Healthcare

The University of California San Francisco (UCSF) broke ground in April 2006 on the Helen Diller Family Cancer Research Building, a five-story, 160,000-sf facility designed by Rafael Vinoly. The building will more than double the space for UCSF Comprehensive Cancer Center researchers to focus on a variety of cancers including prostate, kidney,and brain. The UCSF Cancer Research Institute will be housed in the new facility, where research on the basic biological mechanisms of cancer will be carried out in 15 major laboratories.

Clarian Health Partners has completed construction of the new 164,000-sf Clarian Pathology Laboratory which will provide diagnostic testing services for Clarian hospitals patients in Central Indiana. BSA LifeStructures and Blackburn Architects as Blackburn BSA LLC designed the $67-million state-of-the-art structure; Wurster/Smoot was the builder.

The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center is building a 21-story tower at Houston's Texas Medical Center. Groundbreaking for the 732,000-sf Faculty Center Tower, designed by PageSoutherlandPage, was held on November 11, 2005 with completion expected in the spring of 2008. Faculty Center Tower, which will connect via an above-grade bridge to M. D.

Construction is complete on the new Sue and Bill Gross Women's Pavilion at Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian in Newport Beach, Calif. The $129-million project is McCarthy's ninth for the hospital. The 320,000-sf Women's Pavilion is the single largest construction project undertaken by Hoag Hospital since 1974. The new facility features the latest in healthcare technology, patient comfort, and seismic building safety.

The Children's Hospital at Fitzsimons is developing a new "child-friendly" facility at its $360-million Aurora, Colo., campus. The 1.02-million-sf building will include significant outdoor green space with children's play areas, child-sized countertops in the reception areas and a kids-only area with Internet access, activities, games, and entertainment equipment. The new hospital will focus on family comfort as well, providing private patient rooms with family sleeping accommodations, family storage, private baths, data ports, and desks.

Emory University has selected Boston-based Payette to conduct a feasibility study encompassing a precinct master plan for a replacement medical center for Emory University Hospital, Wesley Woods Hospital, and the Emory Clinic. The project, known as the Woodruff Health Sciences Center, allows for new research facilities to be adjacent to the diagnosis and treatment chassis connecting bench to bed. The first phase of implementation is estimated to be a 600,000-gsf multidisciplinary outpatient clinic and translational research building.

The design of the $60-million Lou Ruvo Alzheimer's Institute has been completed by architect Frank Gehry. The planned five-story, 55,000-sf facility will be sited on 61 acres in downtown Las Vegas. The center will accommodate research and treatment of neurological disorders.

Johns Hopkins will begin construction in 2006 on a $275.5-million children's tower in Baltimore, Md. Part of a new clinical facility, the 12-story, 205-bed tower will house a pediatric trauma center, ten operating rooms, psychiatry, and outpatient cancer care. Funding for the facility will come in part from a $100-million donation recently received by Johns Hopkins. Slated for completion in summer of 2009, the project is currently eight months behind schedule and $190-million over budget due to high construction material costs.

Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh and the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) has selected the joint venture of Barton Malow and P.J. Dick Inc. to serve as general contractor of a new clinical services building that is part of Children's new campus. The construction cost of the facility is approximately $174-million. The partnership between Children's Hospital and UPMC enables UPMC's construction department to oversee the development of the new Children's campus.

The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston is adding approximately 750,000 sf of biomedical research space and outpatient care in a new complex named the Red and Charline McCombs Institute for the Early Detection and Treatment of Cancer.

The University of Virginia Health System is planning to construct three new facilities on its Charlottesville campus: a $25-million translational research facility with laboratories; a $15-million outpatient facility for Children's Hospital; and a $5-million clinical center accommodating cancer care. The facilities are being funded by a $45-million donation from the Ivy Foundation to further biomedical research.

Kaiser Permanente is planning a $200-million replacement hospital and medical office building in Redwood City, Calif. HOK has been selected to design the 212-bed hospital and parking structure with Perkins and Will as the architect for the medical office building. Drawings are expected to reach completion by year-end 2007 with construction to begin in late 2008. The facilities are expected to reach completion by mid-2011.

Carle Foundation Hospital is working with McCarthy to construct a $44-million expansion of its Urbana, Illinois, facility. The three-part project includes: a complex five-story, 108,000-sf vertical addition to the hospital's North Tower; a 23,000-sf expansion and renovation of the emergency department; and a new three-story, 46,000-sf ancillary building. The North Tower addition will add one floor of medical/surgical beds, one floor of NICU, one pediatric floor, and two OB floors. The expansion was designed by HDR of Omaha.

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.