Construction Enquirer

MAY 25, 2023

The Government has added five hospital projects to its £20bn building programme due to the risk of structural collapse because of weak concrete. It will prioritise rebuilding the five hospitals by 2030, which used limited life-span reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (RACC) now at the end of its design life.

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Construction Enquirer

AUGUST 9, 2023

Laing O’Rourke has been named preferred construction partner for a new Cambridge cancer research hospital. The seven-storey, 26,000 sq m facility is set to be the first hospital delivered in the East of England as part of the Government’s New Hospital Programme.

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Construction Law

AUGUST 1, 2023

The promise made by former Prime Minister Boris Johnson in 2020 to build 40 “new hospitals” by 2030 was unlikely to have been taken seriously by many at the time. The construction industry, with a better idea than the Prime Minister about how long it takes to plan and build a new hospital, certainly didn’t swallow it.

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Construction Dive

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

University Health’s Palo Alto Hospital is one of two facilities being built by the state entity in the San Antonio metro area.

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Construction Enquirer

AUGUST 6, 2023

Kier has been appointed by the University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Trust (UHB) to deliver a three-year programme of capital works across its estate. The contractor will nowplay a lead role in the formulation, development, and implementation of UHB’s estate strategy across its four main hospital sites.

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BD+C

AUGUST 4, 2021

For them, the hospital room becomes the hub for treatment and meals, as well as the setting for the most hopeful and fearful conversations about their life. Unintentionally and unexpectedly, the hospital becomes home. Patients and families dealing with extended inpatient stays face long days of isolation.

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Construction Today

JANUARY 24, 2024

Built Inc Ltd, a subsidiary of the Built Hospitality Design Group, is a fully operational design-build firm based in California. s journey from residential projects to creative hospitality designs appeared first on Construction Today. Source The post Uncover Built Inc.’s

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BD+C

APRIL 29, 2021

HDR will design the new Cancer Hospital of the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences Shaoxing Campus. The modern hospital and research-oriented medical center will include elements of nature to help patients heal.

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BD+C

JUNE 10, 2021

Abrazo Cave Creek Hospital, a 35,000-sf hospital located in Cave Creek, Ariz., The new hospital features a 13-bed emergency department; an operating room and a three-bed pre-op/post-anesthesia care unit; eight inpatient rooms for overnight stays; an imaging suite for x-ray, ultrasound, and CT scans; and a laboratory.

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Construction Dive

APRIL 22, 2020

Contractors are also speeding up on some traditional hospital projects to quickly make room for a soaring number of COVID-19 patients.

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BD+C

JUNE 18, 2021

In an exclusive interview for HorizonTV, Landmark Developers ' President Frank Cretella talks about the firm's adaptive reuse projects for the hospitality sector. Cretella outlines his company's keys to success in hospitality development, including finding unique properties and creating memorable spaces.

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ENR Construction

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Turner Construction will lead a $565 million expansion to a Braselton, Georgia hospital, including nearly a quarter million sq ft of new clinical space, nearly doubling the facility's capacity after seven years of operation.

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ENR Construction

OCTOBER 13, 2021

The 33-bed, 235,000-sq-ft hospital reduces the distance that patients in this growing community must travel for health care services.

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ENR Construction

MARCH 16, 2022

The abandoned former Cook County Hospital building was a wreck. The term ‘fully depreciated’ was an understatement,” says Kenneth Johnston, senior project manager with Walsh Construction.

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ENR Construction

MAY 10, 2023

Designing the 323,000-sq-ft building to efficiently serve the hospital's program was one of the project's big challenges, says the design team.

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Construction Dive

JANUARY 31, 2020

The use of prefabricated panels will allow speedy construction of two hospitals, which will be built on pillars to keep the ground clear of contamination, according to the Wall Street Journal.

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Construction 142

BD+C

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

While hospitals are dedicated to healing, they are some of the most resource-intensive buildings on the planet. On average, they use twice the energy of most other building types. In the U.S., the healthcare system accounts for 10% of the nation’s total carbon dioxide emissions.

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ENR Construction

MAY 25, 2022

million, 154,800-sq-ft Orthopaedic and Spine Hospital for the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. In addition to the speedy pace, VDC, robots and pipe bursting are helping mitigate challenges on the $68.4-million,

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BD+C

MARCH 29, 2020

Last August 1, Uvalde (Texas) Memorial Hospital broke ground on a 170,000-sf, $83.5 million replacement hospital that is following a building model specifically for rural and underfunded communities, devised by this project’s general contractor Hoar Construction.

