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The new $494 million (construction cost) L.A.County+USC Medical Center Replacement Facility is now underway. MCH, a construction joint venture, has broken ground at the site in Los Angeles.
“MCH is proud to work on such an important project, which will bring state-of-the-art healthcare facilities to the citizens of Los Angeles when it is completed on time and on budget in 2007,” said Richard Heim, MCH spokesperson.
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors selected MCH, which is comprised of McCarthy Building Companies, Inc. (www.mccarthy.com) of Newport Beach, Clark Construction Group, LLC (www.clarkconstruction.com) of Costa Mesa, and the Hunt Construction Group (www.huntconstructiongroup.com) of Phoenix, to serve as general contractor for the 600-bed, 1.5 million-square-foot facility.
The joint venture partners are among the nation’s largest and most experienced construction companies with an outstanding track record in health care construction that includes such clients as the National Institutes of Health, the Johns Hopkins Medical Center, Hoag Memorial Hospital, Phoenix Children’s Hospital and St. Joseph’s Medical Center.
Sited on land next to the existing facility, the new LAC+USC Replacement Medical Facility will include four major components: a seven-story outpatient building; an eight-story inpatient tower; a five-story diagnostic and treatment building; and a central energy plant.
Designed by a joint venture of HOK of Los Angeles and LBL Associated Architects of Santa Monica, the new replacement hospital will play a central role in meeting the growing demand for public health care services replacing a facility that had grown outdated in many areas and was badly damaged in the 1994 Northridge earthquake. Among the key construction challenges will be navigating the logistics of a tight urban site and installing a sophisticated base isolation system.
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