North Carolina Siemens Health Building Gets LEED Gold

CARY, N.C. — Siemens Healthcare’s National Service Center in Cary, North Carolina, has been certified to LEED Gold standards by the USGBC, the company reported.
 
Siemens Healthcare, part of Germany-based Siemens, demolished the existing structure at the Cary campus and used more than 95 percent of those materials in constructing the new building.
 
The new143,000-square foot building has office space on six floors and was designed to be 25 percent more energy efficient, said the company.

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Planned $360 Million Hospital Reaches for LEED Gold

PORTLAND, Ore. — Plans are in the works for a new $360 million Kaiser Permanent hospital complex that will meet some of the worlds strictest environmental standards. Health care system officials predict the Kaiser Westside Medical Center in Tanasbourne — between Beaverton and Hillsboro — will qualify for LEED Gold status, making it one of just 36 health care facilities in the world to reach that designation.

While LEED-certified buildings are becoming common, achieving LEED certification in the medical building world has thus far been uncommon.

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Cambridge Finances New Nursing Home Projects

OTTAWA, Ill. — Cambridge Realty Capital announced has closed on a $15.3 million, 40-year term loan to finance the construction of the Ottawa Pavilion, a 129-bed skilled care nursing home in Ottawa, Ill.

The Illinois-based Cambridge is a limited liability company that underwrites FHA-insured HUD loans for its property owners. The fully-amortized loan was processed using HUD’s Section 232 funding program. The loan’s interest rate was not made public.

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Patient Tower at Panama City Hospital Completed

PANAMA CITY, Fla. — Design and consulting firm Gresham, Smith and Partners announced the completion of the Patient Tower and Central Energy Plant for Bay Medical Center in Panama City, Fla.  The five-story, 200,000-square-foot tower, which Gresham designed, contains 144 private beds and replaces the medical intensive care and surgical intensive care units.   
 
To make future expansion of the tower possible, Gresham included shelled areas on two floors to allow for expansion of the emergency department and surgery area.

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