FORT MYERS, Fla.—Stevens Construction, a healthcare and commercial construction management firm, is celebrating its 20th year anniversary.

Named Contractor of the Year for ten years by the Lee Building Industry Association, Stevens Construction was founded in 2003 in Fort Myers by Mark Stevens. Earning a position on the Inc. 5000 as a fastest-growing private company in America for six years, the company employs 68 professionals throughout Fort Myers, Orlando and Sarasota.

Specializing in projects ranging from $100,000 to $80 million, Stevens Construction has crafted a custom construction management delivery method that guides clients throughout the design and development process, proven to save time and budget while fulfilling the client’s goals from project conception to beyond warranty.

Completing nearly $800 million in construction since inception, the company’s current projects include Surgical Healing Arts Center and Metro Alliance Surgery Center, Paramount Surgery Center, two locations of The Pickleball Club and The University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences. Additionally, the company’s special projects division, which focuses on projects under $1 million, have 18 projects currently under construction.

With offices in Orlando, Sarasota and Fort Myers, Stevens Construction specializes in providing construction management, general contracting and consulting services to clients and design professionals. Other services include site and design team selection, budgeting, project scheduling, permitting, cost and quality control and warranty service. The company builds commercial, healthcare and hospitality facilities.

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ORLANDO, Fla.—Skanska USA has announced the delivery of the Orlando Health Jewett Orthopedic Institute, a state-of-the-art medical facility in Downtown Orlando. Located at the corner of Lucerne Terrace and Columbia Street, the combined inpatient and outpatient facility will be dedicated solely to the care of orthopedic patients.

Spanning 375,000 square feet, the project was completed in two phases with the first phase encompassing the delivery of a six-story, medical office pavilion boasting 12 cutting-edge operating rooms and the latest advancements in medical technology, including imaging services such as an ultrafast magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) with augmented reality. A 62-exam room clinic, also housed in the pavilion, offers walk-in orthopedic care along with a physical therapy space featuring sports simulators for athletes. Phase two included a seven-story facility featuring the state’s first orthopedic hospital with 10 additional operating rooms, 75 inpatient smart rooms and a bioskills lab.

“Deeply ingrained in the communities it serves, Skanska is committed to revolutionizing healthcare construction by delivering innovative facilities that cater to the unique needs and demands of the local community,” said Tracy Hunt, senior vice president of Skanska’s Florida operations. “As the Central Florida region continues to expand, the need for new, additional healthcare facilities or improvements to existing systems is critical, and Skanska looks forward to continuing its role in improving Florida’s healthcare sector.”

Designed by architecture firm Page Southerland Page, Inc., the Orlando Health Jewett Orthopedic Institute brings together the two most respected orthopedic and sports medicine practices in Central Florida with the Jewett Orthopaedic Clinic, and Orlando Health, home to the region’s only Level One Trauma Centers for adults and children.

As a leader in healthcare construction, Skanska has recently completed several transformative hospital and medical projects throughout Florida. Currently, Skanska is leading work on the construction of a new, 580,000-square-foot, seven-story acute care hospital in Lakeland, Florida.

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ORLANDO—FCA, a leading New York and Philadelphia-based architecture and design firm, announced today that it has acquired legacy firm, Fred M. Humphrey & Associates. Together, the firms will share their regional presence, knowledge, and relationships to design spaces uniquely suited to the needs of those who use them.

“FCA is thrilled to have a firm with such a rich history in Central Florida join our team. With experience supporting medical institutions over the last several decades, Fred M. Humphrey & Associates will bring their expertise and intimate knowledge of the area to further establish FCA as a design leader in the Southeast,” says Aran McCarthy AIA, Principal, Healthcare, FCA.

Originally founded in 1954, FCA opened its Orlando office in September of 2019, focusing on healthcare after following clients in the medical field from the northeast region. The acquisition of Fred M. Humphrey & Associates will bring a depth of experience and a new level of service to the firm’s legacy clients. The consolidation of knowledge between these organizations will enable FCA to continue serving existing clients within the healthcare space while supporting the firm’s plans for growth both regionally and within the S&T, workplace, and education sectors.

Fred M. Humphrey & Associates was formed by the husband and wife team of Roseann Latta and Fred Humphrey in 1974. Roseann has served a large clientele of Florida-based health systems over the last several decades, with over 30 years of first round project approvals from AHCA (Agency for Health Care Administration). As a principal of FCA, Roseann and her dedicated team will continue to serve their clients while further building on the strength of FCA’s foundation as a national design firm.

FCA’s new Florida office will be located in Winter Park.

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ORLANDO—Sweden-based international construction and development firm Skanska’s U.S. affiliate has signed a deal to construct the 371,000-square-foot Orlando Health Jewett Orthopedic Institute in downtown Orlando.

The $187 million medical pavilion and outpatient surgery center were designed by EYP Architecture & Engineering.  The design plans call for 75 inpatient rooms and 10 operating rooms spread out over eight stories of medical use space.  Additionally, an adjacent medical office building will host an additional 12 operating rooms when completed.

Portions of the $187 million construction project were already paid to Skanska, with $63.33 million set aside in the final quarter of 2020.

The outpatient surgery center is due to be finished near the end of 2022, with the orthopedic hospital itself coming online sometime the following year, which will add an estimated 500 jobs to the local economy.

In a recent statement, Michael C. Brown, executive vice president and general manager of Skanska USA’s building operations in Florida, said that his firm has partnered with Orlando Health on several other healthcare projects as the Southeast’s medical needs have increased over the years in line with an uptick in population.

“With this latest partnership, we will further enhance and grow the system’s state-of-the-art facilities to better serve patients in the Central Florida community,” Brown said.

Skanska’s other Florida projects include the Salah Foundation Children’s Hospital at Broward Health as well as Gulf Coast Medical Center in Fort Myers.

Skanska’s American operations brought in $7.6 billion of revenue in 2019 alone.  Its American headquarters are located in New York, with nearly 30 other satellite offices around the United States employing 8,000 professionals.

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