HOUSTON—McCarthy Building Companies, Inc. has completed construction of two structures on the campus of Houston Methodist Sugar Land Hospital located in the greater Houston area. The project included a six-story medical office building and an attached seven-level parking garage. McCarthy broke ground in December 2021.

McCarthy’s scope included a medical office building, totaling 160,000 square feet, while the garage consists of 1,100 spaces. Conditioned pedestrian bridges connect the new medical office building to the existing campus buildings. A vehicle bridge connects the new garage to an existing adjacent garage. For the building’s interior, McCarthy was responsible for building out the lobby, corridors, and an endoscopy surgical center. The surgical center, which will be completed in August, includes three endoscopy rooms as well as one operating room.

The project’s location within the campus also created multiple challenges, as working within an operating hospital campus meant McCarthy had to work in a confined area without disrupting sensitive hospital operations. Deliveries were timed to ensure materials were installed as soon as possible to accommodate limited laydown space. Challenges associated with the supply chain were managed to ensure materials arrived in time to prevent disrupting the project schedule.

As part of the project, McCarthy undertook a major logistical challenge of extending a water main 2,500 feet around the campus while navigating existing underground utilities. Additionally, the existing garage structure was reinforced to accommodate the new vehicle connector bridge. On the technology front, McCarthy utilized a fully BIM-coordinated MEP system, as well as using McCarthy Mapping to identify locations of underground utilities.

“With an aggressive timeline and several challenges along the way, the entire project team was unified in its commitment to serve Houston Methodist and provide a seamless experience on this complex project,” said Greg Lynch, McCarthy project director. “We always want to be good stewards of each project, and McCarthy was honored to continue our partnership with Houston Methodist as they expand in Sugar Land.”

McCarthy served as the project construction manager, with Page as the project architect and Jacobs as the Owner’s representative. With an extensive portfolio of multi-phase healthcare and research facility projects, McCarthy is ideally suited to take on healthcare and research projects of any size or complexity. Some of McCarthy’s other healthcare projects include Houston Methodist Cypress Hospital, Texas Children’s Hospital – Austin, Parkland Moody Center for Breast Health in Dallas, CHRISTUS Mother Frances Hospital – Tyler expansion, CHRISTUS Spohn in Corpus Christi, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Alkek Hospital Expansion and The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center The Pavilion expansion.

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HOUSTON—The Houston Methodist hospital system, the largest healthcare system in all of Texas, has teamed up with Hoar Construction on a major expansion project in the greater metropolitan area of the Lone Star State’s largest city.

Hoar, which is based in Birmingham, Ala., is currently under construction on the $40 million Houston Methodist Orthopedics & Sports Medicine building at Houston Methodist’s Clear Lake campus, located in the suburb of Nassau Bay. The new healthcare facility was designed by PhiloWilke Architects, which is also based in Houston.

The six-story, 158,000-square-foot facility is being built across the street from NASA’s venerated Johnson Space Center in a former shopping center. The new healthcare facility project will offer two floors of expanded office space for healthcare workers.

According to Bay Area Houston Magazine, the new healthcare facility is being built on a parcel of property that was previously part of the Nassau Bay Shopping Village; the hospital system purchased that land in 2015.

The mission of the Houston Methodist Orthopedics & Sports Medicine building is to draw top-tier medical talent to the Texas metropolis given the competitive nature of the nation’s cities to lure the best practitioners throughout the healthcare market. Accordingly, the new facility at the Clear Lake campus will have facilities designed specifically for state-of-the-art sports medicine. Furthermore, a brand-new and more readily visible main entrance will “improve access to the complex,” according to Hoar representatives.

The Clear Lake project is Hoar’s sixth partnership with the Houston Methodist healthcare conglomerate, and also represents a greater expansion into the Texas market for the Alabama-based general contractor. In addition to the Houston Methodist’s Clear Lake campus project, Hoar has also worked on other Texas healthcare projects such as the Seton Hospital in Austin, as well as the Faith Community Hospital in Jacksboro and the Memorial Hospital in the city of Uvalde. All told, Hoar’s workload in the Lone Star State came in at a healthy figure of over $279 million in construction in 2019 alone.

Bay Area Houston Magazine reports that construction of the new Houston Methodist Orthopedics & Sports Medicine building at Houston Methodist’s Clear Lake campus, which is sited on the 1800 block of Upper Bay Road, is expected to be completed and the facility starting to open for patients sometime in 2021.

Hoar Construction’s Brian Cook is acting as the project’s managing director, according to Bay Area Houston Magazine.

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