Author: Sarah Barber
"Our employees and design-build teams worked side-by-side to build a state-of-the-art health care campus that will care for our community for generations to come."
Engineering News-Record (ENR) Midwest has awarded McLaren Greater Lansing an Award of Merit in in its 2022 Best Projects competition.
An independent panel of Application Engineering Company (AEC) experts reviewed a total of 64 projects. Of those projects, 13 received Best Projects recognition and 10 received Awards of Merit across 16 categories, including cultural/worship, energy/industrial, government/public building, health care, higher education/research, highway/bridge, interior/tenant, K-12 education, landscape/urban development, manufacturing, office/retail/mixed use, residential/hospitality, small project (under $10 million), sports/entertainment, and more.
“This project was rewarding to be a part of,” said John Patterson, VP of Support Services at McLaren Greater Lansing. “Our employees and design-build teams worked side-by-side to build a state-of-the-art health care campus that will care for our community for generations to come.”
More about McLaren Greater Lansing’s Replacement Project:
The project consolidated two existing Lansing hospitals into a new 562,000 square foot hospital adjacent to Michigan State University (MSU). The nine-story, 240-bed hospital is nestled within a 39-acre, $601 million health care campus. The state-of-the-art hospital includes all private patient rooms equipped with the latest technology and modern conveniences. All rooms feature large windows, and most include views of MSU’s football stadium or agricultural fields, East Lansing, or downtown Lansing.
The facility has a dedicated ambulance entrance, where there are four enclosed bays to unload patients, and a ground-level helicopter pad. The emergency department has all private rooms, specially designed trauma rooms and elevators, an observation unit, and mental health rooms with specific features designed for patient and staff safety, as well as CT, X-ray, ultrasound, and vascular imaging in the emergency room.