Inova Health System has opened new decontamination facilities at all five Inova hospitals, including Inova Fairfax Hospital, as part of an emergency preparedness initiative. Each unit houses 6 to 8 shower stalls, designed and built by Chantilly-based Scott Long Construction, and has a decontamination capacity of 500 patients per hour in the event of a bioterrorism attack. The total project construction cost was approximately $350,000.
The University of California San Francisco (UCSF) is building a $26-million, 55,000-sf facility in Fresno to accommodate up to 45 students in its UCSF Fresno residency program. Located on the Community Regional Medical Center campus, the three-story building will function as a headquarters, housing the Associate Dean's office, a library, seven residency programs, and an auditorium with videoconferencing capabilities. Groundbreaking for the facility is scheduled for Oct. 22.
Northwestern University is developing Phase One of the Gladys & Arthur Pancoe Life Sciences Pavilion, a new 88,000-sf research facility housing the Center for Experimental Animal Research on the university's Evanston campus. The project will accommodate research for the University and Northwestern Healthcare’s Evanston Hospital. Designed by Zimmer Gunsul Frasca Partnership of Los Angeles, the four-story building with basement will house flexible research labs, faculty offices, vivarium, auditorium, and a café.
A plan for the World Trade Center including healthcare and biotechnology research facilities has been proposed by KMD Architects, a San Francisco firm with offices in New York. The plan also features a research tower, a 70-story hotel/office tower, and a separate 60-story student housing tower. Adjacent low rise buildings would house university satellite campuses including 5,000 residential units. The complex would include a performing arts center, open space, and memorials throughout the development.
The University of Missouri Columbia is building a new 124,000-nsf Life Sciences Center (LSC). Construction began in December of 2001 on the $60-million project which will include a DNA research facility, five teaching/computer labs, a 250-seat auditorium, 50 research labs, technologically advanced classrooms, a greenhouse, and multipurpose equipment rooms. The facility will provide flexible space to maximize interactions and foster interdisciplinary team research.
Comanche County Memorial Hospital and Watkins Hamilton Ross have just begun construction on a four-story Outpatient Center addition to the existing hospital. The project is expected to complete construction in fall 2003. The 124,675-sf building will include an outpatient surgery unit and surgery recovery area with direct access to the hospital's surgery suites. Diagnostic imaging, women's imaging, pre-admit testing, a public education center, and a dedicated sports medicine clinic and orthopedic physicians offices complete the program.
ValleyCare Health System, a Pleasanton and Livermore community hospital system, is engaged in 180,000 sf of new construction totalling almost $94 million. Adding 40 acute and intensive care beds to its 97-bed Pleasanton hospital, ValleyCare will also expand operating room, clinical, outpatient, and medical office facilities. Currently under construction on the Livermore campus is the 65,000-sf "Lifestyle RX", a health, wellness and fitness center open to patients and the general population.
The Wake Forest University School of Medicine is planning to expand its Piedmont Triad Research Park by 180 acres. The expansion would increase the four-building, 600-worker park to ten times its current size.
The University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center (UNM HSC) is planning the Children's Pavilion and Critical Care Wing, a nearly 400-sf facility integrating technology and research into a family and patient-centered environment. The project will house the following operations: UNM Children's Hospital; operating rooms; Neonatal Intensive Care Unit; Children's Emergency Department; Adult Emergency Department; Adult Critical Care; Urgent Care and Trauma; Women's Birthing Center; Postpartum Services; Well Baby Nursery; and Respiratory Therapy.
The University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center plans to build the 129,100-sf Education Building to provide interdisciplinary learning for health care professionals. The facility will integrate research knowledge, flexibility in teaching environment and technology, and state-of-the-art equipment and training. Cost for planning, design and construction of the Education building is estimated at $40-million.
The University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center (UNM HCS) is soliciting programming and architectural/engineering proposals for the Cancer Research and Treatment Center. Current plans for the potentially 180,000-sf facility, the second phase of the 80,000-sf Cancer Research Facility built in 1997, include two floors of wet lab research as well as facilities for patient holding, outpatient diagnosis and treatment, Chemotherapy, Radiation Oncology, clinical trials, dry lab research, administration, medical offices, patient education, and comm
Responding to current and future outpatients demands, the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center will develop the Ambulatory Surgery and Imaging Center, a 36,000-sf facility with a single shared infrastructure for the two departments including recovery space, waiting room and reception area. Relieving pressure on existing surgical and imaging facilities, the Ambulatory Surgery and Imaging Center will house six operating rooms; 24 prep/recovery bays; CAT Scan; MRI; Mammography; Ultrasound; the Pain Clinic; and office and support space.
Rockdale Hospital in Conyers, Ga., began construction in late September 2002 on a $9.7-million expansion and renovation of its emergency department. More than doubling the hospital's emergency facilities, the project includes the addition of 18,000 sf, two more nurse's stations, additional exam rooms, and a 14-bed observation unit. Construction is slated for completion in January 2004.
DeWitt Army Hospital is planning to replace its Fort Belvoir facility with a $110-million, 430,000-sf state-of-the-art hospital. Serving the 151,000 eligible uniformed services health care beneficiaries in Northern Virginia, the replacement hospital will be accompanied by redevelopment of the Regional Community Support Center as part of the Army's master plan for Fort Belvoir.
Knapp Medical Center in Weslaco recently broke ground on a 25,000-sf emergency department addition and renovation project. As builder McCarthy constructs the new ER addition, renovation of the existing adjacent facilities will also be completed. A new medical center entrance will integrate the new and renovated areas of the facility. Completion of the $5.7-million project, designed by architect PageSoutherlandPage, is expected in October 2003.
