Presbyterian Pumps Up/Albuquerque Hospital Adds Floors, More Space

摘要

"Quiet, please," was a bit harder for Bill Schuttler to obey than for the ordinary visitor to a hospital. Schuttler is the overall project manager on the 55 million dollars construction and renovation job for Albuquerque's Presbyterian Hospital, the largest acute-care hospital in New Mexico. The work, a joint venture for the Southwest and Midwest divisions of McCarthy Construction, includes a three-story addition of 150,000 sq. ft. and 25,000 sq. ft. of renovation. It required coordinating the services of 12 subcontractors. The hospital is on Central Avenue, just east of Interstate 25. As Schuttler's crews drilled 75-ft.-deep auger-cast piles inside the existing facility to support additions that would rise above it, they had to work around a continual influx of patients and not disturb vibration-sensitive equipment such as CT scanners and MRI.