Skanska Builds $189M Patient Bed Tower in North Carolina

Skanska has signed a contract with Duke University Health System to build a patient bed tower addition at Duke University Healthcare’s main campus in Durham, North Carolina.

The contract consists of the construction of about a 500,000-square-foot, 13-story patient tower with 350 patient rooms, including adult and pediatric medical-surgical and ICU rooms, bone marrow transplant and isolation rooms, as well as two labs.

The groundbreaking took place in September 2017 and the project is expected to be completed during the fall 2021.

The project architect is Perkins+Will.