SkyscraperPage Forum - {SA} 2.1 Billion In Construction for Three Seperate Projects Planned for SA

SkyscraperPage Forum (https://skyscraperpage.com/forum/index.php)

- San Antonio (https://skyscraperpage.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=447)

- - {SA} 2.1 Billion In Construction for Three Seperate Projects Planned for SA (https://skyscraperpage.com/forum/showthread.php?t=162107)

{SA} 2.1 Billion In Construction for Three Seperate dical Projects Planned for SA

Starting today with the ground breaking of the 724 million BAMC (soon to SAMMC-North) expansion. Though the University Hospital construction isn't part of BRAC, it's still a pretty sizable project. Keep in mind this is separate for the billions being spelt on other projects city wide.

http://img360.imageshack.us/img360/7908/111111ay3.png
courtesy of KSAT.com

http://media.mysanantonio.com/design...go-mysa-sm.gif

Quote:

BAMC projects expected to jolt economy

By Sig Christenson - Express-News

A base closure round that sent shivers down the spines of San Antonio leaders only three years ago is about to get bigger and better than ever, and the timing is right out of a Hollywood movie — the kind in which the cavalry rides over the hill just in the nick of time.

Ground will be broken today on a $724 million expansion of Brooke Army Medical Center, the most expensive project ordered yet in this area by the 2005 Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission.

More than just the San Antonio-area economy stands to benefit amid a deepening recession. BAMC’s transformation, among 78 BRAC-related projects in the city, also will revolutionize emergency medical care for troops and area residents.

“I think it’s going to be a better trauma care system,” Bexar County Judge Nelson Wolff said, noting that an expansion of University Hospital is coming as well. “Between the two hospitals, up graded technology, more emergency rooms, it’s just a great leap forward, I think.”

BAMC and Wilford Hall Medical Center will get new names — San Antonio Military Medical Center North and South, respectively. They’ll be dramatically different facilities, each with specific capabilities and run by the Air Force, Army and Navy. That hasn’t happened since San Antonio became home to the nation’s first joint medical command in 1987.

BAMC will add nearly 760,000 square feet, renovate about 288,000 square feet and serve as one of two Level 1 trauma centers in the city as Wilford Hall evolves into an outpatient surgical center. The half-century-old Air Force hospital will be revamped at a cost of $50 million and shutter its top five floors or be replaced by a $441 million center. That matter could be settled this fall.

Wilford Hall no longer will serve as a Level 1 trauma center, but local leaders say BAMC’s expanded ER will bolster the city’s ability to treat victims of car accidents and violent crimes. Wolff, Mayor Phil Hardberger and others say more air ambulance flights will be made to cut transit time for trauma patients on the South and Southwest Sides.

The 2005 BRAC was dreaded because the 1995 closure round shuttered Kelly AFB, costing 10,000 jobs. But in making San Antonio home of joint enlisted medical training, the commission also delivered $2 billion in new construction and renovation of historic buildings, and 12,400 jobs to Fort Sam. Work on the post’s most complex project, the Pentagon-sized Medical Education & Training Campus, began in July. It will train 32,000 Air Force, Army and Navy medics here every year.

“If you look overall at what BRAC does in San Antonio, it combines the two medical centers here into one entity, which is great for both the Air Force and the Army’s medical capability,” said Wilford Hall’s commander, Maj. Gen. Tom Travis.

“If you look at the combination of medical education and training for the Air Force, Army and Navy as part of METC, that’s very good for the services because we train side by side,” he added. “But it’s really also positive for San Antonio because a lot of personnel flow into San Antonio for the METC.”

The city’s Economic Development Department reports that the military’s annual economic impact is $13.3 billion. Fort Sam says that BRAC will generate another $5.7 billion through 2011. Its ripple effects have “softened the effects of the recession” by ensuring a constant flow of money into the regional economy, Hardberger said, calling that cash “a very good cushioner” as industries such as home construction falter.

One expert pointed to the military’s impact on nonresidential building construction. This year, Doug McMurry said, bases here accounted for more than one-third of the area’s $3 billion in that economic sector.

Though commercial construction projects aren’t likely to help workers in the sagging residential construction industry because their skills aren’t easily adapted to big jobs, he remained optimistic about the area’s health in 2009.

“There are three very bright spots in San Antonio as it relates to building construction: military, education and health care,” said McMurry, executive vice president of the San Antonio chapter of the Associated General Contractors. “And while things remain uncertain in other parts of the country and while we understand there is some anxiety and pessimism elsewhere, we are very optimistic about a robust building program in San Antonio.”

BRAC’s impact isn’t isolated to the military. An $899 million expansion of two Bexar County hospitals is in the works. University Hospital, a county-run facility that handles 70,000 emergency cases a year and often diverts patients, will get a new trauma tower. It also will be upgraded, as will University Health Center Downtown.

I had already posted that article in the metro thread. Here's another one in today's E-N.

