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MCH, a construction joint venture, began structural steel erection at the L.A. County + USC Medical Center Replacement Facility, a new 600-bed, 1.5 million-square-foot complex in Los Angeles. The facility is the largest public works project in Los Angeles County.
Throughout the project, 16,150 tons of structural steel will be used in the facility’s four major components - 2,700 tons in the seven-story outpatient building, 8,800 tons in the eight-story inpatient tower; 3,800 tons in the five-story diagnostic and treatment building; and 850 tons in the underground central plant. All four structures are designed to withstand significant seismic events.
Herrick of Pleasanton, Calif. is self-performing the fabrication of the steel in its San Bernardino plant in southern California and its Thai operation in Bangkok. Steel fabrication has begun on the outpatient and inpatient buildings and will continue through February 2004.
Sources throughout the world are providing the structural steel for the medical replacement facility. The wide flange shapes of steel were procured from Nucor Yamato in Arkansas, Arcelor in Luxembourg, Corus in Great Britain, and Siam Yamato in Thailand. Plate steel came from Oregon Steel in Oregon, United States Steel in Indiana and ISG in Indiana.
L.A. County + USC Medical Center Replacement Facility remains on schedule for its January 2007 completion date. In addition to beginning the steel phase, MCH continues the mass excavation and installation of shoring for the central plant. Other construction milestones include:
- The last shipment of bearings from Silvertown UK Limited, the base isolator bearings manufacturer, has been received and MCH began installation in the diagnostic and treatment building at the end of July. The Diagnostic & Treatment facility is designed with a seismic base-isolation system beneath its entire 76,650 square-foot base that can accommodate 22 inches of lateral movement at the base level.
- Drilling, rebar cage placement, and concrete pouring for inpatient building foundation caissons is now complete.
MCH 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.###
