When the leadership team at Shannon Medical Center in San Angelo, Texas, first considered an expansion back in 2012, the scope called for a three-level addition. Those plans were scrapped, but in 2016 the team revived the project—this time with a 75,000-sq-ft, seven-story bed tower and more than 22,000 sq ft of renovations to four floors of the hospital. That included a full intensive care unit expansion and renovation, an expanded emergency department, more operating rooms and additional gastrointestinal procedure rooms and catheterization labs.
“We spent most of 2016 in design and then securing a contractor,” says Dale Droll, director of engineering at Shannon Medical Center.