JOPLIN, MO—On May 22, 2011, one of the the deadliest tornadoes in US history descended on the Missouri town of Joplin and demolished St. John's Mercy Regional Medical Center. As reported in GlobeSt.com, McCarthy Building Companies, Inc. was then hired to replace it with the $335 million, 875,000-square-foot Mercy Hospital Joplin. And this week, less than two years after breaking ground, St. Louis-based McCarthy celebrated the completion of the building's enclosure.
“This milestone is on track with the team's aggressive schedule and will set the pace for the rest of the project,” says McCarthy Project Director Ryan Felton. The hospital's exterior is now substantially dried-in and will soon no longer need temporary protection to avoid water from entering the building enclosure.
In January 2012, McCarthy broke ground on the hospital, which will be larger than its predecessor, and include facilities for surgery, critical care, obstetrics, behavioral health and rehab. The building will also include a seven-story patient tower and a four-story clinic tower rising above three floors of hospital space.
McCarthy has also substantially completed offside roadwork and a separate 30,000-square-foot central utility plant connected to the main structure by a 450-foot underground tunnel. The central energy plant will be in commission during the first quarter of 2014.
The project team included the architectural firms of Archimages, HKS and Heideman & Associates as the MEP Engineer.
“The hard work and dedication put into this project by Mercy, HKS Architects, McCarthy, and over 750 tradesmen, has kept us on our 39-month construction schedule, which is planned to finish in March of 2015,” adds Felton.
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Brian J. Rogal
Brian J. Rogal is a Chicago-based freelance writer with years of experience as an investigative reporter and editor, most notably at The Chicago Reporter, where he concentrated on housing issues. He also has written extensively on alternative energy and the payments card industry for national trade publications.
