ATLANTA—McCarthy Building Companies, Inc. has announced the completion of new cardiovascular care facilities at Emory University Hospital (EUH). Located on the third and fourth floors of the EUH Tower, the facility was a result of an $87.7 million investment from Emory Healthcare, breaking ground in October 2023 to expand and enhance operations for Emory Heart & Vascular’s growing patient population. The newly completed third-floor space welcomed its first patients on March 19. Additional project partners include BDR Partners as the program manager, Haskell Company as the architect and WSP as the engineering consultant.

The 80,000-square-foot facility now houses a 16-bed cardiovascular intensive care unit that reinforces patient-centered experiences and facilitates more streamlined collaboration across Emory Heart & Vascular’s specialized care teams. The world-class facility includes a new suite of cardiovascular and thoracic operating rooms, a robotic surgical room housing Emory’s Davinci Xi robot, and catheterization and electrophysiology laboratories – all fitted with state-of-the-art technology and the latest in medical equipment. The new robotic surgery room allows for more precise procedures using smaller incisions, which ensures safer surgeries and quicker patient recovery times. More details on the many exciting features of the new space can be found in the Emory News Center story here.

“This project represents another successful collaboration with the Emory Healthcare team and we are honored to have played a part in enhancing the hospital’s position as a future-focused facility with national recognition,” said Bobby Campbell, executive vice president at McCarthy Building Companies. “Working within an active hospital setting poses many challenges, but McCarthy ensured minimal disruption to hospital operations throughout all phases of construction. Our strategic approach was focused on providing an excellent product while supporting Emory’s best-in-class patient experience.”

“This reimagined space will greatly enhance the patient experience and provide an outstanding environment for our team members to deliver care,” Emory Healthcare CEO Joon Lee, MD, who is also a cardiologist, said in a statement from Emory. “For years, Emory Heart & Vascular has been considered a regional and national leader in cardiology interventions, treatments and procedures. With this expanded space, we are excited to bring Emory-level care to even more members of our community.”

In addition to the inherent challenges of working within a bustling hospital environment, McCarthy faced additional hurdles concerning the surrounding floors. The task at hand involved installing four new air handling units and two chillers, requiring extensive coordination to navigate road closures, reroute buses for equipment delivery and work around existing ductwork. Through meticulous planning and seamless teamwork across all phases – from initial planning to construction and turnover – McCarthy was able to overcome these obstacles, ensuring successful completion of the project.

“These new heart and vascular facilities will allow us to greatly enhance patient care, grow procedural capacity and access, and continue to foster innovation and excellence across the whole service line,” Angel Leon, MD, executive director of Emory Heart & Vascular, said in a statement. “I could not be prouder of our team at this moment.”

McCarthy and Emory Healthcare’s partnership began in 2012 when McCarthy was contracted to build the Emory University Hospital Tower, a $253 million and 450,000-square-foot project. The hospital tower houses several departments and services, including radiology, pharmacy, oncology, dialysis, intensive care unit and bone marrow transplant. The tower was completed in 2018 – and was awarded a LEED Silver certification and won the ENR Regional award for Best Healthcare Project. Emory University Hospital is among 10 hospitals affiliated within the Emory Healthcare system, headquartered in Atlanta.

McCarthy is one of the Southeast’s leading healthcare builders, completing more than 60 healthcare projects in the southern region in the past five years.

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CARTERSVILLE, Ga.—McCarthy Building Companies, Inc. has celebrated the topping out of the North Tower vertical expansion at Piedmont Cartersville Medical Center in Bartow County near Atlanta. The project broke ground in August 2022 and is scheduled to be completed in November 2023.

Adding two floors to the existing three-story tower, the 43,122-square-foot vertical expansion will provide additional support space and general storage for hospital staff on the new fourth floor, while the fifth floor will house 20 beds for short stay patients at the hospital. The project also includes the renovation and expansion of the existing Sterile Processing Department which will feature 11,000 square feet of additional space.

Piedmont Cartersville is one of 22 hospitals in the Piedmont Healthcare system based out of Atlanta. Over the course of five years, McCarthy has completed over $50 million and 124,000-square-feet of projects for Piedmont Healthcare, including work for the healthcare system’s Piedmont Atlanta, Athens Regional, Columbus, Newton and Rockdale campuses. McCarthy was awarded the Piedmont Cartersville project in June 2022.

