Contractor Named for Three Major Queensland Hospital Expansions

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Three contracts have been awarded to construction contractor BESIX Watpac to deliver expansions at Ipswich, Townsville and Mackay Base Hospitals, located in Australia. These projects form part of the State Government’s Queensland Health and Hospitals Plan, which includes a record-breaking $9.7-billion investment in health over the next six years to deliver new hospitals in the state. Works at all three hospitals will be delivered in a live hospital campus. This will be carefully managed by the BESIX Watpac delivery teams to ensure the existing hospitals and services remain operational throughout construction. Townsville University Hospital expansion includes a new eight-story building (including … Read more

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Gilbane, Construction Partners Deliver University Hospitals Ahuja Medical Center Phase 2

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Gilbane Building Company and its construction partners, Regency Construction Services, Inc., Next Generation Construction and Adrian Maldonado & Associates, Inc. have completed University Hospitals Ahuja Medical Center Phase 2. Located in Beachwood, Ohio, the $236-million project nearly doubles the existing footprint of the hospital, which opened in 2011. HKS served as the project’s architect. UH Ahuja Medical Center Phase 2 features: New labor and delivery and other mother and baby services New neonatal intensive care unit (Level 2) Expanded emergency room growing from 22 beds to 30 beds Women’s health and comprehensive breast health center Expanded radiology to meet demands … Read more

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Construction Complete on Houston Methodist Sugar Land Medical Office Building

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Construction of two structures on the campus of Houston Methodist Sugar Land Hospital, located in the greater Houston, Texas area, is complete. The project included a six-story medical office building and an attached seven-level parking garage. Ground was broken in December 2021. McCarthy Building Companies served as the project construction manager, with Page as the project architect and Jacobs as the owner’s representative. The project scope included an MOB, totaling 160,000 square feet, while the garage consists of 1,100 spaces. Conditioned pedestrian bridges connect the new MOB to the existing campus buildings. A vehicle bridge connects the new garage to … Read more

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Construction Begins on 127K-SF Miami-Area Children’s Hospital Tower

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Nicklaus Children’s Hospital leaders and supporters joined together recently for a groundbreaking ceremony to celebrate the launch of the next phase of the hospital’s master facility plan, construction of a 127,000-square-foot surgical tower slated for completion in 2024. The tower will rise four stories above the hospital’s emergency department, located at the center of the main campus near Coral Gables, Florida. The surgical tower will enable the hospital to construct operating suites to replace existing operating rooms that are now 35 years old and lack the size and ceiling height necessary to fully accommodate the latest equipment, along with multidisciplinary … Read more

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New Trillium Health Partners Hospital Project to Fill Critical Need for Growing, Diverse Mississauga Community

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Planning, design and conformance services for Trillium Health Partners’ Mississauga Hospital project, located in Ontario, Canada, will be managed by Stantec. The new facility is a full replacement of the existing hospital and a critical part of THP’s plan to build a new kind of healthcare that serves the growing and diverse community for the decades ahead. The new Mississauga Hospital will increase flexibility to respond to future healthcare challenges, feature modern hospital facilities and technology and reflect the latest standards in infection prevention and control. It will continue to deliver highly specialized care through regional programs, such as the … Read more

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