Groundbreaking Held for UCHealth Memorial Hospital North Expansion

HOUSTON, Texas – WHR Architects recently joined representatives from UCHealth and the community to celebrate a major expansion of Memorial Hospital North. The project will advance care for patients in northern Colorado Springs, Colorado, especially for new mothers and babies and patients who have been diagnosed with cancer. The general contractor on the project is G.E. Johnson Construction Company.

After months of planning, construction has begun on the $85-million project that will add 130,000 square feet of space to the north campus. The four-story building will provide connections to the existing hospital and to the new Children’s Hospital Colorado being built just 60 feet away. Both projects are scheduled to open in 2018. The construction helps Memorial Hospital North, which opened as a small community hospital in 2007, to continue growing into a full-service medical campus, offering acute care and clinical trials to patients in northern El Paso County.

“The design of the addition draws on the distinctive architecture of the existing hospital in material, fenestration and color to reinforce a sense of place, a connection to the campus and the UCHealth brand,” said Tushar Gupta, AIA, WHR’s lead designer. “A strong stone plinth gives definition to the new building while the brick of the expansion wings references the context and an abundance of glass offers views to the mountains.”