Banner Gateway Medical Center Tower Expansion Doubles Size of Medical Campus

McCarthy Building Companies recently completed the $243-million, five-story Banner Gateway Medical Center tower expansion project, located in Gilbert, Arizona. The expansion doubles the size of the medical center campus and is expected to add more than 600 new jobs to the campus.

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The 351,000-square-foot addition includes an expanded Women and Infant Services Unit with NICU, added space for inpatient cancer care by Banner MD Anderson Cancer Center (located on the same campus) and more space for surgical, emergency, endoscopy and imaging services, including four new operating rooms, a new MRI, as well as angiogram and endoscopy suites. In addition, the tower expansion increases inpatient beds from 177 to 286 with additional shell space to accommodate future growth, and the relocation of the helipad to the new tower’s rooftop.

The project was managed using a modified Integrated Project Delivery with the owner, design team, general contractor and trade partners all co-locating in a virtual “big room,” allowing for the project’s design and construction strategies to be developed and enhanced through a robust system of collaboration, solution innovations and coordination strategies being brought to the project to ensure operational excellence and end-user efficiency.

The architect on the project was SmithGroup with civil engineering led by Dibble Engineering and structural engineering led by PK Associates. Field Verified served as an exterior skin consultant.

Construction on the tower expansion began in February 2021 and some campus renovation work will continue into 2024.