Building any new hospital is tough in California. Adding and modernizing an existing hospital can often be more difficult, but the project team behind the SHARP Memorial Hospital Modernization achieved stellar results. The SHARP Memorial Hospital Modernization is a 315,000-sq-ft tower that adds 128 beds, 10 operating rooms and an emergency department to the existing hospital. The $148-million project took four years to build. Related Links: Best of California 2009 One of the challenges that the project team encountered when building the seven-story tower was that the columns for the project were expected to weigh 730 lbs per ft. Because