Construction Complete on Bed Tower Expansion at Shannon Medical Center

Construction is complete on the west bed tower at Shannon Medical Center in San Angelo, Texas. The seven-story, 140,000-square-foot expansion broke ground in early 2023, and will allow the healthcare provider to serve a wider range of patients across Concho Valley. Hoar Construction served as the contractor.

Shannon Medical Center spans just over 1.5-million square feet on East Harris Avenue in downtown San Angelo, and is part of Shannon Health System. The new bed tower brings three floors of a concrete parking garage underneath four floors of patient care space. The third floor houses a 19,310-square-foot intensive care unit and the fourth floor features patient rooms. The fifth and sixth floors remain shell space to be built out for future use.

During foundation work, the contractor collaborated with the design team to find workarounds that allowed drilling to continue through unforeseen subgrade stratum conditions. They also leveraged prefabrication methods to build bathroom pods and headwalls offsite and exterior wall panels onsite. This methodology allowed for work to be completed offsite concurrently to the construction timeline, which also avoided labor challenges sometimes associated with rural markets. The team used a demolition robot to demolish an existing staircase safely, mitigating vibration and keeping the process quieter than traditional saws and hammers would. A robot was also used for the layout of hangers in the concrete slab.

Approximately 8,609 cubic yards of concrete were placed on the project, along with 790 tons of rebar. To place the prefabbed components onto the project site, as well as concrete and rebar placement, Hoar brought in a 168-foot-high crane in early January 2023, which was the first tower crane to be used within the San Angelo city limits.

Additional project partners included O’Connell Robertson as the architect and MEP engineer and Datum Engineers as the structural engineer.