WSP | Parsons Brinckerhoff to Design Systems for Banner University Medical Center

PHOENIX, Ariz. – Banner Health has awarded a contract to WSP + ccrd, part of WSP | Parsons Brinckerhoff’s U.S. buildings group, for the design of building systems for a new 13-story addition to its Banner Health Medical Center in Phoenix, Arizona.

The 400,000-square-foot tower addition will be erected on top of a three-story, 300,000-square-foot emergency department building that is under construction and was designed with the assistance of WSP + ccrd. The patient tower will include four ICU floors, seven medical-surgical floors and two shell floors. The project also involves a new chiller building, new supply chain building, new medium-voltage power plant, new main campus entry/lobby and large renovations to the existing hospital. The combined total of the ED and tower project accounts for 1,150,000 square feet of new and heavily renovated space.

Building systems for the hospital will include a new 12.47kV normal distribution system, a new 10MW 4.16kV emergency power plant, new heating hot water system and a 1,045 ton chiller and cooling tower expansion.

Construction on the $314-million project is scheduled for completion in early 2020.