DURHAM, NC –– Skanska, a global construction and development firm, announces the successful completion of UNC Health’s North Carolina Surgical Hospital. Rising seven stories and spanning 375,000 square feet, the surgical hospital is the single largest addition to the Chapel Hill campus since it was built in 1952.
Designed by Page, the new surgical hospital offers 26 operating rooms, four of which are hybrid size operating rooms to accommodate additional equipment and technology for newly developed procedures, 59 pre- and post-operating rooms, as well as two floors of ICU space with 80 beds. The building has a main reception area as well as visitor waiting areas on each floor, an indoor and outdoor staff lounge, employee locker rooms, offices, and conference rooms.
“As one of the top health care construction firms in the country, we are committed to constructing exceptional facilities that improve the communities where we live and work,” said Mark Balling, Executive Vice President and General Manager for Skanska's building operations in North Carolina and Virginia. “We are proud to have partnered with UNC Health to deliver this remarkable hospital that is poised to provide a place of healing and elevated patient care.”
Patient drop-off canopies now grace the entrances of both the surgical hospital and the children’s hospital next door. Additionally, two new overhead pedestrian bridges connect the existing campus parking decks to the UNC Adams School of Dentistry building as well as to the new hospital. Skanska further completed renovations in the ambulatory patient care facility and refreshed the butterfly garden on the existing campus.
Prior to construction, site development work included extensive utility relocations, an upgraded storm and sanitary system, a new chilled water and steam system for the new hospital and adjacent buildings, and a new electrical duct bank from the hospital’s generator plant.
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Operating from a regional headquarters in Durham, North Carolina, Skanska USA has completed nearly $2.9 billion worth of work in North Carolina and Virginia over the past 10 years and currently has more than $640 million of projects in progress in the two states.
