ORLANDO—Balfour Beatty has successfully delivered the new AdventHealth Training Center in downtown Orlando which serves as the training site for the Orlando Magic and a destination sports medicine center to Central Florida. The facility celebrated its official grand opening at a ceremonial event on August 31 with Orlando Magic, AdventHealth, Balfour Beatty executives and construction partners and AdventHealth sponsored athlete, Wendell Carter, Jr.

The completion of the state-of-the-art training center is a major achievement for the DeVos Family, Orlando Magic and AdventHealth partnership in building an innovative health and wellness model that brings whole-person medicine, science and research together to optimize sports performance, while bringing those learnings to the broader community.

Balfour Beatty served as general contractor and HOK provided design services for the $70 million project which features a 130,000-square-foot facility located on a nearly four-acre site at South Division Avenue and West Central Boulevard, one block away from the Amway Center. The facility includes an NBA training facility for the Orlando Magic and an AdventHealth outpatient clinic which marks the latest investment in the Parramore community.

“Balfour Beatty is honored to have the opportunity to deliver a state-of-the-art facility for the Orlando Magic and AdventHealth services in Central Florida,” said Scott Skidelsky, Balfour Beatty president in the Southeast. “The construction of the new AdventHealth Training Center is an industry-leading example of health and wellness buildings aimed at providing innovative training, performance and medical services for professional athletes and the local community. I’d like to congratulate our project team and partners for their role in providing a premier facility this is now the training home of the Orlando Magic and world-class medical care.”

Orlando Magic’s approximately 100,000-square-foot practice and training facility is designed to optimize player performance and provide world-class recovery space. A large team “living room” acts as the facility’s hub, complete with enhanced nutrition offerings and full kitchen. Leading training and recovery technologies, including an altitude chamber and hydrotherapy offerings as well as an expansive locker room with high-end finishes will elevate the player experience. The facility includes two full-size practice courts overlooked by an elevated viewing balcony.

To take advantage of Orlando’s warm climate, the design includes covered exterior patios and decks, a creatively landscaped outdoor team space and indoor/outdoor training space. The facility includes front office and hospitality spaces that celebrate the Orlando Magic’s brand and history. Additionally, the project incorporates sustainable design strategies including daylighting and strategic sun shading, stormwater management, and advanced mechanical and lighting systems and controls.

“We want to thank Balfour Beatty for assisting us in making our goals and vision a reality,” said Magic CEO Alex Martins. “Through much hard work, a commitment to local woman and minority owned contractors and with a great deal of determination, we have developed a world-class training center for our Magic players, coaches and support staff that is stacked with the resources and technology to make it one of the best in the NBA. Our players, coaches and staff can’t wait to get in and get started.”

The completion of the AdventHealth Training Center adds to Balfour Beatty’s portfolio of work with the Orlando Magic, a construction partnership which includes the delivery of previous small continuing works projects at Amway Center.

AdventHealth’s new 33,300-square foot medical center – designed for elite athletes, as well as youth athletes and weekend warriors – provides world-class, multi-discipline medicine with a focus on whole-person health and sports science. Services will include orthopedics, primary care, sports medicine, imaging, rehabilitation and sports performance. Patients will also have access to AdventHealth’s network of sports-trained gastroenterologists, cardiologists, sleep, psychology and nutrition experts.

“AdventHealth and the Orlando Magic have a shared a longtime commitment to inspiring and helping our neighbors be the healthiest they can be. Through our partnership, we’ve cared for Central Florida in a variety of ways, and I’m excited for this new opportunity to expand our philosophy of whole-person care to whole-athlete care,” said Randy Haffner, president and CEO of AdventHealth’s Central Florida Division. “Whether you’re working to get back to playing in the yard with your grandkids, completing your first 5k or dreaming of going pro, our sports medicine experts are ready to support your personal health and athletic goals. The AdventHealth Training Center is a resource for all, and I’m excited for this next chapter in our partnership.”

Balfour Beatty and its partners worked with the Orlando Magic and AdventHealth to award  $17 million in design and construction contracts for the project to 33 local Minority and Women-Owned Business Enterprises (MWBE). That amount represented approximately 32 percent of awarded opportunities, which is over the city’s recommended 24 percent MWBE participation goal.

The training facility and sports medicine center is now open to the Central Florida community, and welcomes current Orlando Magic NBA players, including the team’s No. 1 overall draft pick, Paolo Banchero, and prospective free agents and staff.

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PHILADELPHIA — The University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia held a groundbreaking ceremony for its new hospital on May 3. The new “Pavilion” will be located on Penn Medicine’s West Philadelphia campus — located at the former site of Penn Tower — where it will house inpatient care for the Abramson Cancer Center, heart and vascular medicine and surgery, neurology and neurosurgery and a new emergency department. Completion of the new pavilion is expected in 2021.

The new, 16-story, 1.5 million-square foot facility has a budget of $1.5 billion. The design and construction of the project is a collaborative effort between multiple firms. PennFIRST, an integrated project delivery team in Philadelphia is completing the planning and design process for the new hospital with global health care design firm HDR, as well as the international architectural firm Foster + Partners. BR+A is the engineering designer, with construction management experts L.F. Driscoll in Bala Cynwyd and Balfour Beatty Construction in Dallas, also on the project. Additionally, Penn Medicine’s clinical and facilities experts are part of this collaborative team, as well as the input of patients and related family advocates.

The design team had the minimization of patient stress on the forefront of building design for the new facility, with a goal of maximizing patient care and treatment, according to Troy Parks, senior communications specialist at HDR. As such, the hospital is designed to divide into smaller “neighborhoods” to provide a greater sense of community, and create a warmer feeling overall for the hospital. Plentiful daylight and landscape views will be present at this new facility, with the intention of optimizing the health and wellbeing of its occupants, according to Parks.

The new Pavilion will have 500 new private patient rooms and 47 operating and interventional rooms. These patient rooms were designed with “long-term flexibility” so that they can adapt and change over time with “minimal impact to the building fabric,” according to Parks. The rooms are designed in such a way that they can transform from intensive care related needs to a standard room as patients recover over time. Additionally, all private patient rooms have a uniform design to maximize patient care, and include a private bath and a comfortable area for family members and visitors. Telemedicine technologies will be installed into each of the rooms to maximize patient and staff communication, as well as to make “multi-nodal” physician consultations possible.

The new hospital design includes a number of environmentally sustainable features, with LEED certification being pursued for construction of the new facility. Some of these sustainable features include the reuse of water, optimized access to daylight, 100 percent outside air, outdoor green space available building occupants and visitors, and overall high performance building envelope and mechanical systems. Additionally, the surrounding landscape was designed to create pedestrianized routes and landscaped gardens and plazas to enhance not only the patient experience, but also to enhance that of the surrounding community.

The new Pavilion is being designed with a network of public bridges and walkways that will not only make movement around the campus pleasant and easy, but will link the new facility to the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and the adjacent Perelman Center for Advanced Medicine. This network of walkways also easily leads building occupants to the local train station.

“As the nation’s oldest teaching hospital, the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania is rooted in a history of firsts going back nearly 150 years,” said Ralph W. Muller, chief executive officer of the University of Pennsylvania Health System in a recent statement. “Now, with the Pavilion, we’re poised for the next 100 years of advances in patient care,” said Muller.

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