Bringing Care Closer to Home
Children's Hospital Colorado - Colorado Springs | Colorado Springs, Colorado
Completed as GE Johnson Construction Company
The Children’s Hospital Colorado—Colorado Springs project is the first full-service pediatric treatment center in Southern Colorado. The hospital offers “the best care for kids, close to home,” with more than 40 pediatric specialties.
About
The Project
Children’s Hospital Colorado—Colorado Springs (CHCO) provides treatment for both urgent and long-term health issues to children, adolescents, and young adults. The $110 million, 294,000-sq.-ft. hospital is located on the UCHealth Memorial Hospital North campus in Colorado Springs and features six levels, 60 neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) rooms, 48 med surgery/pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) beds, 31 emergency department (ED) exam rooms, five operating rooms (OR), and 34 recovery/pre-op bays.
The hospital also includes constructed spaces for a Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) scanner, a Computerized Tomography (CT) scanner, fluoroscopy and ultrasound, and 12 infusion rooms.
Fast
Facts
- The new hospital has 60 neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) rooms. One NICU is exclusively for triplets, another is built for twins.
- The project recycled all metal during construction and the recycling funds, received as a result, were donated to the hospital’s social work fund to provide patient and family assistance.
- Prefabrication of exterior panels accelerated the schedule and enhanced the quality of installation.
Kid
Of the Quarter
Each quarter, a local child who received treatment at Children’s Hospital Colorado in Aurora was selected to represent the new hospital. During their tenure as KOTQ, they visited the project, toured the site, participated in Stretch & Flex (a daily morning warmup that is a part of our safety protocol), attended team lunches, and had the opportunity to share their story. Each kid left their mark by signing structural beams, door frames, conduit pipes, as well as placed tiles, bent conduit, pulled wire, and brazed pipe, among others.
The KOTQ visits made an even deeper, indelible mark on the project team, reminding the team that their dedication to excellence on this project will provide life-saving treatment to children for many years to come.
Kid of the Quarter Overview
500 Days
Of Working Safe
With more than 1,700 different workers involved in the project (and over 500 onsite each day during peak construction), we exceeded $4.4 million of craft labor and roughly 80,000 hours without a single recordable injury—a total of more than 500 days.
An important factor was the development of a safety innovation team. Field leaders from the Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) team, along with hand-picked tradespeople, met monthly to review goals, trending and leading indicators, and upcoming activities to help prepare for potential issues as conditions changed and progress was made. Thank you cards were also given out for “caught working safe” opportunities.
Project
Cohesion
CHCO was built on the UCHealth Memorial Hospital North campus. During the construction of CHCO, Memorial Hospital North was also undergoing a $100 million expansion, which another of our project teams was completing. The expansion included a pedestrian bridge between the two buildings.
To ensure cohesion between the two projects, extensive logistics planning, constant communication with the adjacent project, and ongoing collaboration between construction activities were provided.
500 Days
Of Working Safe
With more than 1,700 different workers involved in the project (and over 500 onsite each day during peak construction), we exceeded $4.4 million of craft labor and roughly 80,000 hours without a single recordable injury—a total of more than 500 days.
An important factor was the development of a safety innovation team. Field leaders from the Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) team, along with hand-picked tradespeople, met monthly to review goals, trending and leading indicators, and upcoming activities to help prepare for potential issues as conditions changed and progress was made. Thank you cards were also given out for “caught working safe” opportunities.
Project
Cohesion
CHCO was built on the UCHealth Memorial Hospital North campus. During the construction of CHCO, Memorial Hospital North was also undergoing a $100 million expansion, which another of our project teams was completing. The expansion included a pedestrian bridge between the two buildings.
To ensure cohesion between the two projects, extensive logistics planning, constant communication with the adjacent project, and ongoing collaboration between construction activities were provided.
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