a five-story, 131,000-sf tower in summer of 2003. The $52.8-million expansion project is the largest in the hospital’s 78-year history. Replacing much of the existing hospital, the tower will house a new emergency department, imaging and radiology, intensive care, a women’s center, a neonatal unit, a surgical patient unit, and five operating rooms. Renovations to 46,600 sf of the existing hospital will create a 25-bed unit adjoining the surgical patient unit on the new tower’s fourth floor.

Biomedical Research Models of Worcester, Mass., has relocated part of its operations to 10,000 sf in Springfield. The facility is slated to open in early July of 2003. Biomedical Research Models is affiliated with the Springfield-based Bio-Economic Technology Alliance (BETA), an organization focused on the development of a cluster of biotech manufacturing companies in the area.