Construction began in 2010, with the steel frame building rising to the ninth floor earlier this year. Built above a below-grade central utility plant, the tower will include intensive care, medical/surgical beds, and labor and delivery, neonatal intensive care, and miscellaneous diagnostic, treatment, and support functions. Phase Two is the construction of a new 9-story, 169 bed Acute Care Tower to house inpatient, maternal and child, and support services currently located in the existing Acute Tower. The old Clinic and Auditorium were demolished to make way for construction of the new Highland Care Pavilion. The facility was built over a 176-space parking structure and will include connectors to the new hospital. It houses campus-wide support functions and outpatient clinic services currently located in the existing Acute Tower. The 78,000 square-foot medical office building opened in June. Construction of the new 3-story Highland Care Pavilion began in late 2010 and was completed earlier this year. Highland Hospital’s upgrade is being done in three overlapping phases. They include new Kaiser hospitals in Hayward and Oakland, Alta Bates Summit hospital in Oakland and San Francisco General Hospital. Highland Hospital’s upgrade is one of many in the Bay Area that are under construction or scheduled to begin construction to meet the seismic safety regulations. In addition to meeting seismic safety standards, the ATR project will allowHighland Hospital to provide healthcare in a new state-of-the-art building. Senate Bills 1953 and 306 require that all acute care hospital buildings meet seismic-safety requirements by 2020. When completed in 2017, the ATR project will bring Highland Hospital into compliance with the State of California’s seismic safety laws. Clark reports that 19 SLEB firms have been procured for work, and 89 firms have been procured for work under the County’s Enhanced Construction Outreach Program designed to ensure that small, minority-owned local businesses are included. The County requires that 20 percent of contractors and vendors on the project are small, local, emerging businesses (SLEB). The Alameda County General Services Agency is managing the ATR Project. Highland Hospital is owned by Alameda County and operated by the Alameda County Medical Center. While the project isn’t being done under a project labor agreement, it is a prevailing wage job. Clark is a signatory contractor to agreements with the Carpenters and Laborers unions and has had crews of union workers on the project since 2010. Clark Design/Build of California is the general contractor for the Acute Tower Replacement (ATR) project being built for Alameda County. October 2013 Highland Hospital’s rebuild is being done in three phases and scheduled to be completed by 2017.Ĭonstruction crews are making progress on the rebuild of Highland Hospital’s acute care tower in Oakland. Phase One Completed, New Acute Tower Tops Out Highland Hospital Rebuild Project on Schedule
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