Photo courtesy MEDCO Construction

Award of Merit winner in the Health Care category.

The $127-million Baylor Charles A. Sammons Cancer Center is a 467,000-sq-ft outpatient cancer-treatment facility connected by sky bridge to the inpatient areas of the Baylor University Medical Center campus and two parking garages. The structure received LEED-Gold certification.

The 10-story building features a curtain wall facade of glass-fiber reinforced concrete, stone, glass and metal panels.

MEDCO Construction, Dallas, delivered the project ahead of schedule in February 2011.

Key Players

Owner: Baylor Health Care System, Dallas

GC: MEDCO Construction, Dallas

Lead Design: Perkins & Will, Dallas

Civil: Raymond L. Goodson, Dallas

Structural: L.A. Fuess Partners, Dallas

MEP: CCRD Partners, Dallas

Road Materials Testing Agent: Rone Engineering Service, Dallas

Landscape Engineer: Newman, Jackson, Bieberstein, Dallas

Submitted by:

MEDCO Construction