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Client: St. John's Mercy
Location: St. Louis, Missouri, United States
Project Type: Healthcare
Contract Amount: $38,500,000 USD
Delivery Method: Construction Management
Project Size: 115,000 sq. ft.
Start Date: January 2001
Completion Date: October 2003
Architect/Engineer: Christner, Inc.
Participating Alberici Enterprises
Services Performed
Markets Served
St. John's Mercy Cancer Center and Parking Garage
This three-level, 115,000-square-foot, structural steel Cancer Center offers complete services including PET scanning and other advanced treatment techniques. Two floors are dedicated to physician office space; the first floor contains patient treatment and procedure rooms.
The exterior facade of the building contains multiple systems, one of which is a precast exterior skin that required very intense coordination and supervision to erect. The Center features a dramatic 3-story atrium lobby surrounded by a sloping concave glass curtainwall. A similar convex sloped glass curtainwall feature is located at the northwest corner of the building. Constructing the atrium wall required erecting a complex radiused structural steel frame so the shape would fit perfectly.
Within the Cancer Center, chemotherapy treatment rooms are designed to provide expansive views to the outside so patients can relax and focus on nature. Two linear accelerators, installed on the first floor of the Cancer Center, required heavy lead in the walls and decks of the rooms housing the equipment. Carefully erected lead ceiling systems supported with unistrut were installed in numerous rooms. This activity required detailed planning and coordination so installation would not interfere with the mechanical systems above the ceilings.
The Cancer Center has its own parking facility. A new 540,000-square-foot, 5-level, precast parking garage provides approximately 1,700 parking spaces for physicians, patients and visitors. Alberici delivered the garage in two phases...the first being under an accelerated time frame during the winter months.
Although weather proved to be a substantial challenge to construction, Alberici was able to meet critical interim deadlines enabling the Center to see its first patients on August 18, 2003.