Le Bonheur Children’s Medical Center, Memphis, Tenn.

Cost: $201 million

All the floors of this $201 million, 610,000-sq-ft hospital are poured, masonry and windows are being installed on the east and west sides and drywall is being installed and finished on lower floors.

And the large modules for the central energy plant, a separate building on the site, have been set in place, says Cathy Mauk, project manager.

They will seek Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification for the building, making it one of the few children’s hospitals to receive that rating.

The 12-story hospital will have 225 rooms, 14 operating rooms – including a neurosurgery suite with integrated magnetic resonant imaging (IMRI) – and 57 treatment rooms in an emergency department that will be able to handle 80,000 patient visits each year.

The hospital will have pediatric intensive care, cardiovascular intensive care and neonatal intensive care units.

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It also will house a cardiac cath lab, interventional radiology suite, endoscopy suite, two MRIs, two CT scanners, three radiology/fluoroscopy units, a nuclear medicine unit and a magnetoencephalography unit.

The concrete building has steel in the mechanical penthouse and the canopies and has a foundation of drilled auger cast piers and rammed aggregate piers, says Mike Rayburn, senior project manager. It basically is all above ground, with no basement area.

When the new facility is complete, part of the present hospital will be renovated.

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Middle Tennessee Medical Center, Murfreesboro, Tenn.

Cost: $189 million

The $189 million, 559,000-sq-ft complex is located in the new Gateway development that includes a medical office building and other businesses.

It has room for future growth but is designed to grow up before spreading out, says Andy Davis, senior project manager.

It has 5-and 7-story towers, both of which can be expanded to eight stories to house 400 beds. The towers are joined by a central core building.

The steel frame buildings are on a foundation of drilled pier caissons.

With all private rooms, the hospital will have 286 beds, including 211 medical/surgical, oncology and pediatric; 32 intensive care; 27 post partum; and 16 neonatal intensive care. Rooms follow the current larger trend, averaging about 270 sq ft.

It will have 10 operating rooms – and two more shelled out - 11 labor and delivery rooms and a 21,000-sq-ft emergency department with 40 treatment rooms.

It also will have three cath labs – one shelled – one MRI and space for another, two CTs, three X-ray rooms and an ultrasound room.

The building power plant is an attached 18,000-sq-ft unit that houses three 1,000-KW generators, three chillers, two boilers, an electrical switch gear room, pumps and equipment. The cooling towers are screened just outside it.

Turner is using a “lean construction” plan that gets all the subs on board well before groundbreaking to plan, eliminate waste and purchase materials to avoid cost increases.

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Methodist Le Bonheur Women’s & Children’s Pavilion, Germantown, Tenn.

Cost: $80.5 million

Located in a Memphis suburb, this $80.5 million hospital expansion will add 100 beds to the 209-bed facility as the building team works to make it environmentally friendly.

They are seeking LEED Silver certification, still a relatively new practice in health care building and presenting the job’s biggest challenge, says Danny Moeschle, senior project manager.

The four-story project includes the 220,000-sq-ft expansion for women’s and children’s services, a 637-space parking deck and renovations to the existing hospital.

The expansion will add 70 general medical/surgical beds, 16 critical care beds, six pediatric beds and eight NICU beds. All patient rooms will be private.

Sustainable features include highly insulated walls, solar reflective roof, low-E glass, a high-efficiency HVAC system, low volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in paints, coating, sealants and composite wood products, drought-resistant plantings and a drip irrigation system.

The pavilion is a concrete building with an auger cast pile foundation. The exterior will be brick, EIFS and curtain wall.

Before construction could start, Flintco had to demolish the Mid-American Theological Seminary (formerly Germantown Baptist Church).

“Ninety percent of the waste was diverted from landfills while all of the concrete was crushed and brought back to the site for use as subbase and gravel roads during construction,” Moeschle says.

They are also looking to keep up to 75% of construction waste from landfills.

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University of Tennessee College of Pharmacy, Memphis, Tenn.

Cost: $45 million

The University of Tennessee Health Science Center’s College of Pharmacy will gather students and faculty from six separate buildings in the Memphis medical center complex so they can teach and learn in a single structure.

The six-story, 191,000-sq-ft building is located on the site of the Baptist Memorial Health Care Corp.’s old downtown hospital that was demolished before construction of the new structure could start. The demo was in a separate contract.

Mike Bass, project manager, says the new building required about 30 ft of excavation for a basement. The building is structural steel frame and the foundation is concrete piles.

Steel is up and floors are going in place.

The new building will house large and small lecture halls, class rooms and conference rooms outfitted with equipment for distance learning, research labs with support space, a computer lab, office space and student space.

The project’s location in Memphis’ downtown medical center has presented the biggest challenge in finding space for parking and storage of materials, Bass says. The College of Pharmacy has locations in both Memphis and Knoxville and branches in Nashville, Kingsport, Chattanooga and Jackson.

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University of Tennessee Neyland Stadium Rehab, Knoxville, Tenn.

Cost: $43 million

The multi-year, phased improvements to Neyland Stadium continue between football seasons, this one including renovation of the west side lower level concourse, removing the scissor ramps and replacing them with large stairs and an additional elevator.

Rentenbach Constructors Inc. is extending the older skyboxes out over Phillip Fulmer Way, the street along the west side of the stadium, moving the press box up one level and turning the old press box level into the West Club, says Doug Pettit, project manager.

Like the East Club across the field, the 422 seats in the West Club area are larger and the rows are farther apart. They are outdoors but out of the weather, covered by an aluminum “eyebrow” roof stretching the length of the club area.

The club seats are in front of an enclosed area with large open rooms that offer fans food service, TVs and other seating.

The higher fees that fans pay for the club seats help fund the renovations of the 78-year-old stadium.

The top two levels on the west side are also being extended over the street and are getting an upgrade with improved anti-glare glass, new ceilings, walls, lights, cabinets and flooring, he says.

Below, the concourses are being widened and will get new concession stands, new and larger restrooms and other amenities.

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