TORRANCE, Calif., Aug 30, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) ?
McCarthy
Building Companies, Inc., one of America?s premier hospital
building contractors, is constructing the $300 million Torrance
Memorial Medical Center Replacement Tower on the existing medical
center site at 3330 Lomita Boulevard. Excavation and shoring for the new
construction is nearly complete as the tower?s structural steel is
scheduled to begin in October 2011.
?Our partnership with McCarthy in this project will prepare us to offer
to our community the most current and effective medical technologies in
the most passionate, caring environment possible for decades to come,?
said Craig Leach, president and CEO of Torrance Memorial Medical Center.
?Once completed, the tower will be unmatched locally in its energy and
environmental design efficiencies. It will truly be a beacon for
wellness and sustainability.?
McCarthy is the general
contractor for the 256-bed replacement project, which began
construction in February 2010. The project entails construction of a
seven level, 398,350-square-foot patient tower as well as a basement to
house a central utility plant and a tunnel connecting the existing
hospital to the new facility. Twelve new elevator systems and two exit
stairs will be installed, and a 2,770-square-foot Emergency Generator
building along with underground fuel oil storage tanks will be
constructed on site. Before construction could begin, McCarthy re-routed
existing underground utilities servicing the tower around the new
tower?s footprint. A new entrance to the existing facility was also
built to allow for patient access from a new direction while the tower
is under construction.
Designed by HMC Architects, the state-of-the-art tower will be the new
front door of the medical center, and the centerpiece of the campus.
Being built with a steel frame atop a mat foundation, the tower?s
exterior skin will be a combination of metal panel, precast concrete,
plaster, and curtain wall. The combination of skin materials for the
tower?s facade not only responds to the correct solar orientation to
reduce energy consumption, but it also gives the tower a contemporary
and elegant aesthetic.
The new tower represents the future of patient care by increasing,
consolidating, and reconfiguring the inpatient, outpatient and acute
care functions of the medical center campus to better serve patients and
staff. The hospital?s design is focused on patient care as well as the
comfort of visiting family members.
The new tower will incorporate significant sustainable features
equivalent to the same standards required of a Leadership in Energy
Environmental Design (LEED) silver certified structure. Some of the
eco-sensitive design features include: minimizing environmental impacts
by incorporating optimal building orientation to reduce solar heat gain;
individual temperature controls to reduce energy; white roof to minimize
heat gain; low-level perimeter building lighting to reduce light
pollution; recycled content and environmentally friendly finishes; as
well as the use of water efficient landscaping and a healing garden to
reduce the ?heat island effect? from excessive use of hardscape.
McCarthy will also use sustainable construction methods including
recycling approximately 80 percent of construction waste; maintaining
proper indoor air quality; and utilizing local labor.
?In order to provide the design team with constructability input
efficiencies along with a progressive schedule and budgeting
information, McCarthy is using a combination of delivery systems.
Design-assist will be incorporated to deliver the Mechanical, Electrical
Plumbing (MEP) systems, structural steel, and framing, while
design-build will be used for the exterior skin, elevators and fire
protection system,? said Patrick Peterson, McCarthy project director.
The construction team is using Building
Information Modeling (BIM) technology including NavisWorks 3-D
project modeling for clash detection and coordination to assist with
extensive MEP overhead and in-wall coordination, as well as seismic
bracing, and exterior skin systems.
?Because of the project?s unique challenges, construction will be
multi-phased to alleviate disruption to the existing facility,? said
Erik Chessmore, McCarthy project manager. ?We will be setting the new
tower?s central plant equipment in the basement prior to steel and
concrete topping out. Furthermore, due to the hospital?s proximity in an
operational urban site with limited access, a detailed logistics plan
will be utilized and close coordination with the hospital and
subcontractors will be required during erection and build-out of the
tower.?
Topping out of the structural steel is slated for February 2012, with
project completion by November 2014.
About McCarthy
McCarthy
Building Companies, Inc. is the largest American-based healthcare
builder in the country. The firm has completed over $2.4 billion in
healthcare work in Southern California alone. In addition to Newport
Beach, McCarthy has offices in San Diego, Sacramento and San Francisco,
Calif.; Phoenix; Las Vegas; Dallas; Houston; St. Louis and
Atlanta. McCarthy is 100 percent employee owned.
To download high resolution photographs of this project, click on the
following link:
http://www.mccarthy.com/ftp-torrance-memorial-medical-center/
SOURCE: McCarthy Building Companies, Inc.
McCarthy Building Companies, Inc. Susan Garritano, 314-968-3300 National Communications Manager sgarritano@mccarthy.com
Copyright Business Wire 2011
Article source: http://www.marketwatch.com/story/mccarthy-building-companies-to-begin-major-structural-work-on-torrance-memorial-medical-center-replacement-tower-2011-08-30
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