By Sig Christenson - Express-News

The launching of a new era is usually wrapped in lots of pomp and circumstance, but the Army and Air Force kept things relatively simple Monday as they broke ground on a $724 million expansion of Brooke Army Medical Center.

The Air Force and Army surgeon generals made brief speeches before a crowd of 200 and then donned white plastic hard hats. Standing in front of a long rectangular wooden box in a parking lot outside BAMC, they drove silver-plated spades into thick brown earth. The Army Medical Command Band played a medley of service songs and then, after a breezy half-hour, the show was over.

Though low-key, the groundbreaking ceremony heralds a new day for military medicine in San Antonio. The BAMC expansion is the biggest project yet on Fort Sam — part of $2 billion in construction around town driven by the 2005 base closure round.

“I think that much construction is enormous,” Mayor Phil Hardberger said. “It will certainly be a multiple of the $2 billion that is being put in because once you put that much money into the economy it circulates around and reaches well outside the construction community.”

There's more beyond that bottom line. Everything changes with the turning of a little dirt, right down to the way the Air Force and Army train their recruits and provide medical care to troops and civilians.

BAMC will grow by nearly 760,000 square feet, absorbing Wilford Hall Medical Center's inpatient care and Level 1 trauma center. The hospitals will get new names, San Antonio Military Medical Center North and South, and distinctly new missions that will see Air Force, Army and Navy medical personnel working together more than they do today.

“Quite candidly, these warriors down here in front of us .... every one of them will tell you it's of no consequence or interest to them what color uniform takes care of them,” said Lt. Gen. (Dr.) Eric Schoomaker, the Army surgeon general. “All they want to know is they're getting the very best care possible and, frankly, San Antonio's doing that for us.”

The 2005 Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission ordered the changes as part of a larger overall move to create “joint” military operations. The idea is to save money and become more efficient.

The two hospitals today offer many of the same services. Wilford Hall logs 140 emergency room visits, six births, 35 surgeries and 9,285 lab procedures — every day. BAMC recorded 123 daily ER visits, 58 surgeries and 3,039 lab procedures.

When SAMMC North goes into business in 2011, it will handle all ER visits, births, surgeries and lab procedures. Fort Sam Houston also will be home to the Medical Education & Training Campus, where 32,000 Army, Navy and Air Force medics will be trained each year. SAMMC South will specialize in outpatient clinics and urgent care for Lackland AFB recruits.

“San Antonio has long been a mainstay in Air Force medicine. San Antonio will remain a mainstay in Air Force medicine,” said Lt. Gen. (Dr.) James Roudebush, the Air Force surgeon general. “Nothing will be lost, nothing will be diminished. In fact, my view is I think it will be better.”

As the Army and Air Force transform their medical systems here, Bexar County is preparing to expand University Hospital and University Health Center-Downtown. Commissioners have approved an $899 million expansion of both hospitals, in part to meet the region's growing need for trauma care.

“We're investing as much as they are or more. We made that decision obviously for several different reasons — one, we're handling 70,000 emergency cases for a hospital that is built for 35,000, and so we thought the timing was important,” said Bexar County Judge Nelson Wolff.

“We're known as Military City, U.S.A.,” said retired Air Force Col. Bill Rasco, president and CEO of the Greater San Antonio Hospital Council. “But I think we're going to potentially earn the name Medical City, U.S.A. because of the presence of the Department of the Defense, and also the presence of the Veterans Administration here and the new polytrauma center that is being built adjacent to the VA here.”

Ground was broken in April of this year for my work area, the BHTRC.
Here is a video of the main portion of SAMMC-N,
http://www.sammc.amedd.army.mil/imag...-medical01.jpg
not only will it consolidate the buildings, it will also consolidate personnel and make SAMMC-N a Tri-service center.

From Harry Wurzbach, the next four are the METC buildings 1 and 2.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3130/...242ec4.jpg?v=0
From Shoppette parking lot(by building 929, my old barracks)
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3363/...2fd9ab.jpg?v=0
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3085/...2a1261.jpg?v=0
By NCO club
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3383/...5beae7.jpg?v=0
Across the NCO club, behind old Gym and old Med. Clinic. This is to be the
new dining facility for the Air Force and Navy students.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3444/...30e0a5.jpg?v=0
New dorms across from old Clinic.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3078/...d0f55e.jpg?v=0
more dorms
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3348/...a6f26f.jpg?v=0
Cranes at BAMC/SAMMC-N
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3300/...c839b8.jpg?v=0
(Bad) Map of pics I took:METC 1,2, Dining Facility and Dorms.
The only ones that have not been started are the two square purple buildings near the center. The bottom right corner purple buildings are the dorms, the left corner purple squares up top are the ones under construction now with the cranes. The larger rectangular purple building is the DiFac.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3099/...b58bf6.jpg?v=0

There is alot more construction going on there; a couple of HQ buildings, The new gym, chapel, renovations galore, and the new Clinic.

Any specs/plans/renderings of these buildings?

