DALLAS—The joint venture McCarthy/Crowther has completed construction of Parkland Health & Hospital System’s Moody Center for Breast Health, located on the first floor of the system’s new Outpatient Clinic building, a freestanding six-floor medical building. The newly opened 40,000-square-foot clinic provides comprehensive breast care to all Dallas County residents seeking care. The new center is designed to be a hopeful environment for patients, helping to ensure they return for follow-up care after their initial appointments.

Services such as medical and surgical oncology, plastic surgery, imaging, infusion, physical therapy, and more will be collocated in the Outpatient Clinic Building. Previously, patients had to make separate appointments at different locations, and coordinate transportation, childcare, and work absences for these multiple appointments. To further facility accessibility, the building was specifically sited to be adjacent to DART bus and rail stops, strengthening the convenience and connectivity for those arriving by public transit to receive care. The design features many improvements for environmental performance and the project is expected to receive a LEED Silver rating.

The six-story Outpatient Building expected to be completed later this year totals 500,000 square feet and will also house other tenants including: administrative offices; antibiotic therapy; diabetes foot wound; HIV clinic; nutrition clinic; oncology clinic, oncology infusion, oncology lab and oncology pharmacy; ophthalmology, oral surgery clinic; surgical oncology; palliative care clinic; and physical medicine and outpatient rehabilitation. Further, the fifth and sixth floor will allow consolidation of the remaining elements occupying the Outpatient Center, formerly the old Parkland hospital, on the new hospital campus.

McCarthy/Crowther self-performed concrete, foundations, and vertical columns featured in the building. The team also employed off-site prefabrication for the panels that cover the north and south walls – with curtain infills for the remaining sections – saving two months on the schedule. Under the scope of the project, the construction team conducted site and civil work, including underground utilities from Central Utility Plant to the Outpatient Clinic. They conducted extensive utilities work, bringing power and hydronic piping from the existing CUP across the street, working in the roadways on all three sides of the building to get sanitary, storm, city water connected and tying in pneumatic tubing and fiber to another existing/active clinic on the other side of the DART rail.

The construction team also used virtual reality headsets during client mockup reviews. This allowed for end-user groups to walk the space virtually and ensure furniture, computer monitors, and equipment was in the right place in their work zone thus avoiding costly change orders after the fact. The project was completed on schedule with zero lost time injuries.

Minority/Women Business Enterprise (MWBE) contracts comprised of 33%, or $56 million of the project, with 48 MWBE subcontractors and vendors working on the building. McCarthy/Crowther created business-specific plans and worked with these teaming partners and subcontractors on where and how they wanted to grow their business. Through this, McCarthy/Crowther has pursued additional projects with these MWBEs.

Sean Smith, Project Engineer for McCarthy/Crowther said, “As a team member, I was proud to see the impact this project had on so many small, minority, and women-owned businesses during the pandemic. Our teams worked together with a ‘boots on the ground’ approach to ensure these MWBE businesses had a voice on a project of this magnitude. We look forward to working with these partners again.”

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DALLAS — Parkland Health & Hospital System has selected the Kansas City, Mo.-based firm Burns & McDonnell to provide commissioning services as Parkland continues to build out its hospital campus in Dallas. 

The new 2.8-million-square-foot Parkland campus is nearly twice the size of the old hospital on the site in Dallas County.  The Dallas-Fort Worth area experienced the largest expansion in population of any metropolitan area in the country in 2018, according to U.S. News & World Report, which means the ninth-most-populated city in the country will be in need of such expansion in the healthcare field as well. 

The Parkland hospital sees over one million patients annually, according to their website, with the medical facility offering a Level 1 Trauma Center, Level III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit and the second-largest burn care facility in the country.  It is also the teaching hospital for the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center.

Burns & McDonnell’s commissioning team will ensure that the Parkland hospital’s performance is met within the parameters of the design, construction and programming criteria set forth within the project’s multiyear Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) agreement.  The firm will oversee the ongoing construction operation, test and verify all of the new systems as well as oversee new equipment rollouts after the construction phase has been completed.

Part of the Burns & McDonnell plan includes meeting LEED v4 certification, which entails not only monitoring the quality of the hospital’s air, but also working on such internal systems as HVAC, room pressurization, humidity control, emergency power supply, plumbing, lighting controls and security.

