Robins & Morton completes $150 million in new construction, renovations

The Nashville Division of healthcare construction firm Robins & Morton is completing more than $150 million in new construction and renovations across seven states.

The $31 million Cumberland Medical Center in Crossville, Tenn., includes a new 149,000-sq.-ft. patient tower addition, in addition to 29,000 sq. ft. in renovations. Completion is scheduled for 2006.

The four-story Fisher Titus Medical Center in Norwalk, Ohio, with a 101,000-sq.-ft. patient tower, is valued at $24 million. Another $10 million in renovation work is in progress for that facility. Two New Mexico jobs - Artesia General Hospital in Artesia and Gerald Champion Regional Medical Center in Alamogordo - are underway.

Those projects represent more than 75,000 sq. ft. of new construction and renovations, with a value of $27 million.

Monroe Hospital in Bloomington, Ind., broke ground in May on a new $22 million hospital with 90,000 sq. ft. Meanwhile, a $12 million emergency room renovation and Women's Center addition is under way at Logan Regional Medical Center in West Virginia. Houston's Cypress Fairbanks Medical Center is getting $8 million in additions and renovations.

Finally, in Maine, construction is under way for Calais Regional Hospital, a 65,000-sq.-ft. replacement hospital valued at $16 million.

Robins & Morton has completed more than 650 healthcare facilities across the country in its 59-year history.

Two North Nashville universities are neck-deep in construction projects totaling almost $40 million

Meharry Medical College recently contracted Powell Construction Co. of Nashville to begin work on the $9 million Center for Women's Health Research. The facility will address health issues affecting black women.

Initial construction should cost about $7.2 million.

At nearby Tennessee State University, the performing arts center and the downtown campus are currently being renovated. Construction includes an $8.5 million research center, to be built by Orion Building Corp. of Nashville, and a $1.7 million agricultural information technology center.

The Meharry project will take up 10,000 sq. ft. in the George Hubbard Hospital building on D.B. Todd Boulevard.

The center will include an endocrinology lab for hormonal studies, core centers for behavioral science and radiology, an exercise facility, seminar rooms and general laboratories.

The technological demands of the center and the age of the circa-1910 building have created numerous construction challenges.

Roadtec begins series of asphalt workshops

Roadtec recently announced a series of workshops designed to increase skill levels in asphalt paving companies.

Classroom and hands-on instruction will be offered and conducted by professionals from leading companies in the road construction field.

Topics will include understanding the function of paver and screed, preventing mix segregation at the paver, achieving density with rollers, proper application of tack coat and new techniques, mat testing and more.

Onsite demonstration equipment brands will include Roadtec, Astec, Topcon, Laser Systems, Carlson Paving Products, among others. The workshop will take place at Roadtec/Astec training center in Chattanooga, Tenn., on Jan. 4-5, Jan. 18-19 and Feb. 22-23.

For more information contact Carmen Mercer at Roadtec, 800-272-7100.