MU Health Care Expansion Earns LEED Gold
COLUMBIA, Mo. — A $190 million patient care tower addition to the University Hospital in Columbia, Mo., has received LEED Gold certification. The eight-story replacement facility, which opened in March 2013, was designed by HOK, with offices in St. Louis, and constructed by JE Dunn Construction of Kansas City, Mo. It is the largest expansion ever for University of Missouri (MU) Health Care.


Heery International has promoted architect William “Steve” Hart to vice president. Hart, who first joined Heery in 1995, currently heads Heery’s interior design studio in Atlanta where he specializes in corporate, higher education and health care interiors. Hart has spent the last 20 years working both as a designer and project manager.