Innovation, enhanced efficiency, and substantial cost savings characterize HEAPY’s contributions to Bon Secours Mercy Health’s Kings Mills Hospital and medical office building in Mason, Ohio. Anticipated to span 206,000 square feet, the project is on track for completion by November, with plans to open its doors to patients in 2024.
HEAPY’s Healthcare practice worked with an integrated project team to utilize new strategies for safer, faster, and more cost-effective delivery to meet various construction challenges including labor shortages, supply chain disruption and price increases. At the core of the innovative strategies implemented by the project team were unique modifications to traditional methods of prefabrication and preconstruction. Rather than using a standard offsite prefabrication, this project utilized an onsite industrialized construction center (ICC). Whereas a typical prefabrication plan presented logistic, size, and time constraints, the ICC allowed prefabricated components to be assembled and immediately put into place which significantly reduced cost and enabled a five-month acceleration of the construction schedule.
Using the ICC model, the project team, including HEAPY, Danis, GBBN and the owner, prefabricated 25 percent of the Kings Mills superstructure (including 90 percent of the building’s exterior walls and 1,770 full corridor racks and 1,440 mini racks). This model moved the project so quickly that finishes to the building envelope and the interior-fit out began four months earlier than a traditional timeline.
“Our colleagues are known for their ability to thrill clients with cost savings without sacrificing safety, efficiency, or resiliency in our designs,” says Daric Hess, HEAPY Healthcare Practice Director. “HEAPY takes pride in collaborating with our partners and clients, who share our commitment to advancing industry innovation, as we work together to fulfill our purpose of creating a sustainable, well and more resilient society”.
To learn more about HEAPY’s role with the Mercy Health Kings Mills Hospital project, read the full story at Healthcare Design Magazine.
