Cooper University Health Care is preparing to launch the first phase of its expected expansion of $ 3 billion, called “Project Imagine”, which consists of building three towers on its Camden Campus, NJ, Salut Sciences.
The plan for the first phase calls for the construction of a patient tower of 345,000 square parts, as well as updates to the Hospital’s central services plant that will allow additional additional expansion. The tower would connect directly to two neighboring buildings and a third building through a pedestrian bridge that will be built as part of the work. It would add 125 beds, extensive women’s services, a neonatal intensive care unit, operating rooms, education and research spaces, including a medical library and a regional medical coordination center.
The tower’s deep foundation system will be made of batteries and support micropiles that support reinforced concrete pile caps and grade beams, according to O’Donnell and Naccarato by Philadelphia, a structural engineer of the project. The bases of the mats supported by batteries will support the nuclei of the lateral system and wide -burning steel beams and wide -burning steel columns will support a slab composed of concrete in the metal roof soil system. .
“As a crucial center for the Coopera campus, the new patient tower serves as a central piece [its] Vision for innovation and growth, “said Michael Herrmann, vice president of O’Donnell and Naccarato, in a statement.
The construction of the first tower, directed by the managers of the construction Torcon Inc. De Red Bank, NJ, and P. Agnes Inc., based in Philadelphia, is scheduled for completion in 2028.
New Jersey provided the hospital about $ 170 million in Trauma Center subsidy fund for the first phase.
The second and third phases of the project would lead to the total number of new beds to 745, would add more surgical and interventional capacity and a new emergency service.
Pre-Apprenticish Program
As part of a community benefits agreement, hospital managers and construction were associated with the Atlantic State Regional Council of the Eastern Atlantic in a pre-Proposition program for residents. of Camden.
About 260 people have joined the program, according to Jon Young, political director of the Council. The program provides them with an overview of different buildings and establishes participants to enter the trade of their choice.
“We have a very good group of people,” says Young.
The aim is to train local residents in specialized jobs while helping to ensure the availability of labor throughout the project and for other area projects such as the next Improvement project of the Walter Rand de NJ transport center. Transit to Camden.
“We are trying to be younger,” says Young. “And we try to be proactive in the way individuals recruit to get them into and have a job.”
