Swedish contractor Skanska announced on Tuesday that it had signed a contract with Lee Health to build a hospital and office building in Fort Myers, Florida.
The $435m project will consist of a 38,600-sq-m, five-storey hospital, an energy plant, and an 11,600-sq-m medical office building, which includes an ambulatory surgery centre.
The hospital will have a dozen operating rooms, a gymnasium for physiotherapy, and clinics specialising in orthopaedics, spinal injuries, rheumatology and infectious disease.
Lee Health is the largest healthcare provider in Florida, with 1,812 beds, and more than 1.5 million patient contacts a year.
Skanska has worked for the company before. In 2017, it acted as construction manager on Golisano Children’s Hospital, a seven-storey facility that brought together all Lee Health’s paediatric services (pictured).
Utility construction is presently under way, and completion is scheduled for the fourth quarter of 2027.
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