Healthcare

The University of Nebraska Medical Center is planning to build a $370 million cancer complex in Omaha. The 670,000-sf project will include four buildings. The $110 million, 250,000-sf Cancer Research Tower will house 98 labs in a ten-story facility. The $150 million, 200,000-sf Multidisciplinary Outpatient Cancer Treatment Center will be a nine story building featuring subterranean radiation therapy suites. The $63 million, 125,000-sf Cancer Inpatient Facility will be six stories tall and provide 108 beds.

West Virginia University Hospitals is planning a $248 million expansion of its Morgantown campus. The four-year project includes construction of a 10-story tower with an expanded emergency department, trauma center, ICU, and NICU. The expansion will add 139 patient beds, with all rooms in the completed hospital becoming private. A new Rosenbaum Family House and Child Development Center will also be built. 

Cleveland Clinic opened the $75 million Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Building in January of 2012. The 138,000-sf project houses advanced facilities for genomic, molecular, microbiologic, and DNA testing of specimens supplied by hospitals across the United States. Construction began on the sustainably designed building in 2009.

Shriners Hospitals for Children is building a $127 million replacement facility in Montreal. Located on the Glen campus of the McGill University Health Centre, the 207,000-sf facility features 24,756 sf of research space, 22 private patient rooms, four operating suites, and a $400,000 surgical skills training lab. The project was designed by André Ibghy Architects. Occupancy is expected by 2015. 

Brigham and Women's Hospital opened the 5,700-gsf Advanced Multimodality Image Guided Operating (AMIGO) suite in December of 2011 in Boston. As the world’s first three-bay operating suite to house MRI, PET/CT, Ultrasound, and Angiography in one place, along with surgical navigation tools and image registering and integration software, AMIGO offers significant advancements to developing image-guided surgical treatment procedures. 

Ohio State University Medical Center is building the $1 billion Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute in Columbus. The 17-story, 276-bed tower will provide integrated research and treatment facilities including critical care beds, laboratories, and medical offices. Ground was broken on the project in June of 2010 and completion is expected in 2014.

Rush University Medical Center opened a $654 million hospital in Chicago in December of 2011. Designed by Perkins+Will, the 14-story, 806,000-sf tower houses the Mary Jo and John Boler Center for Advanced Imaging, an emergency department with 60 treatment bays, 42 technology-rich procedure rooms, and the McCormick Foundation Center for Advanced Emergency Response. Construction began on the 304-bed facility in fall of 2008. LEED Gold sustainable design certification will be sought for the project.

Humber River Regional Hospital broke ground on a 656-bed replacement hospital in Toronto in December of 2011. The 1.6 million-sf facility will feature an expanded emergency department, specialized outpatient services, and advanced infectious disease containment systems. The project developer is Plenary Health Care Partnerships and the value of the construction contract is $1.75 billion, which includes design, construction, building maintenance, life-cycle repair and renewal, and project financing.

Brigham and Women's Hospital is planning a $450 million research and clinical building in Boston. The medical foci of the 360,000-sf facility will be immunology, neuroscience, genomics, and regenerative medicine. Completion is expected by 2016.

The University of Arizona will begin building a $135 million cancer center in summer of 2012. Part of UA's Phoenix Biomedical Campus, the facility will be a National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer center. The six-story, 250,000-sf clinical and translational research building will be operated in partnership with St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center. Completion is expected in mid-2014. 

Scripps Health will build a $220 million proton therapy center in Mira Mesa, Calif. Construction will begin on the 102,000-sf facility in July of 2012 with completion expected in spring of 2013. The project will be created in partnership with Advanced Particle Therapy. 

Skanska and joint venture partner MAPP Construction have been awarded a $522 million contract to build phase one of the new University Medical Center in New Orleans for the State of Louisiana. Designed by NBBJ, the $1.2 billion project includes a 560,000-sf, 424-bed teaching hospital and a 746,982-sf diagnosis and treatment center. Ground was broken on the project in April of 2011 and occupancy is expected in February of 2015.

Blythedale Children's Hospital opened its new $62 million inpatient facility in December of 2011 in Valhalla, N.Y. The 86-bed project features a brain surgery unit, pressurized isolation rooms, low-stimulus inpatient rooms for sensitive patients, and post-intensive care units. 

Victory Healthcare will break ground on the 95,000-sf Victory Surgical Hospital in San Antonio in November of 2011. The four-story facility will include a 14,000-sf emergency department, medical offices, and operating rooms for bariatric, orthopedic, and spinal surgery, including endoscopic neurosurgical procedures.

Yeshiva University's Einstein College of Medicine opened the Cognitive Neurophysiology Laboratory in New York in November of 2011. The mission of the Cognitive Neurophysiology Lab is to understand how the brain function of individuals with disorders such as autism, attention deficit disorder, and childhood schizophrenia differs from that of their peers. The facility includes a new 5,000-sf lab with specialized rooms that allow researchers to control sound and other stimuli.