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Turner Construction reached a critical milestone on its $430 million healthcare construction in New Haven, Connecticut, which had initially been delayed during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The New York City-based contractor said it broke ground on the McGivney Tower, the first of two towers under construction at Yale-New Haven Hospital’s Neuroscience Center, in a statement shared with Construction Dive . Originally announced in April 2019, the project did not make it start until August 2022 due to the tumult of the global coronavirus lockdown.
Since the pandemic, spending on healthcare construction has remained robustdespite rising costs.
Now, Turner has reached the vertical apex of the 200,000-square-foot tower, which is a superstructure of the existing McGivney Advanced Ambulatory Surgery Center. Overall, the project of the neuroscience center is the largest of its kind in Connecticut historyaccording to the hospital.
The McGivney Tower will include a radiology and biomedical imaging room, four patient floors and a mechanical and electrical room, Turner said. Eventually, it will be attached to the Sherman Tower to add 204 inpatient beds to the facility, which specializes in neuro-regeneration and patients seeking care for movement disorders.
Both towers will share a common podium that will house the new entrance and main lobby on the first floor, neurosurgery and radiology spaces on the second floor, and caregiver spaces and the mechanical equipment room on the third floor. A unique design element includes an 8,000-square-foot healing garden on the fourth-floor rooftop between the two towers.
Next on the project list is Sherman Tower topping out in early 2025. The full 507,000-square-foot project is slated for completion in late 2026.
This is the second major medical center milestone that Turner has achieved in recent weeks. In mid-November, he announced that he passed phase 1 of the $585 million Northeast Georgia Medical Center in Braselton, about an hour outside of Atlanta. This phase will add 150,000 square feet of new support and clinical space to the hospital.
