Robins & Morton began work in July on two AdventHealth projects in Florida: a new offsite emergency room in Pasco County and a 240,000-sq-ft vertical expansion at AdventHealth Daytona Beach.
The Meadow Pointe offsite emergency room broke ground July 9 in a strategically located and rapidly developing area of Wesley Chapel between AdventHealth’s Wesley Chapel and Zephyrhills campuses. At more than 130,000 sq ft, the $26-million facility will offer imaging and lab services and contain 12 patient beds and two triage rooms. Construction is expected to complete in the first half of 2025. Robins & Morton is general contractor, with HuntonBrady as architect.
Work began July 22 on the $220-million addition at AdventHealth Daytona Beach, where Robins & Morton is constructing vertical expansions totaling five stories in two existing areas at the campus. The project will add 104 beds—including intensive care and progressive care beds—expand the cardiovascular intensive care unit and feature a dedicated neuro-ICU unit. Other elements include an expanded sterile processing unit, enlarged pharmacy and expanded imaging modalities.
When completed in fall 2026, the hospital will have 466 beds, up from 362; expand from 18 to 22 surgical suites; and total just under 1 million sq ft. The expansion is designed to give AdventHealth the ability to quickly increase inpatient beds and surgical suites in the future.
“As the demand for our services continues to grow, we are committed to keeping pace by adding more inpatient beds, expanding our specialty care units and increasing our support services to meet the growing needs of the communities and patients we serve,” David Weis, president and CEO of AdventHealth Daytona Beach and AdventHealth operations in East Volusia County, said in a statement. Angel Colon, Robins & Morton operations manager, noted that he had worked on the Robins & Morton project that built the original hospital, which opened in 2009.
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Creative Contractors has opened its third regional office in Florida following a ribbon cutting in June at its new location in Lakeland, near Tampa. The firm says the strategic expansion is a natural result of decades of success in Polk County. The office will be led by Troy Powell, vice president, who joined the firm in 2006 and built a track record of leading teams for clients like Lakeland Regional Health, Saint Leo University and Pasco County Schools. The 50-year-old, Clearwater-based firm has worked in Polk County since 1998 and has completed notable projects in the region including the Carol Jenkins Barnett Pavilion for Women and Children, Harrell Family Center for Behavioral Health for Lakeland Regional Health, the Porter McGrath Senior Living Facility at Westminster and the Manor at West Bartow.
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Ello House, a multifamily development in Charlotte that was recently completed by Samet Corp., has earned the National Green Building Standard Silver certification, awarded to buildings that meet rigorous criteria for sustainability, energy efficiency and overall environmental performance. Formerly known as LoSo Village, Ello House is a 346,00-sq-ft, 344-unit residential complex in Charlotte’s Lower South End (LoSo) neighborhood featuring one-, two- and three-bedroom units with curated art pieces and murals throughout the property. Constructed on an EPA-recognized brownfield site, the project includes gallon-per-minute water flow efficient fixtures, Water Sense certification for water usage in the facility’s irrigation, climate control thermostats, ENERGY Star appliances or their equivalent, added sidewalks and other public access and moisture control measures including wood framing treated with microbial barriers.
Superior Construction has won awards from the Florida Transportation Builder’s Association (FTBA) and the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) for recent work in Florida. The Jacksonville-based firm was awarded Best in Construction for its 4th Street Bridge Replacement project in Pinellas County, a $9-million replacement of bridges between Interstate 275 and 119th Avenue in Pinellas County. The new bridges feature two 12-ft travel lanes and one features a 12-ft multiuse path separated from traffic by a barrier wall. The award from FTBA recognizes companies and individuals that worked on the most innovative, complex and impactful projects in Florida each year. Superior’s Sanibel Causeway project, which restored the only access to Sanibel Island in the wake of Hurricane Ian, reinforced the causeway to improve long-term resistance against future storms. In Superior’s announcement, it says the ASCE award recognizes the often unseen achievements of outstanding civil engineers and their project teams.
Greenville, S.C.-based data provider Gordian has been named the best AI-driven business technology solution for 2024 as part of the annual Software and Information Industry Association (SIIA) CODiE Awards recognizing companies producing the most innovative business technology products around the world. According to Gordian, its transformative AI technology has redefined the collection and analyzation of raw material costs, traditionally a manual and time-consuming process. By leveraging artificial intelligence, Gordian’s solution automates data normalization and prediction, allowing cost engineers to approve or reject data quickly. It provides a feedback loop for continuous learning and a threshold to determine which item can bypass human intervention, resulting in labor savings of 40,000 hours and a cost reduction of $2 million in 2023. Gordian was also recognized as a finalist in the Best Construction Management Platform category for the Gordian Cloud Platform.