One of the first parts of the project entails the design and build-out of a six-floor, 525,000-square-foot outpatient clinic, encompassing laboratories, offices and examination and treatment spaces.

According to Parkland’s website, Parkland Health & Hospital System was founded as a company in 1894, and has since seen such growth that they are now operators of one of the largest public hospital systems in the United States. 

Parkland President and CEO Fred Cerise was quoted in the Dallas Weekly this month—on the 125th anniversary of the company’s founding—as saying that Parkland is an integral part of the Dallas County health system and “was created with the mission to care for our community’s most vulnerable residents.”

Burns & McDonnell, encompassing over 7,000 employees, is 100 percent employee-owned and was included on Fortune magazine’s 2019 list of “Best Companies to Work For.”  The company has provided more than $11 billion in new construction within the past four years.   

“We’re excited to help Parkland implement a commissioning program that will be an integral part of Parkland’s mission to provide medical aid and hospital care to area patients,” Kyle Lambert, commissioning manager for Burns & McDonnell, said in a statement.  “At Parkland, the goal is to provide high-quality, safe care for their patients through compassion, skill and teamwork. We support Parkland’s vision and are committed to delivering a comprehensive commissioning approach focused on collaboration, accountability and attention to detail.”

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LONGMONT, Colo. — UCHealth in Denver is slated to complete construction on the new Longs Peak hospital in Longmont this June. The new hospital will address the healthcare needs of the surrounding and fast-growing populations north and east of Longmont including Niwot, Firestone, Erie, Frederick and Dacono that currently must travel elsewhere to receive care.

This 210,000-square-foot building includes the Longs Peak Hospital and the UCHealth Longs Peak Surgery Center, with a budget of $190 million. The architect on the project is WHR Architects out of Dallas, Texas, and the general contractor is Haselden Construction out of Denver. The new hospital will have 51 inpatient beds with room for 50 more with approximately 80,000 square feet of shelled space for future inpatient needs, according to Dan Robinson, chief executive officer of the new UCHealth Longs Peak Hospital.

The hospital waiting areas on all three floors open to a bright and sunny atrium with 73 feet of glass. All of the stairways are surrounded by windows bringing in natural light, which will encourage people —patients, physicians, visitors and more — to take the stairs instead of the elevators, according to Robinson. All of the post partum rooms have large windows with views of Long’s Peak, and many of the other patient rooms face west, bringing in lots of light. “The orientation of the rooms and the large windows makes the patient rooms warm, inviting and family-friendly,” said Robinson.

The hospital’s architecture uses regional stone and wood building products to maintain a local feel, according to Tushar Gupta, lead designer at WHR Architects. “WHR’s design team is proud to collaborate with UCHealth to create an innovative, welcoming and healing environment for the community,” said Gupta, in a recent statement. “The design establishes a strong visual identity, in distinctive form and native materiality, that will be part of UCHealth’s new facilities throughout the region going forward,” Gupta said.

The entire hospital structure is being built to LEED standards with the use of sustainable building materials, and prefab construction was employed for the project, according to Robinson. “The use of prefab construction was an effort on our part to increase the timeline of the hospital construction, and also to be environmentally responsible,” Robinson said.

The hospital will have an intensive care unit, a level III trauma center and emergency department, and advanced cardiac services. It will have a birthing center with a level II special care nursery, and a heliport for emergency transfers to other acute-care hospitals. There will be lab and imaging services, and a 24 hours a day seven day a week retail pharmacy. Additionally, the hospital will offer premie care, and will provide endoscopic ultrasound amongst other advanced services.

A unique trait of this hospital is a new technology for health care: innovative telehealth services, for internal and external communication. UCHealth is installing a technology for internal communication called “Vocera” which allows physicians, nurses and caregivers to communicate directly with each other without the constant noise and interruption of an overhead paging system.

Additionally, a wireless IT platform called “DocLine” will enable the hospital to communicate with other doctors and facilities outside of the Hospital. Physicians will be able to gain realtime consult from specialists via video telecommunication so that patients, doctors and the outside specialists can have consult right in the patient room. “If our beds are full and we need to admit a patient, we can automatically call the DocLine for the nearest hospital available,” Robinson said. DocLine also has the ability to dispatch ambulances based on the needs of the patient and based on the request of the referring physician, according to Robinson.

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