From the Ground Up: Cox South patient tower

Owner/developer: CoxHealth
General contractors: The Beck Group (Dallas) and Killian Construction Co.
Architect: The Beck Group
Engineers: CJW Transportation Consultants LLC, civil; Armstrong Douglass Partners LLC (Dallas), structural; and CCRD Partners (Houston, Texas), mechanical, electrical and plumbing
Size: 343,000 square feet  
Estimated cost: $130 million
Lender: None
Estimated completion date: May 2015
Project description: The 10-story patient tower includes 28 private rooms in a neonatal intensive care unit on the ground floor and 32 private postpartum nursing and support spaces on the second floor, said CoxHealth spokeswoman Michelle Leroux. She said floors three through five will be shelled for future expansion, with the sixth floor mechanical space serving the new tower and connecting to the mechanical equipment in the existing building. The upper floors are dedicated to inpatient and outpatient neurological services, as well as rehabilitation space. The project is funded by $200 million in bonds CoxHealth issued in April 2013.

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