Healthcare

GENERATIONS OF CARE |  Toledo, OH

The Generations of Care project is the largest single construction project in ProMedica’s history – a $355-million replacement tower. The 682,000-square-foot, 14-story, 309-bed patient care tower replaced the almost 90-year-old current facility. The project also included a 422-space parking garage close to the facility.

The building utilized the concept of off-site prefabricated MEP corridor rack systems. The use of the rack systems allows for increased quality control as the contractors are working on the ground instead of overhead. It also reduces the installation time in the field.

Throughout the project, there were numerous challenges that required collaboration between all sides of the design and construction team. One situation that emerged during the design process led to a critical change to the plans for the central energy plant (CEP).

In the existing CEP, the emergency power system was expanded. A new 2.25-megawatt medium voltage generator was installed and then paralleled with the existing 2.25-megawatt medium voltage generator.

Work on Generations Tower began in April 2016 and construction was completed in June 2019.

OWENSBORO HEALTH REGIONAL HOSPITAL |  Owensboro, KY

Delivered using an integrated project delivery approach, the Owensboro Medical Center Replacement Hospital is a 781,000-square-foot, 350-bed hospital and integrated health campus located on a 160-acre site. The hospital includes a nine-story patient tower with supporting ancillary buildings.

In order to achieve the goals established early on and ensure delivery on the vision, Turner chose to pursue an innovative approach in constructing its new medical campus. Utilizing integrated project delivery, a method where all team members were hired prior to the start of the project and signed an agreement, the project team agreed that the total cost of construction would not exceed $385 million. By taking this approach, Owensboro Health was able to add $5 million to the scope of the project without increasing its overall budget

Every floor offers patients and families extraordinary views of the picturesque campus that includes ponds, gardens and trees. Indicative of the rethinking inherent in the new design, tools for patient care are out of sight but within easy reach in each of the 400-square-foot rooms, which are one-third larger than the patient rooms in the previous hospital. Rather than a central nurses’ station, a work area is tucked outside each patient room, allowing nurses to stay closer to patients.

MIDDLE TENNESSEE MEDICAL CENTER |  Murfreesboro, TN

In 2006, MTMC announced plans to build a new 286-bed hospital to replace its 80-year-old facility. Groundbreaking festivities were held in early 2008, followed by a topping out ceremony six months later.

The 556,361-square-foot facility is the focal point of a 68.5-acre medical campus. Two patient towers contain 286 all-private patient rooms. Other features include a 32-bed intensive care unit, a 21,000-square-foot emergency department, expanded maternity services, and a surgical suite with 10 operating rooms.

Total cost for the construction project was estimated at $267 million. Completion was originally scheduled for August 2, 2010, with reports in fall 2009 that the project was ahead of schedule and construction wrapping up by June 15, 2010. The project has received significant cost and time savings from the use of the building information modeling as well as through the use of integrated project delivery. Turner utilized BIM to electronically detail the construction scheduling process.

SOIN MEDICAL HOSPITAL |  Beavercreek, OH

PHASE I

Located on 22 acres at Pentagon Boulevard and Royal Gateway Road, the six-story, 285,000-square-foot hospital debuted in the first quarter of 2012.

An integrated team approach was deployed from day one to streamline design and construction and fast track the project. Kettering, HOK, program manager Navigant Consulting Inc., general contractor Danis Building Construction Co. and Heapy Engineering all worked together, testing design ideas and evaluating constructability. It has allowed the team to more swiftly advance phases of the project including site excavation, which was completed as the building design was being finalized.

PHASE II EXPANSION

Kettering Health Network is making progress on a $70-million expansion project at one of its local hospitals.

Soin Medical Center, is undergoing construction of a $70-million expansion project, five-story, 170,000-square-foot tower that will accommodate new services and allow for further expansion. The tower will house additional surgical and cardiac services, as well as private inpatient rooms and shelled space that could be used in the future.

VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY’S MONROE CARELL’S CHILDREN HOSPITAL |  Nashville, TN

In 2004, the 616,785-square-foot (57,301.2 m²) Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt University opened with 238 inpatient beds, 16 operating rooms, 36 intensive care unit beds, and space for 104 premature babies in the neonatal intensive-care unit.

Even the hospital’s exterior reflects the family-friendly focus, integrating crayon-like tubes that house family areas, and cones disguising mechanical elements. In addition to family accommodations in the individual patient rooms, the hospital offers separate family sleep rooms; lounges featuring kitchens, laundry facilities, and business centers; and separate quiet rooms within “neighborhood”-themed arrangements of floors.

Providing so extensively for families is only part of the hospital’s uniqueness. For example, the emergency department has one of the first level-one trauma units just for children, and the myelosuppression unit on the sixth floor is one of a kind. The entire unit is sealed and filtered, not only in the individual patient rooms, but also in the play area so that children can leave their rooms to play and do homework.

OSU WEXNER MEDICAL CENTER  |  Columbus, OH

Ohio State Wexner Medical Center complex provides cutting-edge research, outstanding clinical training and world-class patient care.

A new inpatient tower and new inpatient tower garage will serve patients and visitors and house up to 1,900 spaces. With a target open date of June 2021, the $102.1 million tower would feature as many as 840 private patient rooms, adding 400 new beds and replacing 440 beds that would be retired in Rhodes and Doan halls. Some of the legacy beds are in double-occupancy rooms. It also would again expand the emergency department and include full hospital services such as operating suites, imaging and critical care.

The tower will be the largest single facilities project ever undertaken at Ohio State with up to 840 beds in private-room settings to elevate patient-centered care, safety and training for the next generation of physicians.

MIAMI VALLEY HOSPITAL  |  Dayton ,OH

The 11-story tower is located east of the Miami Valley Hospital’s Shaw Emergency and Trauma Center and connected via pedestrian bridge. With 178 patient rooms, the facility serves as a comprehensive heart center featuring imaging services, cardiac testing, cardiac catheterization labs and heart surgery suites. The construction includes future capacity for 72 additional private patient rooms, a new patient/visitor entry lobby, two levels of underground parking, overhead pedestrian connectors and a loading dock.

The tower is the first major hospital construction project in the U.S. to use prefabrication methods for all mechanical, electrical and plumbing (MEP) installation. The corridors of each of the tower’s three wings were prefabricated in three separate phases in a warehouse two miles from the site and then installed. Phase one entailed fabrication of the corridor rack modules that make up all overhead MEP services. The second phase involved construction of bathroom pods, which were built as six-sided studwall structures (five walls + ceiling) in the warehouse, complete with the installation of all MEP services.

The final phase encompassed 10-foot-tall by 12-foot-long patient room headwalls/footwalls with MEP services that were also built in the warehouse and shipped to site.

The Miami Valley Hospital Heart Tower applied for LEED silver certification.