BIG D'S BILLION-DOLLAR BABY: NEW PARKLAND HOSPITAL TOPS THE CHART

摘要

The new Parkland Hospital is big. Check out the numbers: 862 private adult beds and 96 neonatal ICU beds. More than two million sf of space, and $1.27 billion in construction cost. Ten thousand employees. A hundred fifty minority/women/small business contractors. Five million man-hours in trades labor. When it opens August 20, 30,000 visitors-speaking 77 languages-will stream through the new Parkland daily, 140,000 people will seek care in its ED annually, and 16,000 babies will be born there every year. As the largest public healthcare project in the country to be built in one phase, Parkland "will serve as a standard for public healthcare development into the future," said Lou Saksen, Senior Vice President for New Parkland Construction. In 2008, Dallas County voters overwhelmingly approved a $747 million bond issue to replace the 1950s-era existing hospital. The design team of HDR+Corgan, a four-firm construction management group known as "BARA," and programmer Blue Cottage were tasked with creating a master plan for the 64-acre medical campus and a building design for a LEED-NC 2009 Silver hospital. Ground was broken in May 2010; construction was completed last October.