Hospital Project Follows Infection Control Standards
The Onslow County Hospital Authority is still years away from beginning construction of a 24,000-square-foot emergency department, a 26,000-square-foot surgical suite as well as new space for central sterile supply and endoscopy that will be located behind the existing hospital on Memorial Drive.
The board needs to hire a construction manager soon to keep the process moving forward. Bruce Arneill and David Neal of SLAM Collaborative, the hospital’s architectural firm, John Worrell, the Hospital Authority’s director facility services; and Herb Stanford of Stanford White Engineering serve on the committee that looked at construction manager applicants.
The committee looked for companies that had experience working with Housing and Urban Development in North Carolina and with health-care facility construction. Danny Waller, senior vice president of support services said that, the authority received information from 26 groups interested in the construction manager position and narrowed the list to 11 after requesting qualifications.
A committee interviewed five candidates for the position this week and a recommendation was made to the authority that it considered hiring Bovis Lend Lease Inc. of Charlotte to do the job.
At its meeting on Thursday, the Hospital Authorities didn’t want to finalize the decision about the construction manager. The group wants Bovis Lend Lease and Rogers Building Inc. of Charlotte to give presentations at the authority’s building and planning committee and finance committee meetings next month, who will then make a recommendation to the full authority.
The construction manager won’t just be responsible for overseeing the building of the facility. They take the architectural schematics and drawings and do pre-construction estimates as to how much will it cost to build the project. They help with the development of bids and the analysis of bids. They also select subcontractors. They provide a construction superintendent. They make sure the work that is being done follows infection control standards.