The Rutherford Gala this month kicks off a special year of activities for Middle Tennessee Medical Center as work continues to move ahead on the new hospital on Medical Center toward a projected June 2010 finish.
The new hospital is scheduled to open Oct. 2.
Here are the latest updates on the huge project.
1. The fifth floor patient tower is 99 percent complete, reports Matt Miller, project manager with Turner Universal.
2. The drywall hanging and finishing will be 100 percent complete by Feb. 15, he reports. (There is approximately 2,326,000 square feet of drywall.)
3. Progress continues on the healing garden that provides calming outdoor space for patients, visitors and staff, reports Jennifer Garland, project director for MTMC. This area will have a water feature, beautiful landscaping, detailed, hardscaped pathways and seating. It can also be viewed from the main lobby and from several areas from within the hospital and from patient room windows.
4. The process of purchasing the $32 million of medical equipment for the facility is under way, Garland adds.
Upon completion the new hospital will feature:
• $267 million state-of-the-art hospital
• 286 patient beds
• 68.5-acre campus
• 550,000 square feet
• Patient rooms will be 270 square feet.
New MTMC quick facts
The new hospital’s campus at 68.5 acres is more than four times larger than MTMC’s current campus where the hospital was established in 1927.
The frame for the hospital consists of 4,000 steel beams, and 10 elevated deck pours have been completed to date.
1,881 tons have been erected to date, 859 tons remaining.
Construction requires 2.8 million man-hours. One person working 40 hours a week would take 1,346 years.
30,955 truckloads of soil and rock fill the site, enough to cover a football field 210 feet deep.
The 2.3 million square feet of drywall is enough to build 250 houses.
You could stretch the total linear feet of electrical wiring from Murfreesboro to Houston, Texas. That’s 738 miles!
Beautiful landscaping will be graced with more than 9,000 trees and shrubs
Cost of all major equipment (mechanical, plumbing and electrical) is more than $9 million dollars and will serve the entire 550,000 square foot hospital.
Nearly $2 million in kitchen equipment that is currently being evaluated for purchase.
• 450,000 utility-sized bricks
• $267 million and covers 68 acres
• 2,740 tons of steel
• Greenway Access
• Medical Equipment $32 million
• 1,606 campus parking spaces
• 11,000 light fixtures
• 2,016 doors |
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