Best Project Health Care Omaha VA Ambulatory Care Center
Built as a public-private partnership—a first for the U.S. Dept. of Veterans Affairs—this three-level, 157,000-sq-ft outpatient care facility maximized the benefits of construction manager at-risk project delivery and concurrent designer-contractor collaboration. Early identification of discrepancies in subsurface utility maps for the 70-acre campus allowed seamless updates of design documents, avoiding potential schedule and cost impacts. Rather than splicing multiple steel sections for the superstructure columns as originally planned, the building team simplified the erection process by using single 63-ft-long continuous columns. With much of the steel erection work scheduled to take place through cold winter months, the team developed a bolted moment connection option that eliminated the need for welding yet preserved the building’s design and schedule.