Healthcare

The University of Michigan has selected Gilbane Building Company as construction manager for its new 10-story, 215,000-sf academic medical center dedicated to ophthalmology and Type 1 diabetes. Partners include Cambridge architects Stubbins Associates and Clark Construction. The approximate completion date for the $78-million expansion is June 2009. The first three floors are devoted to clinics, the fourth to surgery, and floors five through eight are dedicated to research.

UCSF Medical Center is planning to construct a $1.3-billion hospital campus at its Mission Bay campus in San Francisco. Preliminary planning for a mixed-use, 289-bed hospital at the site is currently under way. The facility will include a 183-bed Children's Hospital, a 36-bed women's facility, and a 70-bed cancer center. The $1.3-billion project cost does not include a planned faculty office building, parking, and additional medical research facilities. The children's hospital and the cancer center will replace facilities at the Parnassus Heights and Mt.

Columbia University Medical Center in New York has received an award from the National Institutes of Health of $54 million over five years to establish the Irving Institute for Clinical and Translational Research. Columbia is one of twelve academic medical centers in the U.S. to receive this Clinical and Translational Science Award. This funding will support construction that will enable Columbia to expand dedicated clinical/translational research space by 40 percent to a total of 35,000 sf.

Johns Hopkins University Medical School broke ground in September 2006 on a $45-million, 100,000-sf academic facility. The four-story East Baltimore building will include a 360-seat lecture hall, classrooms, laboratories, offices, and study areas. The facility, which will feature digital microscopes and technologies, will be named for $20-million donor Michael Armstrong when it opens in 2009.

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center opened its new 85,000-sf outpatient cancer treatment center in Basking Ridge, N.J., in September of 2006. Designed by EwingCole of Philadelphia, the $72.5-million facility is sited on 26 acres of wooded land in the Mountain View Corporate Center and features the latest concepts in therapeutic design including extensive use of windows and natural light. The building houses approximately 100 employees and can accommodate 200 patient visits per day. The center could expand in the future to 162,000 sf. 

The University of Nebraska Medical Center broke ground on a $74-million research tower on its Omaha campus on August 8, 2006. Known as the Research Center of Excellence II (RCEII), the 10-level. 252,179-gsf facility is nearly identical to the Durham Research Tower and will house 98 state-of-the-art laboratories, lab support, and investigator offices. The two research towers will be connected with a covered parkway.

The University of Kentucky (UK) has unveiled the design for the $450-million Albert B. Chandler Hospital. Slated for completion in 2010, the new one million-sf hospital will be built by Turner Construction Company in two phases to allow for a step-by-step replacement of the existing hospital.

San Juan Regional Medical Center opened its new East Tower in Farmington, N.M., on August 17, 2006. Modeled after design concepts found in hotels and resorts, the facility is the largest part of an $80-million expansion and renovation project. The design and engineering work for the tower cost approximately $10 million. The expansion features 72 large private patient rooms, eight operating suites, elevators, day surgery rooms, a new recovery room, and a healing garden.

The Commonwealth of Virginia is constructing the 96,568-sf Virginia Center for Behavioral Rehabilitation (VCBR) in Burkeville. Built by Gilbane Development Company under a turnkey approach for the Department of Mental Health, Mental Retardation and Substance Abuse Services, the 100-bed VCBR will be the first of its kind in Virginia. A planned expansion will bring an additional 200 beds.

Ohio State University (OSU) is constructing the $151-million Biomedical Research Tower on its Columbus campus. The 400,000-sf, 14-story building will be the largest research facility on campus with 180,000 sf of laboratory space. Slated for completion in late fall of 2006, the tower will house labs for biomedical research, core labs for shared use, faculty and administrative offices, a 250-seat auditorium, seminar rooms, and a cafe.

West Chester Medical Center broke ground in July 2006 on its new community hospital in West Chester, Mass. The first $207-million phase includes a 370,000-sf, 160-bed hospital with surgical, outpatient, emergency, and imaging services, as well as a 90,000-sf medical office building. Both facilities are slated for completion in late 2008. The second phase includes expansion of the hospital to 300 beds and construction of a second medical office building and parking garage. The third phase would involve construction of an additional patient tower.

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has selected Cannon Design and Westlake Reed Leskosky to design a new eight-story patient tower for the Louis Stokes VA Medical Center in Cleveland, Ohio. The tower will be located on the center’s Wade Park campus. The 268,000-sf facility will house the hospital’s comprehensive rehabilitation center, nursing and home care department, mental health department, and a number of other patient care programs. Construction is scheduled to begin in 2007 and reach completion in late 2009.

Children's Hospital San Diego has selected McCarthy Building Companies to perform pre-construction services for its new 279,000-sf Acute Care Pavilion in the Kearny Mesa area of San Diego. The $260-million Acute Care Pavilion is designed to house a surgical center, neonatal intensive care center, cancer center, conference centers, and 84 beds. The pavilion is planned for a 148,650-sf site at the southeast end of the Children's Hospital campus adjacent to the existing Rose Pavilion.

The State of Maryland is constructing the new State Forensic Medical Center at the University of Maryland's BioPark in Baltimore. The 120,000-sf facility will house the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner and will adhere to strict biosafety laboratory criteria. The Department of Health and Mental Hygiene may occupy the remaining 26,000-sf in the six-story facility. The first level of the facility will accommodate loading and parking. The joint venture of Gaudreau Inc.

United Hospital Center (a subsidiary of West Virginia United Health System) broke ground in July of 2006 on a $285-million hospital facility in Bridgeport, Va. The 681,440-sf, seven-story facility will house 289 beds in private rooms. Completion is expected in fall of 2009. The project team includes architect Gresham, Smith and Partners of Nashville, Tenn.; civil engineer Hornor Brothers Engineers of Clarksburg, W.