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A joint venture consisting of Turner Construction, Byrne Construction Services and Straight Line Management broke ground last month a $550 million hospital in San Antonio, Texasaccording to a statement from New York City-based Turner.
The Palo Alto University Hospital campus will feature a state-of-the-art five-story tower that will include an emergency room, labor and delivery rooms, neonatal intensive care unit, operating rooms, inpatient rooms and a building of medical offices annex. to serve the rapidly growing Southside San Antonio area.
The hospital is expected to be open to patients by 2027, according to Turner. Both of us Byrne Construction and straightline are based in Texas.
The facility is located next to Texas A&M University-San Antonio. The university is also currently build a $45 million university of Education and Public Health which will accelerate the training of healthcare professionals and expand medical research in the area, according to a separate press release.
Owner of Palo Alto University Health Hospital, a political subdivision of the state of Texas, is the only locally owned and operated healthcare system in San Antonio and Bexar County, one of the fastest growing counties in Texas. By 2030, the area is expected to be home to 3.2 million people in Bexar and seven surrounding counties, a growth rate of 28 percent, according to University Health.
To meet the demand for health services, University Health is currently construction of two new community hospitals: Palo Alto, as well as Retama Community Hospital on the northeast side of San Antonio. Utah-based Sandy Layton Construction is the construction manager at risk contractor for the Retama project.
The hospitals will each have at least 160 beds and span 480,000 square feet, with another 105,000 square feet in medical office buildings, according to University Health. web site
Turner and Layton’s JV aren’t alone in offsetting big-ticket health care projects. Based in Edmonton, Alberta PCL Construction also won a design-build contract recently, which is worth it $667 million, from the Government of Saskatchewan, Canada, to build a new hospital tower in Prince Albert.
