News Skanska wins three contracts in US worth $428m Skanska has won a hospital expansion in Oregon, a Marine Operations Centre in Rhode Island and a war memorial restoration in Tennessee. The schemes have a total value of $428m.…
News Foster + Partners, Gilbane and CannonDesign chosen for $5bn Minnesota healthcare scheme A team comprising UK architect Foster + Partners and US firms CannonDesign and Gilbane Building have been picked for a $5bn healthcare project in the city of Rochester, Minnesota. Healthcare…
News Turner Construction chosen for $186m New York hospital tower Turner Construction has won a $186m contract to build a 96-bed patient care tower at Westchester Medical Centre in Valhalla, New York. The wing will offer trauma care, and facilities…
News World’s largest medical complex to have low-carbon concrete extension Mexican cement company Cemex is to provide 20,000 cubic yards of low-carbon concrete for an extension to Houston Methodist’s Centennial Tower, the world’s largest medical complex. Structural work on the…
Projects How Skanska built this medical building three months early, saving $3m Skanska USA says it has completed a three-story, 69,000-square-foot medical building nearly three months ahead of schedule, with a $3m cost saving to the client despite the covid pandemic and…
News CPB to lead detailed design of Bundaberg’s $1.2bn new hospital The state government of Queensland, Australia has picked Cimic group company CPB Contractors to lead the detailed design phase of the A$1.2bn (US$788m) New Bundaberg Hospital. Bundaberg is a city…
News Skanska wins two US projects worth $176m Skanska has signed two contracts with existing clients in the US, one in Florida worth $109m and another in Arizona at $67m. In Lakeland, west Florida, Skanska will build a…
News Thai cement firm prints two-story medical centre Thailand’s Siam Cement Group (SCG) has printed a two-storey medical centre in Saraburi, Thailand, billed as the first of its kind in the world. It used Danish printer-maker Cobod’s BOD2…
News Skanska tops out California mental health centre Skanska has topped out all buildings at the new Cordilleras Mental Health Centre it is building south of San Francisco for client San Mateo County in California. Skanska says the…
News Skanska lands $111m extension to Oregon hospital contract Swedish contractor Skanska has won a $111m extension to a $63m contract awarded in September 2022 by Oregon Health & Science University. The work involves the university’s hospital in Portland,…
News UK agrees to support specialist burns hospital in Angola The UK’s export credit agency, UK Export Finance (UKEF), will provide £130m in guarantees for the construction of a specialist burns hospital in Kilamba, north west Angola. The seven-storey hospital…
News CPB Contractors retained to work on $700m Sydney hospital refurbishment Cimic Group subsidiary CPB Contractors has won a US$180m deal to deliver the second stage of a hospital refurbishment in Sydney, having already completed the first. The work will be…
News Hill to oversee construction of $400m teaching hospital in Jordan The Saudi Jordanian Fund for Medical and Educational Investments Company (SJFMEI) has chosen US consultant Hill International to manage the construction of a 330-bed university hospital in Amman, the capital…
News SNC-Lavalin wins $62m contract to decant old army hospital to new one SNC-Lavalin has been awarded a $62m contract by the US Army Corps of Engineers to move equipment and operations from a 40-year-old army hospital in Missouri to a brand new…
News China-funded ‘friendship hospital’ set to boost healthcare in Cambodia A five-storey hospital in the eastern Cambodian town of Tboung Khmum was officially opened this week by Prime Minister Hun Sen and Wang Wentian, China’s ambassador to Phnom Penh.