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3 days ago
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AdventHealth taps Brasfield & Gorrie for $660M medical tower
This story was originally published on Construction Dive. To receive daily news and insights, subscribe to our free daily Construction Dive newsletter. Award: Hospital tower Value: $660 million Location: Orlando, Florida Client: AdventHealth Orlando AdventHealth Orlando has tapped Birmingham, Alabama-based contractor Brasfield & Gorrie to build a 14-story medical tower as the centerpiece of a $1 billion investment from the health system, according to a May 14 news release. The tower comes with a $660 million price tag, according to Health News Florida. Located on AdventHealth's 172-acre campus in downtown Orlando, the facility will have capacity for 24 operating rooms and 440 inpatient beds. It will also provide endoscopy and imaging services. Brasfield & Gorrie, which had $6.4 billion in revenue in 2024 according to Engineering News-Record, has long focused on the healthcare market. It boasts a portfolio ofover 3,100 projects in the sector with a value of $23.2 billion, according to its website. Other aspects of AdventHealth's investment in its Orlando campus include the development of: Advanced services and technologies such as robot-assisted kidney transplants. Its Genomics Risk Assessment for Cancer and Early Detection program, which uses a patient's family history, medical history and artificial intelligence data to assess potential risk. The Little Miracles Unit, which provides more intensive care for infants born as early as 22 weeks. 'This project is paving the way for our Orlando campus to become America's epicenter for surgical advancement, breakthrough treatments, pioneering research and medical education – all centered on our whole-person health philosophy,' said AdventHealth Orlando CEO Rob Deininger in the release. Today, AdventHealth Orlando is home to 24 accredited programs, with 358 accredited residents and fellows. With the investment, it aims to add seven more programs and an additional 109 residents and fellows. The campus currently employs nearly 10,000 people and is on pace to enroll nearly 2,000 students at AdventHealth University, with a goal of 3,000 students when the tower opens. The tower's completion is slated for 2030, according to the release
Yahoo
05-03-2025
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How North Alabama women are building community in the construction field
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WHNT) — Construction is a field typically dominated by men, but every year, the number of women grows. 'We have a pretty large co-opp and intern program, and more and more, we're seeing more girls coming through each class,' said Alexa Toler, an Assistant Project Manager at Brasfield & Gorrie. 'Even when I went through college, I was the only girl in my class, and now looking at where I went, there's women everywhere popping up.' BLOG: Damage left behind by strong winds on Tuesday Toler's job takes her from the office to job sites. 'I'm on the job, trying to get out a couple of times a week, walking with subcontractors in our field team seeing what needs to be handled,' Toler said. Toler said the number of women working in her company's operations group has grown from about 10 to more than 200 over the past 10 years. The first week in March celebrates women in construction. Gov. Kay Ivey has signed a proclamation highlighting the organizations, like the National Association of Women in Construction (NAWIC), that support the female workers who are building up the industry. Mother of Ronald Dumas Jr.'s child charged with assault in Poole Drive shooting 'It helps you to really foster that community and have that support system,' said Brittney Gaston, a Digital Marketing & Business Development Specialist at Jesse Stutts, Inc. Gaston, who serves as the NAWIC's marketing chair, said in addition to building community, NAWIC can help members tackle any difficulties they may have at work. The organization's North Alabama chapter was founded about a year ago. 'We found that there was a large interest,' Gaston said. 'A lot of us were being overlooked in meetings, and we wanted to really get a community together for our ladies to feel seen and feel heard.' Gaston said the organization also wants to support the next generation of women in construction, and she encourages young women to take the leap and know they can be successful in the industry. For any young women who may be looking to get involved, Go Build Alabama provides training to young Alabamians who are interested in entering the construction industry and other trade fields. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
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06-02-2025
- Health
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Piedmont Columbus Regional Midtown project reaches half-way point with 23 new ICU beds
