Fort Myers, FL, (May 4, 2018) – Skanska USA, one of the world’s leading construction and development firms, is deploying two 550-foot-tall cranes – which will be the highest cranes visible in the air in Southwest Florida – for the expansion and renovation of the Gulf Coast Medical Center in Fort Myers. The hospital’s expansion will add three floors consisting of 216 patient rooms and 52 intensive care unit rooms to better serve patients in the Southwest Florida community.
Skanska, which is leading this project in a joint venture with Gates Construction on behalf of Lee Health, will build the hospital’s 365,700-square-foot expansion and renovate 48,500 square feet of space. As part of phase one, a 1,300-space parking garage was built and opened in August 2017. Skanska completed an earlier project for the hospital in 2009.
“Over the years, Skanska has had the privilege to partner with Gulf Coast Medical Center to help the hospital expand and meet growing healthcare needs in the Fort Myers community,” said Michael C. Brown, executive vice president and general manager of Skanska USA’s building operations in Florida. “With our latest project with Lee Health, we will continue to showcase our team’s expertise in healthcare construction to further enhance and grow the hospital’s state-of-the-art facilities.”
Designed by architecture firm HKS, Inc., the $229 million hospital project is slated for completion in September 2021. The scope of work includes expansion of the emergency department, clinical laboratory, radiology department, dining services and the central energy plant. Once the expansion is complete, the Gulf Coast Medical Center’s bed capacity will increase from 356 to 624.
Currently, Skanska is building several healthcare construction projects in Florida, including the renovation at the Salah Foundation Children’s Hospital and an expansion at Broward Health North, both located in Broward County. It completed in November a major expansion of UF Health Shands’ Cardiovascular and Neuroscience Hospital in Gainesville. In addition, Skanska recently delivered the new 128-bed Golisano Children’s Hospital of Southwest Florida in Fort Myers, also a Lee Health facility.
For further information please contact:
Sherie Winston, Skanska, [email protected], (571) 232-7665
Yudi Fernandez, Schwartz Media for Skanska, yudi@schwartz-media.com, (305) 858-3935
About Skanska
Skanska USA is one of the largest, most financially sound construction and development companies in the U.S., serving a broad range of clients including those in transportation, power, industrial, water/wastewater, healthcare, education, sports, data centers, government, aviation, life sciences and commercial. Headquartered in New York with offices in 31 metro areas, we have nearly 11,000 employees committed to being leaders in safety, project execution, sustainability, ethics and people development. In 2017, our work in building construction, civil and power/industrial construction, commercial development and infrastructure development (public-private partnerships) generated $7.3 billion in revenue. Global revenue of parent company Skanska AB, headquartered in Stockholm and listed on the Stockholm Stock Exchange, totaled $18.8 billion in 2017. Skanska shares are publicly traded in the U.S. on the OTC market under the symbol SKBSY through a Level I American Depository Receipt program.
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