Gilbane Building Co.

Owner:

U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs

Scope Of Work

Gilbane’s federal team completed design-bid-build construction, alterations, site adaptation, and systems installations for a new 12,000 square-foot SICU on the second floor of the Audie L. Murphy Memorial Veterans Hospital. Facilities included nurse’s station, patient rooms, waiting rooms, consultation rooms, communications closet, biomedical closet, mechanical storage room, and support areas. The second floor originally included office space and doctor’s offices.

Value engineering efforts produced a cost-saving option of eliminating flooring designs in order to save on labor costs, which the client accepted. Gilbane’s high performance team also suggested the use of modular nurse stations in lieu of the heavy, non-adjustable, plastic laminate casework originally specified which the client approved. The modular stations were more attractive and made of light-weight metal and composite materials that can be taken apart and reconfigured at any time.