Memorial Hermann Texas Medical Center Electrophysiology Laboratory and Surgical Services Extension
Houston
Best interior/tenant improvement
Presented by: Kitchell
Region: ENR Texas and Louisiana
Owner: Memorial Hermann Health System
Main design company: Curry Boudreaux Architects
General contractor: Kitchell
Structural engineer: IMEG Corp.
MEP Engineer: Smith Seckman Reid Inc.
Owner’s Equipment Vendor Representative: GKL health services
Owner’s Representative: Broaddus & Associates
Subcontractors: AMC Environmental Services Inc.; American Door Products Inc.; Berger Iron Works Inc.; LP Business Flooring Specialists; Corporate Move Consulting Inc.; Firetron Inc.; Gowan/Garrett Inc.; Humphrey Co.; JM Maly Inc.; King Co.; LD Bundren Painting Inc.; Marek Sawing and Drilling LLC; Max Grigsby Co.; Melton Electric Inc.; National Terrazzo Tile & Marble Inc.
This operating room renovation and expansion included construction of 20,000 square meters of shell space to accommodate three cardiac electrophysiology catheterization labs, three general operating rooms, a hybrid operating room, a pre-op/recovery space, and eight bays of post-anesthesia care unit. – more administrative offices. Additionally, the center’s existing operating rooms remained in use during construction, challenging contractors to complete the expansion with surgical precision.
Calls and texts with questions and updates helped keep daily progress schedules and requests for information to a minimum. In addition, collaboration and open technology helped the team evaluate engineering solutions to reduce project costs, such as substituting unavailable materials and using laser scanning for pre-construction planning.
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“This is the most technically challenging project I’ve ever been a part of,” says Michael Hatton, vice president of facilities engineering and construction at Memorial Hermann Health System. There were “a lot of new things with this one, and it was delivered early.”
With the center’s second-level operating rooms completed and ready to come online, Kitchell overlaid a BIM model over laser-scanned images to plan and expedite the floor renovation work needed on the third level. This allowed the project team to quickly construct the roof removal and install the necessary infrastructure before disturbing the space.
“This planning allowed us to complete our work on the roof to allow the entire second floor of the operating rooms to come online a few months earlier, as requested,” according to the project team.
The renovation and extension saw more than 45,000 hours of work with zero lost time accidents or recordable incidents.
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Project safety was also precisely managed, with no lost-time accidents or recordable incidents, a source of pride for the project’s builders that comes from what they call a “patient-first” approach to working in a care space active
