{"id":33526,"date":"2025-12-07T22:44:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T06:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/mccarthy-leverages-logistics-prefab-on-st-louis-hospital-tower\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T22:44:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T06:44:15","slug":"mccarthy-leverages-logistics-prefab-on-st-louis-hospital-tower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/mccarthy-leverages-logistics-prefab-on-st-louis-hospital-tower\/","title":{"rendered":"McCarthy leverages logistics, prefab on St. Louis hospital tower"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"text-to-speech\">\n    <button class=\"text-to-speech__button button\"><br \/>\n        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"text-to-speech__button__icon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.constructiondive.com\/static\/img\/play.svg?500116090725\" alt=\"-\"><br \/>\n        Listen to the article<br \/>\n        <span class=\"text-to-speech__button__audio-length\">3 min<\/span><br \/>\n    <\/button><\/p>\n<div class=\"text-to-speech__controls\">\n        <audio controls=\"\" class=\"js-text-to-speech\" preload=\"none\"><source src=\"https:\/\/text-to-speech.divecdn.com\/newspost\/807100\/2025-12-04_15.41.33\/mccarthy-st-louis-barnes-jewish-hospital-plaza.wav\" type=\"audio\/mp3\"><\/source><\/audio><\/p>\n<div class=\"text-to-speech__controls__text\">\n            This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.constructiondive.com\/contact\/\" target=\"_blank\">feedback<\/a>.\n        <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span>St. Louis-based McCarthy Building Cos. has finished a key project in its own backyard.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span>The contractor completed construction on the new Plaza West Tower, an expansion of heart and vascular patient care, as well as radiology, at Barnes-Jewish Hospital in the city, according to a Dec. 3 news release sent to Construction Dive. McCarthy declined to share the cost of the project, citing its client.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span>The 16-story, 660,000-square-foot Plaza West Tower features 224 private inpatient rooms and 56 private intensive care unit rooms alongside modern clinical spaces, according to the news release. Design and preconstruction began in December 2019, and construction kicked off officially in November 2021.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span>The addition sits on the <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/medicine.washu.edu\/news\/barnes-jewish-hospital-unveils-state-of-the-art-patient-care-tower\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>site of the former Queeny Tower<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><span><span><span><span><span><span>, according to a news release from the Washington University School of Medicine. The Barnes-Jewish Hospital serves as a major referral center in the Midwest and is the fifth-largest hospital in the country, according to the university.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span>The project is a part of BJC HealthCare\u2019s Campus Renewal, a long-term plan to transform the university\u2019s medical campus through new construction and renovations. To date, the phases of the Campus Renewal Project have generated nearly $2 billion in economic impact, per the school.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span>The team effort was homegrown \u2014 most project partners, such as architect CannonDesign, hospital network BJC HealthCare, BR+A Consulting Engineers and civil engineer Castle are all based in St. Louis, according to McCarthy. Thornton Tomasetti, the structural engineer on the job, is headquartered in New York City.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span>Working on a hospital comes with challenges. To meet the facility\u2019s demands for efficiency, quality and minimal disruption, McCarthy had to leverage a prefabrication strategy that saw the builder use 280 patient room bathrooms built by St. Louis-based T.J. Wies Contracting, per the release. The fully finished bathroom pods \u2014 which included plumbing, electrical, tile, fixtures and finishes \u2014 were manufactured offsite and delivered to the tower.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span>Once delivered, cranes lifted the pods to their locations floor-by-floor. McCarthy said the approach shortened installation schedules, minimized onsite congestion and provided superior quality assurance compared to traditional field-built methods.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span>The contractor also had to contend with pedestrian and vehicle traffic, as the tower sits on one of the medical campus\u2019 busiest corners. Construction activities needed coordination to be successful, per the release.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span>\u201cWorking on a landlocked site in the heart of a major medical center required us to rethink every step of the construction process,\u201d said Kris Mannen, senior superintendent for McCarthy, said in the news release. \u201cThrough prefabrication, creative logistics, and close collaboration with our partners, we were able to deliver a world-class facility while minimizing the impact on daily hospital operations.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span>However, not all has progressed smoothly \u2014 BRK Electrical Contractors, one of the trade partners on the project, <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.firstalert4.com\/2025\/10\/21\/contractor-files-820k-lien-bjcs-new-hospital-tower\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>filed a mechanic\u2019s lien against the project<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><span><span><span><span><span><span> on Oct. 4 for a total of $819,692, local outlet First Alert 4 reported. McCarthy told Construction Dive that it was aware of the lien, but declined to comment further because the matter is ongoing.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.constructiondive.com\/news\/mccarthy-st-louis-barnes-jewish-hospital-plaza\/807100\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">This article was originally posted at Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Listen to the article 3 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. 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