Banner Thunderbird Medical Center Backfill Renovation

PROJECT COST: $40.5 Million

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This 170,000-sq-ft renovation project followed the construction of a new patient tower at the medical center. Work included improvements to the kitchen, pharmacy, central sterile processing, conference center, medical imaging and cath labs, interventional prep and recovery, cardiac center, PACU, PICU, pediatrics med-surg, dialysis and four med-surg floors.

McCarthy utilized laser scanning to model the existing facility utilities above the ceiling and incorporated into the BIM model where the new mechanical, electrical and plumbing were designed to have as little impact on the existing as possible.

Location: Glendale, Ariz.
Started: March 2009
Target Completion: June 2011
Owner: Banner Health
Design Firm: NTD Architecture
General Contractor: McCarthy Building Companies, Inc.
Engineers: Evans, Kuhn & Associates; Chavez-Grieves Consulting Engineers; Dufoe Consulting Engineers; Affiliated Engineers
Subcontractors: American Fire; Delta Diversified; Miller Bonded; E&K of Phoenix; ISEC; Wholesale Floors

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