SAMMC-N and METC

photos from USACE, and Parsons.com
New trauma tower at BAMC (SAMMC-N)
http://www.parsons.com/about/press_r...main-photo.jpg
Aerial view of new SAMMC-N - will create one of the DoD’s largest
inpatient facilities and its largest ambulatory clinic. The existing facility will be expanded by 50% to include a multistory addition that will house a Level 1 trauma center, operating rooms, clinical and administrative space—and an extension of its internationally respected burn center. A 5,000-space parking garage will also be built, and 288,000 ft2 of existing facilities will be renovated.
http://www.parsons.com/about/press_r...main/SAMMC.jpg
rebar at Joint Center of Excellence for Battlefield Health and Trauma (my new workplace in 10 months) There will be over 1500 personnel moving here from Navy, Army, AirForce; uniformed and civilian, from Great Lakes to Maryland and working in this building alone, to begin arriving in Feb. of 2010. This is an extensinon of ISR facilities, currently between the southwest portion of the BAMC and the CFI and Fisher House.
http://www.parsons.com/about/press_r...ain/BHTRF2.jpg
Sky view of METC Campus; dorms on right side, METC 3 & 4 in center, METC 1 & 2 and DiFac on left side. METC will consolidate medical training programs for enlisted personnel from all branches of the U.S. military. The campus will be 1.9 million ft2 of facilities, and it will serve an average daily enrollment of 9,000 students.
http://www.parsons.com/about/press_r..._main/METC.jpg
http://www.parsons.com/about/press_r..._main/MC-1.jpg http://www.parsons.com/about/press_r..._main/MC-2.jpg
This will be the size of a small college, the only difference is, these students get paid on the 15th and EOM. 9,000 daily enrollment, 2500 cadre, command and support personnel for the METC portion alone. I think it'll be a nice addition to SA's economy.

Third Part of this thread

Looks like University DT has a new design.

from mysa.com

Quote:

By Don Finley and Jennifer Hiller - Express-News
It wasn't the prettiest choice, most agreed. But in the end, the most functional and cost-efficient design for a new public hospital for San Antonio was chosen over two others in a national design competition Tuesday.

On the staff's recommendation, board members of the tax-supported University Health System bypassed two designs considered more aesthetically pleasing and chose a functional, cost-effective option that offered up the best layout of interior hospital space.

A glass-and-steel structure designed by the Dallas office of Perkins + Will, working with local firms Garza/Bomberger & Associates, RVK Architects and Richard Sanchez Architects, was the winning design for the new hospital.

Of a $900 million plan to expand and renovate both the aging and overcrowded hospital and the former Brady-Green Community Health Center downtown, about $778 million is set aside for University Hospital — including furnishings, equipment and other “soft” costs.
continue reading....

I like it. It has glass. It's long. It's 11 stories. It'll add to that area just northwest of downtown.

http://media.mysanantonio.com/images...ospital300.jpg

Though, does anyone have renderings of the two other proposals?

Quote:

Originally Posted by sirkingwilliam (Post 4259180)

any clue where this will be located exactly - can anyone place it on a map?

The article does say that some of the "losing" firms will have a chance to tweak the design a bit, but I'm OK with it like it is in the rendering.

I mean, come on, this is SA we're talking about here ;)

Quote:

Originally Posted by sakyle04 (Post 4259213)

any clue where this will be located exactly - can anyone place it on a map?

With that parking garage in the back, I would assume it is the 'tower' off of Perez, which is on the left here. Although the view we are looking at the rendering could be of a vew off of 10/87 but I think it is off of Perez looking north.
http://www.universityhealthsystem.co...-rendering.jpg

Quote:

Originally Posted by oldmanshirt (Post 4259254)

the design could use more brown. and fewer windows would be nice.

it is very wide, though, which is good.
:rolleyes:

I like how it's on top of a parking structure and there's greenscape on the top of the parking structure as well.

Quote:

Originally Posted by sirkingwilliam (Post 4259180)

I do.

And looks like I was confused, this rendering is for the MC campus. A trusted source at the UHS told me that the final sitting of the DT building has not yet been determined and no rendering is available yet.

Post them!

So that's in the MC? Cool. It'll look better than imo.

Quote:

Originally Posted by sirkingwilliam (Post 4274133)

Post them!

So that's in the MC? Cool. It'll look better than imo.

The one already posted is the NorthEast view.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3416/...5e5cd4.jpg?v=0

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3652/...ed5bf4.jpg?v=0

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2458/...8c5498.jpg?v=0

This is one of the other renderings, not great but thats all I have.:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3371/...1fcd48.jpg?v=0

all renderings courtesy UHS

Oh thank God that's the MC building. It's cool, but not fit architecturally for downtown.

^Agreed. It reminds me of an airport hotel. The type you see inside the airport land.

Wouldn't it be better to build the new hospital in the Midtown area where the other hospitals and medical buildings are? I mean, seriously, why not create a midtown medical center that could easily be connected with the Medical Center.