Los Angeles, CA, November 11, 2014 – Bernards, a nationally ranked commercial builder headquartered in Los Angeles, has been selected to serve as design-builder for the construction of a new $110 million, six-story tower at Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital, a 238-bed not-for-profit community hospital and trauma center located in the Santa Clarita Valley, approximately 33 miles northwest of Los Angeles.
Bernards has partnered with the Los Angeles office of HMC Architects for this project which was awarded in June 2014 and is scheduled for completion in May of 2018. The new six-story, 160,000-square-foot patient tower will connect to the existing hospital and will add 116 private room beds. The hospital is located at 23845 McBean Parkway in Valencia, California.
The new tower will feature a dedicated maternity floor including twenty Anti-Partum / Post-Partum (before and after birth) private room beds, along with six LDR (Labor/Delivery/Recovery) private room beds. There will also be two operating rooms for C-Section deliveries. Other features of the tower include three floors of medical surgical private room beds, a helipad on the roof, and new kitchen/servery/dining areas with a soothing exterior dining garden space. One floor of the tower (21,500 SF) will be left as shell area ready for the hospital’s future build out of thirty-three additional private room beds. The project will also include a new loading-receiving dock and a free standing indoor/outdoor central plant.
“We are very pleased that Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital has selected Bernards to lead the design and construction of this important new healthcare facility,” said Greg Simons, Bernards’ chief operations officer. “With our design partner, HMC Architects, our team will closely collaborate with the Hospital to achieve their facility objectives and provide the community with additional high quality patient care.”
“Our healthcare team has extensive experience working in partnership with architects to make design/build projects a win-win,” commented Steve Pellegren, DBIA who is Bernards’ executive vice president. “California healthcare projects are particularly complex because of the nuances associated with the OSHPD (Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development) approval process. One tool our design-build team uses to manage the intricacies of a project like this is the use of highly advanced technology like BIM, which when utilized in the field is readily accessed on handheld tablets,” Pellegren explained, noting that this technology ultimately saves the cost of hundreds of labor man-hours.
Bluebeam software used by Bernards converts files and drawings into PDFs and allows team members to edit, add, delete or rotate pages; search PDFs for keywords or symbols; share and store an unlimited number of documents; and collaborate in real time with project partners. The program also electronically compares document revisions and automatically generates hyperlinks for large document sets.
Over the years, Bernards has built a number of healthcare projects throughout Southern and Central California. The firm is currently also under way on a new $85 million, 25-bed, 79,000-square-foot hospital in Tehachapi, Calif., as the lead partner in a Joint Venture with Colombo Construction of Bakersfield for the Tehachapi Valley Health Care District. Other recent healthcare projects include two facilities at White Memorial Medical Center in Los Angeles - a new concourse building, featuring a main entrance and lobby, waiting areas, chapel, gift shop, garden trellis and porte-cochere, and a 60,000-square-foot, three-story medical office building with three levels of parking.
Bernards, which is celebrating its 40thanniversary this year, is an award-winning commercial construction firm. In recent years, projects built by Bernards have been recognized with various awards: One Santa Fe and 8500 Burton Way received 2014 Los Angeles Architectural Awards; 8500 Burton Way also received 2013 awards from Engineering News Record and Los Angeles Business Journal; the El Encanto Hotel restoration project received the 2013 Santa Barbara Beautiful President’s Award; White Memorial Medical Center’s New Main Entrance Complex received the LA Business Journal’s Healthcare Project of the Year in 2012; and Claremont McKenna College’s Kravis Center received the 2011 Engineering News Record ‘Best of the Best’ Award forBest Higher Education/Research Project, as well as a 2012 Los Angeles Business Journal Architectural Award and awards from the City of Claremont, Los Angeles Business Council and a Cal-OSHA Golden Gate Safety Award.
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About Bernards
Bernards is a nationally ranked, multidisciplinary commercial builder & construction management company that provides technical expertise and outstanding professional services to developers, corporate entities, educational institutions and governmental agencies. Areas of expertise include comprehensive preconstruction, general contracting, construction management, program management, design-build, building information modeling (BIM), and integrated project delivery (IPD) services. Bernards’ projects include sports and entertainment venues, health care facilities, mixed-use complexes, multifamily housing, and educational, detention, and civic facilities. The company’s core values include a focus on safety, quality, sustainability, diversity and community involvement. Bernards is headquartered in Los Angeles, with four additional regional offices throughout California and the Southwest and employing more than 280 employees, over 40 of whom are LEED® Accredited Professionals. For more information, visitwww.bernards.com.
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