The project involved construction of an 11-floor, 565,000-sq-ft pediatric care facility that is one of the world’s most advanced of its type.

The building includes a five-floor heart center, a neonatal intensive care unit, single inpatient rooms and larger spaces for pharmacy, sterile processing and pathology units. Info-sharing hubs and an open-floor concept clinical lab were designed to enhance clinician cooperation. Features include an enhanced interventional radiology suite, new hybrid operating rooms and a surgical theater with a transportable MRI scanner on a ceiling-mounted rail system to move between two operating rooms.

The building also includes four below grade floors, a two-story mechanical penthouse on the roof and a mechanical systems floor at the base and in a double-story section in the middle of the building.

In addition to the new pediatric care building’s varied medical functions and mechanical systems, the new center also includes 25% more green space, both inside and outdoors.