Aurora, Colorado

Martin/Martin provided structural, civil, façade access and fall protection, and construction engineering services for this 515,000 SF hospital addition. The hospital addition incorporates a large column-free ambulance court at level one, under the building, which was made possible by an innovative truss system to support the building above. The project also incorporated concrete core walls that were placed using an innovative placement method of shotcrete, which accelerated the construction schedule. The hospital includes a buildout of four patient floors for medical-surgical nursing and the intensive care unit, eight new operating rooms, an emergency department expansion, and a kitchen. The new hospital tower is connected to the adjacent parking garage and the critical care wing with two new bridges. A seven-story link provides connectivity to the existing Anschutz Inpatient Pavilion 2. The project also included a new stand-alone 3,600 SF loading dock and significant remodeling of the interior of the existing hospital. The structural design process involved close collaboration with the steel fabricator.