Construction Complete on West 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. The project team included Hoar Construction, O’Connell Robertson and Datum Engineers.

Shannon Medical Center campus spans just over 1.5 million square feet. The new bed tower brings three floors of a concrete parking garage underneath four floors of patient care space. During foundation work, the contractor collaborated with the design team to find workarounds that allowed drilling to continue through unforeseen subgrade stratum conditions. The project team also leveraged prefabrication methods to build bathroom pods and headwalls offsite and exterior wall panels onsite. 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.