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Industry News
Trios Health Opens Kennewick Hospital
Trios Health opened the $112 million Southridge Hospital in July of 2014 in Kennewick, Wash. The four-story, 168,000-sf facility was designed by PKA Architects of Portland and built by C.D. Smith Construction. With a total of 74 private rooms, the hospital provides 14 intensive care beds and 60 medical/surgical beds. Featuring a three-story atrium, the project includes six operating rooms, an advanced diagnostic imaging suite, cardiac catheterization labs, and an emergency department with 27 treatment rooms.
Clark College Plans STEM Building
Clark College will break ground in late summer of 2014 on a $41 million facility to support STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) programs. Located in Vancouver, Wash., the 70,000-sf, three-story project will provide technology-rich classrooms, labs, offices, and study spaces for the departments of biology, chemistry, physics, and engineering. Mechanical systems to support the facility will be located on the basement level. Completion is expected by December of 2015 with occupancy in fall of 2016.
iThemba Labs Opens Accelerator Mass Spectrometry Facility
iThemba Labs opened the Accelerator Mass Spectrometry Laboratory in July of 2014 in Johannesburg, South Africa. The facility is the first of its kind in Africa and will support biomedical, pharmaceutical, geological, and environmental research, as well as supporting advanced sample dating techniques for paleontology.
Presbyterian Rust Medical Center Builds Patient Tower
Presbyterian Rust Medical Center is building an $86 million patient tower in Rio Rancho, N.M. Designed by Dekker/Perich/Sabatini, the six-story project will provide 120 beds and will include a 21,500-sf cancer center. The general contractor for the project is McCarthy Building Companies, the firm that collaborated with Dekker/Perich/Sabatini on the original Presbyterian Rust hospital. Completion of the new patient tower and cancer center is expected by early 2016.
University of Kentucky Implements Lynn Imaging's Construction Information Management Software
University of Kentucky officials are using a new digital construction information management tool to manage over 30 active projects totaling approximately $800 million. The Web-based eCommunication system designed by Lynn Imaging was adopted as the University enters a significant capital development phase, with projects including a major expansion and upgrading of the Student Center, a modernization to Commonwealth Stadium, a state-of-the-art science classroom and lab facility, and interior fit-out of the new University Patient Care Facility.