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Methodist Health System Hospital
Project Information
- Project Location:
- Midlothian, TX
- Status:
- Completed - Oct 2020
- Structure Type:
- Hospital / Nursing Home
References
- Architect:
- Corgan
Scope Of Work
Methodist Health System opened the first acute care hospital in Midlothian, Texas in Fall 2020. DPR delivered the 180,000-sq.-ft., five-story, 44-bed hospital, as well as a two-story, 45,000-sq.-ft. professional office building and associated site work on a highly accelerated, 20-month construction schedule.
Set on a 65-acre greenfield site, Methodist Hospital in Midlothian will employ approximately 300 medical professionals and support staff within the first year. It represents the 11th hospital in the Methodist Health system.
Speed to market was the overriding goal for the owner, which was working to beat a competitor in opening the first acute care facility serving residents in and around the town of Midlothian. Until now, the nearest hospital has been a 20- to 25-minute drive away. The project’s highly accelerated schedule brought sizeable challenges – not the least of which was an extremely wet winter and fall of 2019 that resulted in approximately three months, or 60 working days, of weather delays.
DPR self-perform crews played a significant role helping the project mitigate the rain delays, according to project manager Ashish Gupta. “We were able to be very nimble using our self-perform crews, working weekends to make up part of the time,” he noted. “Through extensive preplanning and by our self-perform crews helping drive the schedule, we were able to still meet our topping-out milestone date for the hospital and stay on track. They also helped keep the level of quality really high.” DPR self-performed concrete and waterproofing portions of the hybrid steel and cast-in-place concrete hospital structure, totaling nearly 10% of the overall project budget.
The Methodist Hospital in Midlothian successfully opened on November 9th 2020, DPR successfully completed the professional office building portion of work as planned in May of 2020. The team was selected to make a presentation on the project at the Lean Construction Institute’s Annual Congress in October of 2020.
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