WILMINGTON, DE-One example of Skanska's prefabrication development pipeline is its $215 million contract to expand the Nemours/Alfred I. duPont Hospital here.
The project is a five-story, 425,000-square-foot, 144-bed expansion to the existing Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children. It includes a 108,000-square-foot, 188-car ground level parking garage below the new addition.
"We are pre-fabricating 144 patient rooms," Tony Colonna, vice president of prefabrication operations at Skanska, tells GlobeSt.com. The pre-fabrication work is currently underway and 80% of the patient rooms are complete. Installation is scheduled to start next month and the facility will deliver in 2014.
As Colonna explains here, the main benefit to pre-fabrication is the time saved in construction – time that translates into revenue for the company because a building is put into operation that much sooner. For the hospital, Skanska pushed up the delivery by four months from a 35-month schedule.
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Erika Morphy
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