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Project News In brief Eastern Maine Medical Center recently broke ground on a 361,000-square-foot heart vascular center, surgical and inpatient building in Bangor, Maine. The $247-million modernization project was designed by MorrisSwitzer~Environments for Health. The project design included input from the community and caregivers with a special focus on creating an efficient and sustainable environment. The construction manager for the facility is a partnership between Cianbro and Brasfield & Gorrie. The project is scheduled for completion in 2016. enabling operators to instantaneously reduce glare and solar gain. The glaze was installed in the hospital's two-story lobby to minimize the energy needed to heat and cool the large atrium space. More than 200 geothermal heat pumps were installed throughout the building, including one in each patient room. The pumps take advantage of the earth's natural heat sink and use water to distribute heat throughout the facility — a strategy which is seven times more efficient than air at carrying heat. NICU renovations near completion for Omaha Children's Hospital Neonatal intensive care unit renovations are nearly complete at Children's Hospital & Medical Center in Omaha, Neb. The new design by LEO A DALY will increase family privacy, provide more caregiver space in the patient rooms and streamline communication for staff. All phases of the renovations will be completed this fall. LEO A DALY is also working with Kurt Salmon Associates on the master plan for a future expansion of the hospital campus. To minimize the cost of the project, the design team kept the existing headwall layouts and designed around the basic infrastructure. Nurse work areas were relocated and grouped around a central support core that streamlines communication and still provides proximity to patient rooms. The interior design honors the original "bugs and insects" theme, but adds bright color accents to create distinction between rooms. Green and purple tones replace muted pastels to evoke a more positive, healing energy. The renovated NICU will support a new in-house program for high-risk deliveries, as well as other postsurgical and special-needs patients. A fetal care center under construction will include a delivery operating room, an infant resuscitation room and a recovery area for mothers. The NICU operates on two floors and is joined by a skywalk to Children's Hospital. Kitchell celebrates opening of new Scott & White Hospital-College Station Kitchell recently completed construction of the new Scott & White HospitalCollege Station, a five-story, 143-bed capacity acute care facility in Texas. Construction of the 403,000-squarefoot hospital, which was designed by Jacobs Engineering, began in early 2011. The project includes a four-story medical office building. The 98-acre Scott & White Hospital-College Station houses an emergency department, comprehensive cardiac services including cardiac catheterization labs, neonatal intensive care unit and many other specialty services. 8 Medical Construction & Design | November/December 2013 Westlake Reed Leskosky recently completed the rehabilitation medicine building for the Phoenix VA Health Care System. The 37,000-square-foot addition co-locates physical medicine and rehabilitation services with prosthetic services in a new, flexible facility. Westlake Reed Leskosky provided integrated architecture, engineering and technology design services for the project. RCDS Contractors, Inc. served as general contractor. Construction has begun on a renovation and expansion project at Craig Hospital in Denver, Colo. The current campus is split among two facilities, and plans call for a new pedestrian plaza to connect the two via a single patient drop-off point. The addition will encompass two inpatient units that will be outfitted with all private rooms. The remainder of the new addition's square footage will contain the new home for a wellness center. The project team includes construction manager GE Johnson Construction Co. and design firms RTA Architects and SmithGroupJJR. McGrath & Associates has completed work on a $1.5-million expansion of the Saint Louis University Hospital emergency department. The emergency department treats more than 2,200 trauma patients from throughout Missouri and southern Illinois, and more than 39,000 patients in the emergency department each year. The 4,000-square-foot expansion project added five treatment rooms, a nurses' station, work and storage spaces and a twostation registration area with three offices. The design team included BSA LifeStructures and KJWW Consulting Engineers. www.mcdmag.com ST. ROSE NICU: A.F. PAYNE PHOTOGRAPHIC, INC.; METHODIST: JEFFREY JACOBS PHOTOGRAPHY Omaha Children's Hospital McCarthy Building Companies, Inc. completed construction five weeks ahead of schedule for a $115-million orthopedic hospital for Mercy in Springfield, Mo. The fourstory hospital includes 10 operating rooms, 48 inpatient beds, a clinic, café and retail pharmacy. The project employed approximately 2,000 craftspeople, with 93 percent of subcontracted work performed by local contractors. HKS served as project architect.