Location: Birmingham, Alabama
Completed: 2004
Cost: $42 million

Located in Birmingham, Alabama, St. Vincent’s Outpatient and Professional Office Building is a 380,000 square foot facility.  It is the second phase of a master plan program aimed to accommodate the continued growth of St. Vincent’s Hospital. Commonly referred to as the St. Vincent’s North Tower, the building consists of a six-story tower above a five-level parking garage.  A two-story connector spans over an existing parking garage to join the new facility with the existing St. Vincent’s Hospital Women’s and Children’s Center.  The lower levels of the new parking garage connect with the existing parking levels of the Women’s and Children’s Center.  This new facility includes outpatient surgery, labor and delivery, diagnostic imaging center and a neurosurgery center.  Additionally, the top three stories provide professional office space.

The project was delivered on a fast-track schedule.  Separate structural packages were issued for the foundations, the structural steel connector, the parking garage and the shell structure.  This allowed the contractor to proceed with construction of the concrete and steel frame prior to completion of the final construction documents.  Foundation installation began in December 2002 and the concrete frame was completed in February 2004.  The opening of the building in October 2004 was less than two years after construction began.

Location: Birmingham, Alabama
Completed: 2004
Cost: $140 million

This facility covers an entire city block at The University of Alabama at Birmingham.  Included in this medical facility are medical offices, surgical facilities, pediatric care, regional and newborn intensive care units, a continuing care nursery and special care nurseries and a radiation/oncology center with four linear accelerator vaults.  The new Women and Infants Hospital will not only support the patient but will also provide support for the entire family.  There are family dens with computers and internet access, laundry areas and glassed-in play areas.

The project is one of the first buildings designed in Alabama using the IBC essential facility criteria for seismic and wind load design. The project was delivered using the bridging documents from which the design-build teams bid.  Once the bid was awarded, the design-build team finished the documents while construction of the foundation was underway.  LBYD served as the executive structural engineer in preparing the documents as well as the structural engineer of record on the design-build team.