Joint Venture to Collaborate on $5B Pediatric Campus in Dallas

Children’s Health and UT Southwestern Medical Center have selected HKS and Perkins&Will as the integrated design team to collaborate on a new pediatric campus in Dallas to meet the demands of the growing North Texas population. McCarthy Vaughn Partnership — a joint venture of McCarthy Building Companies and J.T. Vaughn Construction — will serve as construction manager for the $5-billion project. The new campus, which will replace the existing Children’s Health hospital in Dallas, is designed to be one of the largest, most transformative pediatric hospitals in the nation and will include 4.5 million square feet of construction. Children’s Health … Read more

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Ground Broken on Health Center for San Carlos Apache Community

A groundbreaking event in Southeastern Arizona recently marked the start of construction on the new Clarence Wesley Health Center in Bylas, a 34,000-square-foot healthcare facility that will better serve the San Carlos Apache Tribe’s Bylas community. The project team includes Willmeng Construction and Cuningham Architects. The Clarence Wesley Health Center will provide the San Carlos Apache community with a modern medical facility that can host a broader range of vital healthcare offerings. The new facility will replace the existing, smaller building. The larger facility will give the tribe the opportunity to expand and upgrade its services, including the expansion of … Read more

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New Novant Health $154M Ballantyne Hospital, Medical Office Building Complete

Construction of the new Novant Health Ballantyne Medical Center campus in Charlotte, North Carolina is complete. Robins & Morton served as the general contractor and HDR served as the architect. The $154-million investment brings acute care resources to the growing suburban population in South Charlotte through a 216,236-square-foot hospital, which includes a 57,509-square-foot medical office building. The historic site, previously owned by Hall Family Farm, was transformed into a 38-acre hospital and MOB offering services including emergency care, inpatient, women’s care, expanded diagnostic services and surgical services. Keeping the tradition of community alive, space for community events was also built … Read more

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Healthcare Building at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center Tops Out

The Clark Construction team delivering the P-114 Medical Center Addition and Alteration at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland reached a significant milestone with the completion of structural concrete on the medical campus’s new healthcare facility (Building C). Members of the construction team joined representatives from the Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command, the Defense Health Agency, Medical Facilities Program Office, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center Command and the project’s craftworkers recently to commemorate the milestone with a topping-out celebration. Over the last year, crews have poured 35,276 cubic yards of concrete to bring Building C to … Read more

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California, Kansas Safety Organizations First to Approve STARC Systems’ FireblockWall

STARC Systems recently announced HCAI and the Kansas Office of the State Fire Marshal have approved FireblockWall for use in their state. FireblockWall is the first modular reusable one-hour fire-rated temporary containment system and is used to stop fires and keep patients, staff and visitors safe in healthcare environments. Designed to contain fire and smoke for a predetermined amount of time, fire-rated walls are part of a building’s passive fire protection system. Whether permanent or temporary, these walls are inspected against applicable code by the appropriate regulatory authorities, with the goal of preventing fire from spreading from one part of … Read more

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