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CONSTRUCTION MILESTONE
March 21, 2012
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| No, the good doctor isn’t performing emergency surgery on a girder. It’s the topping-out ceremony for the new Alta Bates Summit Medical Center Patient Care Pavilion, a $300M ground-up facility under construction in Oakland. The 250k SF project broke ground in 2010 with DPR Construction as general contractor. Project manager Jay Widdifield says the project has been anything but traditional. The pavilion is rising on a 1.5-acre site in the middle of a fully operational urban hospital campus, attached to existing buildings on three sides and seven floors. |
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| The facility is slated to open in 2014, boasting 238 acute-care beds, private rooms with Bay Area views, and a 1,067-space parking garage being built by Overaa Construction that will open this May. The project has been designed to achieve LEED Silver, but that’s not the only cost-saving aspect. Early in the design process, DPR’s use of laser-scanning detected an eight-inch dimensional difference between the integrated project delivery team’s original model and the actual size of the site, saving an estimated $500k in future change orders. The savings can go towards rotator cuff surgery for this aggressively waving crew. |
