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Project News expand and consolidate its services, integrating inpatient beds, outpatient clinics and a full-service surgical suite into a freestanding, signature building. L.F. Driscoll Company, LLC served as construction manager for the project. Two floors of the building house 72 patient rooms, distributed in four distinct wings, and are tailored to serve a variety of needs, including: medical-surgery, pediatric intensive and hematology/oncology. The ground floor includes central services and infrastructure that serve the entire medical center, including a central pharmacy, blood bank and radiology and diagnostic unit. Patient rooms include accommodations for parents to sleep, work and access entertainment. Patients' siblings can use such amenities as a performance stage or indoor and outdoor play areas dedicated to different ages. In common areas, throughout and around the building, patients and their families find distractions and amenities, and are engaged to learn through discovery and play. CHILDREN'S: MCCARTHY BUILDING COMPANIES, INC. GS&P; completes 450K SF replacement hospital in northwest Indiana Gresham, Smith and Partners has completed Porter Regional Hospital, a 450,000-square-foot replacement hospital in Valparaiso, Ind. The new six-story facility replaces a 73-yearold county hospital and supports the medical needs of the region's fastgrowing Porter, Lake, Jasper, Newton and Starke counties. Robins & Morton served as general contractor for the project. www.mcdmag.com IPD fosters success on new Children's Hospital Colorado East Tower Children's Hospital Colorado marked its fifth anniversary on the Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora, Colo., by announcing the official completion of a new 10-story, East Tower addition by the joint venture team of McCarthy Building Companies, Inc. and GH Phipps Construction Companies. The tower project reunited the joint venture with design partners H+L Architecture and ZGF Architects LLP, the same design and construction team that completed Children's in 2007. The new 335,000-square-foot tower was completed under an Integrated Project Delivery tri-party agreement that minimized cost and schedule risk for the hospital. The new East Tower initially adds 94 beds to Children's, with later The new hospital includes a 229-bed patient tower, 36 outpatient rooms, an emergency department, a 32-bed ICU, a Center for Cardiovascular Medicine and a Women's and Children's Pavilion. The facility is located on a 104-acre site less expansion available in five floors of shelled space in order to reach a capacity of 500 beds for Children's Hospital. The new tower helps the hospital expand its focus on specialty services, including housing the Colorado Institute for Maternal and Fetal Health. The addition also provides space for the hospital's Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders, the Children's Colorado Heart Institute, Orthopedics Institute, Neurosciences Institute, Digestive Health Institute, Breathing Institute and intensive care. The new tower is the anchor for the $230-million project, which also includes renovations to the existing hospital that will continue through 2014. In bringing the East Tower on line, Children's comprises 1.8-million-square-feet on the Anschutz Medical Campus. than 1 mile from the local toll road. Many of the hospital's private patient rooms feature views of the Chicago skyline; northwest Indiana residents are spared an hour-long drive into the city for high-quality medical care. January/February 2013 | Medical Construction & Design 7