ENR 2024 Midwest Best Projects
Best Project, Healthcare: Essentia Health
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Essentia Health St. Mary’s Medical Center
Duluth, Minn.
BEST PROJECT
Submitted by: EwingCole
Owner: Essentia Health
Lead Design Firm, Structural Engineer, MEP Engineer: EwingCole
General Contractor: McGough Construction
Civil Engineer: LHB
Landscape Architect: Damon Farber
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Situated in Duluth, Minn., on the shore of Lake Superior, St. Mary’s Medical Center is a major regional medical hub serving patients in northern Minnesota and western Wisconsin.
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The $900-million facility sits on an existing medical campus that required blasting of a cliff face, demolition of existing structures, remodeling of and a tie-in to existing buildings and a three-story vertical expansion above one of the occupied clinical buildings.
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Completion of this project was made possible through the close collaboration among the owner, architect, construction manager and more than 50 trade partners, with more than 2,800 individual contributors and a peak workforce of over 740 craftworkers from 33 states and 626 zip codes.
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Various project challenges included upgrading pandemic air systems and adding a rooftop garden and pavilion.
