This summer, several major, multi-million-dollar projects are underway at VUMC.
VUMC’s ‘Extreme Makeover’
The exterior of the Emergency Department will look like this by next spring.
Current Emergency Department construction.
Once construction is complete in 2005, Light Hall and Langford Auditorium will be connected and called MRB IV.
The construction atop Light Hall has required pedestrians to take a detour to their destinations.
Emergency Department Renovation and Expansion
Start: Mid-February 2004
Completion: Spring 2005
Cost: $12 million
Project manager: Jim Tenpenny
Construction manager: Centex Rogers
Architect: Earl Swensson and Associates
Features and details: Current ED is being expanded and remodeled and utilized for less critical “fast track” patients, 23-hour observation, and chest pain, stroke patients and OB/GYN patients.
The project includes an expanded waiting room, four new trauma suites, new hazardous material decontamination area, an EMS work area, storage for stretchers, and a conference and teaching center. Foundation construction will begin sometime this summer.
Medical Research Building IV
Start: May 2004
Completion: the three floors above Light Hall — summer 2005; the seven floors above Langford– late summer/fall 2006
Cost: $110 million
Project manager: Robert Otten
Construction manager: Turner Universal
Architect: Don Blair and Associates with Davis Brody Architects
Features and details: The top of Light Hall will include three research floors which will connect to the Langford Auditorium vertical addition by an atrium beginning at floor 7. The Langford addition will include five research floors and two vivarium floors. Langford Auditorium will be expanded and have a new entrance with new exterior. Building exteriors will look similar to Eskind Biomedical Library. A clinical skills training facility will be attached to Langford for medical students.
Medical Research Building III/Learned Lab
Start: July 2004
Completion: Late 2004
Cost: $4 million
Project manager: Robert Otten
Construction manager: Centex Rogers
Architect: The Wilson Group
Features and details: Interior construction only. Finishing last floor, 4, in Learned Lab which will be renovated for a Cell and Developmental Biology lab for Susan Wente, Ph.D. Completing floor 9 for three researchers — Daniel Libeler, Ph.D., Andrew Link, Ph.D., and Shawn Levy, Ph.D.
Outpatient Care Tower at Children’s Hospital
Start: December 2003
Completion: October 2004
Cost: $9.6 million
Project manager: John Sparks
Construction manager: Centex
Architect: Earl Swensson and Associates
Features and details: First Phase — Floors 4, 5, 6 for clinics related to surgical and hospital based services. Floor 4 will be for General, Orthopedic and Urological Surgery clinics; Floor 5 will be for Cardiology, CT Surgery, Pulmonary, Allergy/Asthma and Anesthesia and Critical Care services; Floor 6 will be for Hematology/Oncology, chemo-pharmacy, Hemostasis/thrombosis and the Rapid Response Lab. This will also include 62 exam rooms and 43 treatment/procedure rooms. The Medical Center Board recently approved plans to build out floors 8,9 and 11 at a cost of $6.4 million.
Medical Center East South Tower
Start: June 2004
Completion: Phase One – late 2004; Final Phase – spring 2005.
Cost: $79.5 million (total); New programs will cost $18.6 million
Project managers: Ann McGauran and Don Bolin
Construction manager: Turner Universal
Architect: Earl Swensson and Associates and HLM Architects and Southeast Venture LLC
Features and details: Includes build-out of Bill Wilkerson Center for Otolaryngology and Communication Sciences, Vanderbilt Orthopaedic Institute, Eskind Diabetes Clinic and Cardiology Clinic.
Interior construction and build-out for Vanderbilt Orthopaedic Institute will be on floors 3 and 4. Wilkerson and Otolaryngology will be located on floors 6, 7, 9 and 10. The Wilkerson/Otolaryngology education center will occupy approximately one-third of floor 8. Work is proceeding. The Eskind Diabetes Clinic will be on floor 8. The Page Campbell Cardiology Clinic will be on floor 5.
East Garage
Start: Phase One: Fall 2004; Phase Two: (MCS) Summer 2005
Completion: Phase One: Summer 2005; Phase Two: Winter 2006
Cost: Phase One: $4 million; Phase Two: $15 million
Project manager: Ann McGauran
Construction Manager: Turner Universal
Architect: Thomas Miller
Features and details: Awaiting approval for a new garage. Capers Garage will be called South Garage and VUH Garage will be called East Garage. The new garage will be linked to the TVC Garage, and the entrance and exits from TVC garage will be moved to Dixie Place. Phase Two will remove the Medical Center South building to build new parking on that site. Two additional floors of parking will be built above the existing clinic garage with Phase Two; the new garage will feature retail space along 21st Avenue. Approximately 850 spaces (total of 2,400) in the affected garages will be added.