This much-needed 397,000-square-foot acute care healthcare facility is a fast-track project that will serve the College Station, Texas community. It features a concrete frame, and a brick and limestone finish on the base with metal panel and curtain wall around the bed tower. Construction includes all entries and site loop roads, parking for approximately 1,000 cars, a 125,000-square-foot ambulatory clinic, and an on-site water reclamation pond that also will serve as irrigation water for the new site. Future plans include adding a four-story medical office building. The hospital and ambulatory facility will be built within 90 days of each other.

• Kitchell as Construction Manager at Risk
• Greenfield facility
• Anticipated to open summer 2013

Kitchell modernized this 286-bed community hospital with a $13.8 million addition to the central plant which completely upgraded the original non-conforming central plant built in the 1960s.
Kitchell began working with the owner on this project since its inception 10 years ago. Many changes had to be made to the original 2D design especially in the area of Building Information Technology (BIM) which was woven, to great benefit, into the final design. Kitchell’s 3D modeling incorporated analysis of the skin, reviews of interiors, and verification of scope.

• 100% OSHPD inspection pass rate, right from the start
• Kitchell’s onsite architect provided constructable solutions to issues as they arose, greatly expediting the entire project (while saving money)

A joint venture between Kitchell and J. Reese Construction, the 15,220-square-foot Barnhart Cancer Center’s uniquely designed radiation treatment area is the only one in San Diego and one of only a few in the country to feature an outdoor tree garden, decorative rock wall and direct natural sunlight. Treatment technology includes:

• High-dose rate brachytherapy
• Image-guided radiation therapy
• Intensity modulated radiation therapy
• Stereotactic radiosurgery
• TrueBeam™

• 45,453 square feet total
• 15,220-square-foot cancer treatment area
• 10,000-square-foot medical office space
• CT scan rooms
• Radiation therapy chambers
• Indoor & outdoor healing gardens

As a leading tertiary-care referral center for the southwestern United States, the University of Arizona Medical Center (UMC) was looking to expand its existing facilities. Kitchell had previously completed a successful five-year remodel and expansion at the campus, and UMC again turned to Kitchell’s experience and commitment as a construction manager at risk for its new expansion. The expansion included a number of updates to the existing space as well as more than 223,500 square feet of new space. Improvements include: a 215,000-square-foot, six-story bed tower vertical addition, two adult ICU units for 40 new beds, and two medical/surgery units with 48 new beds. Three floors of the new tower were built out in phase 1, and three were initially shell space before becoming southern Arizona’s first children’s hospital – Diamond Children’s Medical Center.

Construction Manager at Risk

• Southern Arizona’s first pediatric hospital
• Western Council of Construction Consumers Outstanding Project Award
• RED (Real Estate & Development Award) "Best Medical Project" winner
• Southwest Contractor Award of Merit, Best Healthcare Project

This project is employing a unique method of project management, in which a board of directors oversees design and construction progress with six distinct teams reporting to it. As a design-build partner, Kitchell is designing, procuring and engineering the installation of massive curved glass panels enveloping the curtain wall. This project is comprised of a 495,000-square-foot, 246-bed addition and a 40,000 square-foot central plant addition along with 70,000 square feet of renovations to the existing space. Once completed, the new 10-story (eight above and two below ground) tower will include a comprehensive list of services including: women and infant program, NICU/post partum unit, medical/surgical/bariatric facilities, cancer center, labs, pharmacy, and an imaging department. It will house an intraoperative MRI and CT, the first in the nation.

High-Performing Team (IPD Concept)

• Anticipated opening December 2016
• Full-scale operating room mock-up made entirely out of foam to accurately map out hospital's finished look and feel, saving millions in design costs and change orders

The only pediatric medical center serving major suburbs east of metropolitan Phoenix, the seven-story, 206-bed facility includes an expanded neonatal intensive care unit, six pediatric operating rooms featuring 25 private, child-friendly pre- and post-op areas, a multi-purpose “medical free” auditorium, an on-site school staffed by teachers, and a designated teen floor. The hospital also offers an expanded pediatric emergency department, an outpatient treatment center, a pediatric radiology department, rehabilitation unit, cancer and blood disorder unit, and pediatric intensive care unit, with shell space for future expansion.

• Construction involved melding existing with the new – above, below and on either side – in multiple phases
• Original "as-built" drawings didn't always reflect changes from original design or didn't exist, so project team created a "bible" showing exactly how project was constructed
• Central plant expansion included detailed phasing plan for installing and bringing online two new cooling towers before removing old ones

The UNM Sandoval Regional Medical Center and UNM Medical Group Office Building are on 60 acres of the Rio Rancho Campus of the University of New Mexico West. The 182,500-square-foot hospital will include teaching, clinical, patient, and support space for inpatient and outpatient hospital services, as well as registration, admissions, cafeteria, medical records, etc. The hospital is designed to offer emergency, lab, radiology, anesthesia, surgical, ICU, OB, medical oncology, and newborn services. Anticipating future need, the master plan includes provisions for the hospital to expand to 300 beds so the new facility will have many features not ordinarily found in a 48-bed hospital. The medical office building is 67,000 square feet.

Construction Manager at Risk

• HUD issued a $143.4 million mortgage insurance commitment to finance construction
• Project will support 1,877 jobs in Sandoval County and provide an economic stimulus of $386.4 million during the construction period.
• Completed project will directly support 445 jobs and provide a direct annual economic benefit of $85.8 million.

Phoenix Children's Hospital’s new 11-story pediatric tower enables it to serve its pediatric patients with 168 new beds, as well as high-quality outpatient care in new clinics housed on site. Modeled on a night-blooming desert flower and visible from all over the Valley, the building is visually striking. However, it is the inner workings of the hospital that are most remarkable--all designed and built with the highest quality patient care, comfort of patients and families, and proximity of specialties in mind. The project, Kitchell's largest in the healthcare market, also included a new central plant, renovations, and two parking garages, which had to be built in a highly active environment in a busy metropolitan area. The Phoenix landmark was completed four months ahead of schedule and $48 million under budget.

• Golden Trowel Award, World of Concrete
• Valley Forward Environmental Technologies Merit Award for Central Energy Plant
• ENR Specialty Award for Steel
• American Concrete Institute Award
• Modern Healthcare Design Award

This five-story, 180,000-square-foot patient tower is anticipated to remove capacity constraints in the East Valley with the addition of 96 inpatient beds. The $125 million project is estimated to have a workforce of more than 200 at the peak of construction. It is expected to be complete by fall 2014. The expansion will accommodate the hospital’s emergency and medical-surgical services, with 32 intensive care and private cardiovascular intensive care rooms, 64 telemetry and medical-surgical beds, six additional operating suites, ancillary support, and infrastructure, including a second helipad, chapel, kitchen and dining area, central plant, and 275 parking spaces. The patient tower follows a cardiovascular department expansion, encompassing two cardiac catheterization laboratories, an additional nine-bed pre/post cardiac short stay unit and ancillary support infrastructure.

• Groundbreaking November 2012
• Expected completion fall 2014