Rhode Island Hospital Bridge Building Expansion-Providence, R.I.
Working around packed corridors, emergency entrances and busy operating rooms all while trying to build a 90,000-sq-ft vertical expansion to Rhode Islands’ largest healthcare facility created a slew of challenges during the construction of the Rhode Island Hospital Bridge Building Expansion.
Shaun Carvahlo, Director of Safety for Boston, Mass-based Shawmut Design and Construction – which served as construction manager on the project – described the construction challenge of the $48 million, three-story addition above a fully operational Level One Trauma Center as “not unlike performing open heart surgery on a moving patient.”