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Arizona sees new patient tower

CHANDLER, Ariz.—Kitchell and Orcutt | Winslow have been selected to design and construct a new patient tower at Chandler Regional Medical Center, a member of Catholic Healthcare West (CHW). This project will expand capacity, enhance key service lines, and drive new office and medical development in the East Valley. photo courtesy of Orcutt|Winslow. The five-story inpatient tower is anticipated to remove capacity constraints with the addition of 96 inpatient beds. Site work on the $125 million project has begun and vertical construction of the tower scheduled to begin in November 2012. At the peak of construction it is estimated that the project will have a workforce of more than 200. It is expected to be complete by fall 2014.

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MD Anderson breaks ground

HOUSTON, Texas—The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center held a groundbreaking ceremony for the Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan Building for Personalized Cancer Care in preparation for construction of an HDR-designed structure.  The 12-story, 615,000-sq.ft. building will contain two laboratory and two office wings surrounding a central collaborative core.

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Visual art helps in ER

CONCORD, Calif. —A research report funded by The Center for Health Design’s Research Coalition provides insight into what carefully selected visual art can do to not only impact emergency room patient and visitor behavior but also the overall healthcare experience. The report, Impact of Visual Art on Waiting Behavior in the Emergency Department summarizes the methods used to select artwork and describes a systematic behavioral-observation tool used to study and report the behaviors of patients in the waiting rooms of two prominent hospitals.

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Skanska to expand duPont Hospital for Children

PARSIPPANY, N.J.—Skanska has secured the assignment to construct the expansion of the Nemours/Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children in Wilmington, Delaware.   The project is a five-story, 40,000 square meters, 144-bed expansion to the existing Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children. The project includes a 10,000 square meters, 188-car ground level parking garage below the new addition. The first floor will contain a new emergency department, atrium, retail, and dining facility. The expansion will be connected back to the existing facility with a three-story connecting link.

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Hospital gains parking structure

VALENCIA, Calif.—McCarthy Building Companies, Inc. , one of Southern California’s builders of parking structures, has begun construction on the Henry Mayo Newhall Memorial Hospital parking structure, located on the hospital’s 1.9-acre site in Santa Clarita, CA.

Designed by Irvine-based Choate Parking Consultants, the $10.1 million parking facility is the first major component of a 15-year master plan for the overall campus.  The 244,135-sq.ft., five-level structure will house parking for 750 cars, and includes a rooftop helipad.

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Driver gets three construction projects

LOS ANGELES—C.W. Driver, a builder serving the Western U.S. since 1919, has been awarded three construction projects for Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.

The projects include a renovation of the S. Mark Taper Foundation Imaging Center and the reconfiguring of the medical center’s Thalians Mental Health Center. These come on the heels of C.W. Drivers’ completion of two other projects on the Cedars-Sinai campus: a conversion of the hospital’s Post Anesthesia Care Unit and a series of projects in the Steven Spielberg building, which is also located on the campus.

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Francis Cauffman names lab planner

PHILADELPHIA—Francis Cauffman, a national architecture firm, has appointed Jennifer Browne as Director of Laboratory Planning.

Browne has been planning laboratories internationally for more than 30 years. She has experience with laboratories with biological safety levels 2, 3, 3-enhanced and 3Ag, vivariums and insectary facilities, and worked at Health, Education + Research Associates.

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