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The new $1.79 billion Wexner Medical Center Inpatient Hospital is the largest single facilities project ever undertaken by the university.
As work continues on Ohio State University’s new Wexner Medical Center Inpatient Hospital, construction crews are ready for some challenges. The new $1.79 billion center, the largest single facilities project ever undertaken by the university, will connect to the James Cancer Hospital, and do so while the James center remains open. “That’s going to be a significant challenge,” said Ragan Fallang, project manager. “We built the James Cancer By Lori Tobias
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Hospital about 10 years ago. Operationally, it’s going to be challenging. The new medical center is 25 stories and almost two million square feet, so it is significant in size and for a hospital project, the scale is unusual. There are not a lot of other hospital projects that large sound the country.” Construction crews with joint venture Walsh/Turner will remove the entire west wall of the James Hospital and tie in each floor between the two buildings. The cancer center will have some room closures, but the majority of the building will stay open.
“We are going to build the structural metal frame of the new building first so we can roof over the top to prevent the risk of anything getting into the facility,” Fallang said. “We’ll build a temporary wall between the two structures to separate construction from non-construction activity. We felt it was the best way to protect the existing structure from outside factors. It’s a pretty interesting approach. That construction will start late next year and could take a year to two years to complete.” see DEMOLITION page 6