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Lubbock’s $125M Hope Tower Begins With Soft Demolition By Romona Paden CEG CORRESPONDENT
A major overhaul of the healthcare facility profile in Lubbock, Texas, began earlier this year as Covenant Medical Center began construction on Hope Tower to replace an aging, outdated hospital with a campus spread out over five buildings. The $125 million, 220,000 sq. ft. project that began construction in April with the build out of the hospital’s basement and lower basement, follows two years of site planning, including nine months of demolition work on the site. The structures had “outlived their usefulness,” said Jerry
McPhail. The buildings “were not being used for their original purposes and were not suited for patient care.” McPhail heads up the Hope Tower project and is regional director of construction of La Palma, Calif.-based Petra Integrated Construction Strategies, a firm specializing in healthcare facility design and construction. “Soft” Demolition The healthcare context of Hope Tower — patient occupancy in buildings adjacent to the site — required project managers to devise a kinder, gentler form of demolition without the use of giant wrecking balls or explosives to
Project managers had to devise a kinder, gentler form of demolition without the use of giant wrecking balls or explosives to take out the 325,000 sq. ft. of space across five buildings that stood on the site since the 1950’s.
The 94 percent of recyclable material, which workers sorted on site for use as fill material, included 6,000 tons of metals — steel, copper and aluminum; 12,000 tons of brick masonry facade; and 38,000 tons of concrete.
take out the 325,000 sq. ft. of space across five buildings that stood on the site since the 1950’s. “We had demolition concerns about vibrations,” said McPhail. Other safety concerns called for mitigating dust around air intake ducts and maintaining a userfriendly environment for patients, staff and visitors. Demolition was taking place only 3 ft. from the
entry drive to the occupied portion of the campus. “A lot of planning went around that,” he said. The requirements translated to a distinctly low-tech approach with a lot of hands-on work. McPhail and his team, which included Midwest Wrecking Co. LLC of Oklahoma City, “looked at implosions” to do see CONTRACTOR page 14
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