COLUMBUS, Ga. () — If you have been to the Piedmont Columbus Regional Midtown campus, you have undoubtedly noticed the crane and the construction. WRBL had an exclusive look at the progress on Wednesday. This is a $58 million project that started a year ago. Brasfield & Gorie is renovating or constructing 99,038 square feet of hospital space. It's expected to bring 43 new ICU beds and a renovated 15-bed unit for oncology patients. That is to say — if this was a football game, it's now halftime. WRBL caught up with a man born at The Medical Center. He now plays an integral role in the renovation of the hospital. 'And it's kind of strange to be 42 years later, the place I was born,' said Brandon Boswell, a Brasfield & Gorie Superintendent. 'Building a new ICU expansion for the place I was born and the place that I'll be if anything happens to me. And I need health care. This is where I will be.' That is one of the significant pieces of this hospital construction project for many of the Brasfield & Gorrie employees and subcontractors. 'There's a lot of local subcontractors that are participating in this project. Our whole team from management staff live in Columbus, either born in Columbus or currently live in Columbus,' said Boswell. 'This is the hospital that our families come to. You know, my grandma could be, you know, up in one of these ICU beds, one of these days. My kids have frequently visited this E.R. over the past few years.' Boswell told us it added more of a personal aspect to the decision-making involved in working with the hospital, saying 'at the end of the day, when we're done, we could be in this hospital.' When you go on a construction site, you don't normally think about community. But – as you heard – you do on this one. Another unusual aspect of this construction site is that a lot of the work is being done while the hospital continues its operations. To Brasfield & Gorrie Project Manager Chris Strong, hospital projects in general are special. 'The first thing you have to do for front and center every day is the patient experience, patient care. And you just have to plan around that,' said Strong. 'I mean, we've taken over an entire floor of an active hospital in the middle of flu season right now. So as you can imagine, the bed crunch is is pretty pretty tight for them right now.' Strong says the tower was not originally planned to go vertical when it was constructed, so a lot of the front-end work went into the design. '…as far as how much weight we could add to the building,' Strong told WRBL. 'How much, you know, what all would we have to do inside the hospital to fit the structure to allow for the vertical expansion.' The first large piece of the project is almost complete. Twenty-three ICU beds, as well as a renovated floor, will all be ready next month. For construction workers this is a difficult, yet rewarding project. 'Health care construction is more about communications than other types of construction, in my opinion,' said Strong. 'Just because there are so many different elements and so many different people, you're affecting, you know, advertently, inadvertently, when you're when you're building the project.' One particularly impressive components of this construction is the addition of a seventh floor to the east side. Because this building was built in the mid-1970s, they are essentially building a new foundation six floors up. All in all, the massive project is a classic example of short-term pain for long-term gain. 'Construction is difficult at best to try to dovetail it in with our normal activities. But to date, we've been very successful,' said Piedmont Columbus Regional Chief Nursing Officer Cary Burcham. 'We've done multiple construction projects on this campus in the last year and a half. And so disruptions are becoming sort of the new normal.' Burcham says they've tried to create an environment that helps eases the fear of being in a hospital. 'Whenever you have a loved one in the ICU, it's scary, it's terribly scary. And when you walk in into an environment like this, what we've tried to create is an environment that is high tech, yet very comforting and instills confidence,' said Burcham. 'They have the space to do what they need to do. They have the equipment to do what they need to do. It looks functional, and I know that my loved one is receiving the best care that they can receive.' And that attention to detail can be seen by new patient lifts that will offer caregivers a better way to treat those in the ICU. 'What we do right now to lift patients is very manual and we wanted to have automated equipment that would allow us to begin to normalize patients as they get well,' said Burcham. 'This lift equipment will move not only left to right, but front to back so that we can move patients to a bedside chair. We can take them to the bathroom, we can prepare them for early ambulation out in the hallway. So these are devices that we do not have currently today.' The reward? The hospital and its staff knowing when this is done, it will create better care for patients. Once again, it comes back to community. '…there's an incredible sense of pride that we have as a trauma center and as a safety net hospital to meet the needs of our community,' said Burcham. 'And we take it very seriously. And I think the project that we've designed here is a huge step in that direction.' This is a 24-month project that came on the heels of an 18-month project to open the Bill and Olivia Amos Children's Hospital in the old Doctors Hospital space. It's scheduled to be completed next spring. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
