ALABAMA STATE EDITION
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65
72 Florence
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Huntsville
20 Decatur
72
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Gadsden
78 59 Anniston
20
Birmingham Bessemer
82 Tuscaloosa
65 280
20 82 Auburn
80
85
Selma
Phenix City
Montgomery
82
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Your Alabama Connection • Rich Olivier, Atlanta, GA • 1-800-409-1479 Brasfield & Gorrie photo
Roughly 105,000 cu. yds. (80,278 cu m) of blasted rock were exported from the site in more than 8,000 truckloads between July and September of 2013.
New Grandview Hospital Lives Up to Its Name By Cindy Riley
More than a decade after construction first began, crews have resumed work on a $280 million, 12-story hospital in Birmingham, Ala. When completed, Grandview Medical Center on traffic-heavy Highway 280 will be the center of the Cahaba Center Business Park, directly employing 5,500 people. “This is going to be what we believe is a world-class facility built in one of the fastest growing areas of Alabama,” said Keith Granger, CEO of Trinity Medical Center, which purchased the abandoned structure from scandal-plagued HealthSouth. “After an approximately five-year court battle, we were approved to move forward and started construction in a matter of weeks.” Two hospitals tried to block Trinity’s move in hearings before state regulators, and in court after regulators approved the relocation. After a favorable ruling for Trinity from the state court of civil appeals, the Alabama Supreme Court declined to hear the case, clearing the way for the move. Construction on the hospital resumed in August 2013. “This is a dream of not only our internal staff, but also for those motorists driving by every day, seeing this unfinished facility with three large tower cranes on site. It almost looks like you’re entering an oil field when you approach the property,” said Granger. Brasfield & Gorrie and A.G. Gaston are serving as construction managers for the project, which includes the build-out of the unfinished 1 million sq. ft. (92,903 sq m) hospital, as well as related construction for a 220,000 sq. ft. (20,438 sq m) medical office building and parking deck. Brasfield & Gorrie first began construction in 2002, completing the infrastructure and exterior shell, as well five floors of interior space, when the prior owner shut down work on the digital hospital. “The visual effect as you look up and see this mirrored, glass facility towering above the area is impressive,” Granger said. “There’s a very polished clean look, with spectacular views of the Birmingham terrain, including the wooded areas of the Cahaba River. This is an unserved area we wanted to reach out to, rather than continue the clustering of health care facilities built in close proximity to the inner city.” Construction of the parking deck and medical office building will involve approximately 80,000 cu. yds. (61,164 cu m) of concrete. As of early 2014, crews had poured more than 7,550 cu. yds. (5,772 cu
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