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Construction Dive

MARCH 25, 2024

The new healthcare center, located on the state’s Space Coast, was engineered to withstand a Category 4 hurricane.

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BD+C

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

The 300-bed hospital has views of the Pyramids of Giza and is set within a verdant landscape with a lake and seeks to optimize the overall patient experience and decrease recovery times. The site of the hospital borders the Zewail City of Science and Technology, forming part of an integrated health and medical research zone.

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Construction Dive

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

The contractor used drones to capture real-time views of progress on the 288,000-square-foot Petrocelli Surgical Pavilion project.

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New York Contractors 111

BD+C

JUNE 10, 2020

billion Basaksehir Cam and Sakura City Hospital, located near the North Anatolian fault of the Europe side of this city, features 2,068 seismic isolators. The largest base-isolated building in the world officially opened in earthquake-prone Istanbul, Turkey, on May 21. The 1-million-sm, $1.5

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BD+C

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

A new hospital in Wuhan, China, built to treat patients of the coronavirus outbreak, has finished construction in just 10 days, according to an Associated Press article.

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Construction Equipment

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Construction workers have a much higher risk of becoming hospitalized with Covid-19 than workers in other occupations, according to a new study from researchers with the University of Texas. Analyzing data from mid-March to mid-August on hospitalizations in Austin, Texas, the researchers found that…

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BD+C

MARCH 30, 2020

The American Hospital Association estimates that the U.S. has 924,000 hospital beds, or fewer than three beds for every 1,000 people. Less than 5% of those beds can be used for intensive-care patients. .

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BD+C

DECEMBER 4, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has strained the resources and exposed the vulnerabilities of many hospitals as they confront the most serious global health crisis in over a century. Yet infection control remains one of the most challenging aspects of hospital operations.

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Natural Building

DECEMBER 14, 2019

N epal’s Bayalpata Hospital won an international award in the Health Category at the Global Architecture Festival held in Amsterdam. The hospital in is a public-private partnership and is built almost entirely using rammed earth. Today, the hospital treats 100,000 patients a year.

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Construction Law

DECEMBER 3, 2023

The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) says in a report that it has no confidence government will deliver on promises made in 2020 to build 40 new hospitals. To read more of this and every other news story on this site, please log in with your Construction Law membership account details.

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Construction Equipment

MARCH 26, 2020

New York governor Andrew Cuomo accepted the recommendation of the Army Corps of Engineers for constructing four temporary hospital sites in New York State to house patients diagnosed with COVID-19. According to the New York State website, the four sites where the hospitals will be built are ready…

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Construction Equipment

JANUARY 27, 2020

China has begun building a new 1,000-bed hospital to treat victims of the coronavirus, and plans to have the building operational by February 3. According to News Sky, the hospital will be… Machinery including 35 diggers and 10 bulldozers arrived at the Wuhan, China, work site on Thursday night.

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BD+C

APRIL 15, 2019

A huge, complex project involving many facets of medical care and research in China is meant to be the vanguard hospital in a system of green-designed teaching hospitals to be built throughout the nation. Designed by HMC Architects, the sprawling three million-sf Shunde Hospital of Southern Medical University, in China , is now open.

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Construction Law

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) says in a report that it has no confidence government will deliver on promises made in 2020 to build 40 new hospitals. To read more of this and every other news story on this site, please log in with your Construction Law membership account details.

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BD+C

APRIL 6, 2020

spend much of my life thinking about hospital design. And these days, with the outbreak of novel coronavirus (COVID-19), I’m sure many people around the world are looking at their hospitals in new ways, as patients and staff try to stay healthy.

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ENR Construction

DECEMBER 8, 2021

This 16-story hospital in Hanoi is the result of several first-time achievements. It is the first hospital in Vietnam to implement the UK’s strict Health Building Note guidelines, which provide best practices for design and planning in health care facilities.

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BD+C

APRIL 23, 2020

The value of flexible hospital space is being demonstrated as administrators rush to increase the number of hospital ICU beds to meet the expected peak in COVID-19 cases. In many states, regulations require treatment rooms to be different sizes depending on the stage of patient care being provided.

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Construction Dive

JANUARY 10, 2024

The Maryland contractor delivered another Forth Worth healthcare facility on the same Army base four years ago.

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