Tocci Building Companies Breaks Ground on Cancer Pavilion at Marlborough Hospital

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BOSTON, Mass. — Tocci Building Companies announced Marlborough Hospital has broken ground on its new Cancer Pavilion. The facility is part of the UMass Memorial Health Care's Cancer Center of Excellence, and Tocci will partner with architect The S/L/A/M Collaborative (S/L/A/M). For the first time in Massachusetts, a healthcare project will be built using Integrated Project Delivery. Marlborough Hospital chose the team of Tocci and S/L/A/M for its experience using IPD, a contract form and design/construction process that fuses parties together in the spirit of ownership, collaboration and mutual responsibility for the project's success. The Cancer Pavilion will become the … Read more

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Structural Steel Work Completes on Torrance Memorial Medical Center New Patient Tower

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TORRANCE, Calif. — Construction is one step closer to completion on the new $450-million Torrance Memorial Medical Center Patient Tower. The project reached a major milestone when construction workers placed the final piece of structural steel on the 398,350-square-foot facility. McCarthy Building Companies, Inc., is serving as general contractor for the project that began construction in February 2010. During the steel erection phase, iron workers from Herrick Steel placed 5,820 pieces of structural steel within three months in order to build the frame for the new tower. The project team recently celebrated the topping out of structural steel during a … Read more

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January Construction Spending Slips from Year-End

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Construction spending inched down less than 0.1 percent in January, following a large upward revision in December and November, according to a new analysis of federal data released by the Associated General Contractors of America. All forms of residential construction did well for the month and year-over-year, while private nonresidential spending was mixed and public construction declined amid continued congressional delays in passing a host of long-term infrastructure and tax measures. “The strong gains in single-family homebuilding in December and January probably have a lot more to do with the unusually mild weather compared to year-ago conditions, than surging demand … Read more

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DPR Construction Tops Out Alta Bates Summit Medical Center Patient Care Pavilion

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OAKLAND, Calif., Feb. 28, 2012 — DPR Construction recently topped out of the $300-million Alta Bates Summit Medical Center Patient Care Pavilion, signifying completion of structural erection of the 250,000-square-foot ground-up project. DPR is the general contractor for the new facility that broke ground in 2010 and is scheduled to open in 2014. “Today marks the celebration of a traditional construction milestone for what has been anything but a traditional project,” said Jay Widdifield, project manager for DPR Construction. “The patient care pavilion is being built on a 1.5-acre site in the middle of the current Oakland urban hospital campus, … Read more

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AGC to Renovate Facility of Honolulu Charity

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Construction charity organization AGC Charities, Inc. announced it will renovate the facility of a Honolulu-based charity group that supports families with seriously ill children as part of its annual Operation Opening Doors event in March. As part of that effort, contractors will donate time, expertise and money to make a series of improvements to the headquarters of HUGS: Help, Understanding & Group Support for Hawaii’s seriously ill children and their families. “We are hoping to make life a little easier, convenient and safer for families that are being forced to endure too much stress, worry and pain,” said Tom Brown, … Read more

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