“This project marks another exciting partnership with Piedmont Healthcare, and we are proud to play a part in the hospital system’s growth as we work to enhance its ability to provide excellent healthcare services and additional comfort and care for patients in Bartow County,” said Mark Cleverly, project director at McCarthy Building Companies, Inc. “The complexity, scale and scope of the project required strategic solutions to bring the project from ground breaking to topping out, and we are pleased to have successfully reached this phase of the build out. We look forward to celebrating the completion of the expansion later this year.”

Located adjacent to the hospital’s surgical unit, the Sterile Processing Department still needed to be 100% functional throughout construction in order to minimize the level of disruption to this sensitive area, McCarthy worked closely with Piedmont Healthcare’s construction management team, the hospital’s C-suite and facilities management teams during the pre-construction phase to accommodate these needs. By utilizing a mobile sterilizing unit from Steris, McCarthy will be able to completely close off the department while keeping all sterilization operations functional, significantly reducing costs and the overall project timeline by several months.

According to recent data from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis (FRED), healthcare construction has surged as hospitals increasingly update and expand service wings, upgrade mechanical, electrical and plumbing systems and add new treatments to better serve growing populations and provide the latest healthcare advances. Construction spending for healthcare facilities is projected to reach $45.8 billion in 2023, a 14% jump from 2022 activity.

McCarthy is one of the South’s leading healthcare builders, completing more than 60 healthcare projects in the southern region in the past five years. Additional project partners include TMPartners as the architect, I. C. Thomasson Associates as the mechanical engineer, Stanley D. Lindsey and Associates, Ltd. as the structural engineer and Meadows & Ohly as the program manager.

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TYLER, Texas—McCarthy Building Companies, Inc. has hit an important milestone in the construction of the Northeast Texas Cancer and Research Institute in Tyler. McCarthy, the general contractor on the project, and its trade partners celebrated “topping out” in February. A Cottonwood Development project, the 85,000-square-foot research facility is located on the CHRISTUS Mother Frances Hospital – Tyler campus and will provide outpatient care to surrounding communities. McCarthy broke ground on the project in May 2021 and is expected to complete construction in September of this year.

The Northeast Texas Cancer and Research Institute will consist of specialized areas for Texas Oncology, Tyler’s largest oncology provider, including 30,000 square feet of clinic space for medical, radiation and gynecologic oncology services, and nearly 3,000 square feet dedicated to research. These areas will also contain three linear accelerators for radiation therapy, 52 chemotherapy infusion stations – including six allotted to research – and four private rooms as well as pharmacy and lab services and a patient exercise area.

Within the Institute, CHRISTUS Health will have a 7,500-square-foot advanced imaging center with 3T MRI, PET/CT, ultrasound, nuclear medicine and more. An additional 10,000 square feet of clinic space will be used to support the surgical oncology programs of Louise Herrington Cancer Center, an inpatient facility located within CHRISTUS Mother Frances Hospital – Tyler, providing advanced, inpatient care for complex cancer patients. The project includes a 620-car parking garage.

“We’re actively involving the design team and a physicist in our MEP coordination efforts,” said Tim Campbell, senior project manager for McCarthy. “The linear accelerators and imaging equipment have all required MEP infrastructure coordinated with the requirements of the shielding systems and owner furnished imaging systems. This has been a uniquely challenging project, and we’re excited to celebrate this milestone as we move towards completion.”

McCarthy self-performed earthwork for the Cancer Center and installed all underground MEP components for the tenant spaces ahead of schedule. This allowed McCarthy, which is also self-performing concrete for the Cancer Center as well as the Linear Accelerator Vaults, to pour the slabs-on-grade on schedule without having to go back to remove concrete for underground infrastructure. McCarthy had two mass concrete placements in August, totaling over 2,200 CY of concrete for the Linear Accelerator vaults. These are concrete vaults with 6-foot-thick walls and a 6-foot-thick lid, constructed of high-density concrete. Adhering to mass concrete principles, this required the use of liquid nitrogen in the concrete mix. These vault walls were poured monolithically in a continuous pour in order not to have any joints for radiation to leak through. Challenged with soaring Texas summer temperatures, McCarthy replaced all the water in the concrete mixers with ice to bring the temperature of the concrete down below 75 degrees at point of placement.

In addition to the Northeast Texas Cancer and Research Institute, some of McCarthy’s health care projects include the recently-completed Parkland Moody Center for Breast Health in Dallas, CHRISTUS Spohn in Corpus Christi, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Alkek Hospital Expansion in Houston, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center The Pavilion expansion in Houston, the Children’s Health Plano Campus, Specialty Center II, and the Carl R. Darnall Army Medical Center Replacement at Fort Hood, Texas by Balfour Beatty | McCarthy joint venture.

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