2011

Down to the Wire

8 mins
When the busy Chicago-area Elmhurst Memorial Healthcare broke ground on a new, fully integrated 50-acre hospital campus in 2008, the size and complexity of the new facility left little room for delays or errors in the construction process. 
 
Founded in 1926, Elmhurst Memorial Healthcare serves more than 400,000 patients in the Chicago suburb of Elmhurst.

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The Benefits of MasterFormat

8 mins
Hospitals, medical offices and other healthcare facilities are very complex. They have security, notification, HVAC, back-up power, medical gas and other sophisticated systems that exceed the requirements of your average institutional building. In addition, green building is becoming more popular, adding another level of requirements to facilities pursuing certification programs such as LEED for Healthcare, which opened project registration on Nov.

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$195.5 Million Hospital Set to Open in NY

3 mins
WALLKILL, N.Y.  — Orange Regional Medical Center will open its new replacement hospital in Wallkill to the public in April, according to hospital officials.
 
The new $195.5 million, 621,000-square-foot hospital, located 65 miles outside Manhattan, was designed and constructed by St. Louis-based HBE Corp.

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BlueCross Tennessee Headquarters Earns LEED Gold

3 mins
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — BlueCross BlueShield’s headquarters in Tennessee, which includes 950,000 square feet of office space, recently received LEED Gold certification.
 
Bob Worthington, chief strategy officer for BlueCross, said the company always had the desire to incorporate certain sustainable design attributes into the new corporate campus.
 
“Our master planning goals always included sustainability, innovation and
wellness,” Worthington said.

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BlueCross Headquarters Earns LEED Gold

3 mins
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — BlueCross BlueShield’s headquarters in Tennessee, which includes 950,000 square feet of office space, recently received LEED Gold certification.
 
Bob Worthington, chief strategy officer for BlueCross, said the company always had the desire to incorporate certain sustainable design attributes into the new corporate campus.
 
“Our master planning goals always included sustainability, innovation and wellness,” Worthington said.

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Reed Completes University Hospital Renovation

2 mins

CHICAGO — Reed Construction recently completed a renovation at the radiology department at the University of Chicago Medical Center’s Bernard A. Mitchell Hospital.

Reed Construction renovated the space to accommodate the installation of an uninterrupted power supply system designed to provide back-up power to the department’s three CT Scanners.

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