When owner legal issues idled construction of the highly touted “hospital of the future” in Birmingham, Ala., in 2003, Brasfield & Gorrie project director Robert Robison knew it might be some time before work on the half-finished, 13-story, 1 million-sq-ft facility resumed.
“We were told we wouldn’t be paid,” Robison recalls, “so we made sure the exterior was sealed, settled up with all 85 of our subs and suppliers and waited to see what happened.”