2006 Top Health Care Projects

By Lucy Bodilly

Health Care Projects, will total over $3 billion in the next two years. Pent up demand for new facilities and an aging population are the main reasons behind the boom.

Name of Project: Southwest Washington Medical Center Campus Expansion (Complete in December, 06)
Owner:Southwest Washington
Medical Center Architect: NBBJ
General Contractor: Hoffman-Andersen
Cost: $106 million

Description: This 450,000 SF project is highlighted by a 307,000-sq.ft, 8-story medical tower with one lower level of parking. The tower will add 154 beds to the hospital. The tower includes central sterile, cath labs, operating rooms, and inpatient bed floors. A new free-standing, 17,200-sq.ft. central plant is located at the southwest corner of the employee parking lot, to accommodate mechanical and electrical needs of the tower. The project also includes a 3 & 1/2-level, 133,000sq.f.t , 350 space parking garage expansion.

Name of Project: Providence St. Vincent Integrated Cancer Center (Complete in August, 06)
Owner: Providence Health
System Contractor: Andersen Construction
Architect: Jon R. Jurgens
Architects Cost: $41 million

Description: This nine level, 250,000-sq.ft. facility is being constructed to match the general appearance of the existing adjacent Medical Office Building No. 3 and will have, as one of it’s major tenants, the St. Vincent Integrated Cancer Center. The building’s shell features a combination precast concrete/glazed skin covering a structural steel frame with integral brace frames that bear spread footings and a partial basement . The interior improvements include five new elevators, an ornate main lobby and large conference rooms on the first level, and a roof garden on the second floor.

Owner: Sacred Heart Hospital, Eugene
Architect: Anchsen Allen Architects
Contractor: Turner Construction
Project Description: New Hospital campus being built near Springfield, Ore.

Name of Project: Providence Newberg
Owner: Providence Hospital
Architect: Mahlum Architects
Contractor: Turner Construction

Project Description: The 187,000-sq.-ft. structure includes a 41-bed hospital, administrative space and a healing and wellness garden. The $68.5 million project will replace an existing hospital and is Providence’s first new facility in nearly 30 years. he project also includes a three-story, 45,000-sq.ft. medical office building, which Providence already has leased out. The hospital plans to add an additional office building in 2008 that will double its capacity for physician and other outpatient services.

Name of Project: Harborview Siesmic Upgrade
Owner: King County
Location: Seattle, WA
Cost: $103,000,000
Project Owner: King County c/o UW Board of Regents
Architect: NBBJ
Contractor: Turner Construction

Project Name: Salem Hospital Campus Expansion
Location: Salem, Oregon
Project Cost: $173 Million
Owner: Salem Hospital Regional Health Service
Architect: HKS Architects
Engineer: CoughlinPorterLundeen

Subcontractors/Suppliers : Cherry City Electric, Dynalectric Company, Kinetic Systems, Inc., Oregon Cascade Plumbing & Heating, Siemens Building Technologies , Staton Companies, T-Plus Steel Fabricators, Inc. , Westlake Consultants

Project Description: Turner is providing Construction Manager/General Contracting services for the Salem Hospital Campus Expansion Project. As one of the largest healthcare providers in Oregon's Willamette Valley, Salem Hospital is starting a three-phase, $200 million campus expansion to include a new Central Utility Plant, a new 120-bed inpatient bed tower, a medical office building and parking structure. The construction will take place in the heart of the existing medical facility. In addition, Turner will be renovating throughout the existing Center for Outpatient Medicine and Family Birthing Center.

Name of Project: Overlake Hospital South Tower
Cost: $60M ($125M total project cost)
Owner: Overlake Hospital Medical Center
Architect: NBBJ
Subconsultants: Affiliated Engineers, ABKJ, CPL, GeoEngineers

Major Subcontractors: Valley, UMC, Northwest Construction, Thyssen Krupp, DBM, Conforce, Goldfinch, Expert Drywall, Apex Steel Erection, Metals Fab
Project Description: 5 floor hospital addition, 138,000sq.ft. with 4 floors of parking, 127,000-sq.ft. of renovations, 90,000SF; Overlake Hospital's South Tower will be a new five-story addition to the south side of the main hospital. Included in the South Tower is a new state-of-the-art 48-station Emergency Trauma Center located on the ground floor. The South Tower includes high-tech single-patient rooms and operating rooms with the latest technology, a Critical Care Unit, and a 370-car parking area below ground and connector passageways to the Group Health Specialty Center.

Most difficult aspect of the project: Working on occupied, fully functional medical campus including major renovations of campus buildings

Name of Project: Evergreen Hospital

Project Description: The eight-floor Patient Facility will accommodate up to six large operating rooms and four catheterization labs, with associated pre- and post-operative patient areas, central service and support areas. It will also provide as many as 192 patient care beds, allowing the replacement of the original double occupancy patient rooms while accommodating additional services and programs. The original rooms are too small for current treatment methods, and it is more cost-effective to replace outmoded patient rooms than to modernize them. Patient rooms will be designed to a “universal room” standard that is flexible to serve standard medical-surgical or intensive-care uses, including new and emerging medical technologies. A hub-style floor plan will locate nurse stations for optimal patient visibility.

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