Southland Industries Awarded Army Medical Center Project

Southland Industries, as part of the Balfour Beatty / McCarthy Joint Venture Team, was awarded the contract to design and build the HVAC and Plumbing Systems for the new Carl R. Darnall Army Medical Center [CRDAMC] at Ft. Hood in Texas. The project consists of a new 947,000 s.f. world class medical center, a remote central utility plant, an ambulatory garage and parking structures. The facility is a complete replacement of the existing hospital and will contain patient care services such as women’s health, orthopedics and rehabilitation, behavioral health, a surgical suite, inpatient care, ambulatory and outpatient clinics, imaging and diagnostics, and an emergency department.

Southland Industries assembled an internal team consisting of engineers, estimators, project managers and construction supervisors from multiple divisions to pursue this project. Southland’s combined design and construction experience on large, complex, healthcare and projects for the Army Corp of Engineers will ensure that the Darnall Army Medical Center will be equipped with state of the art mechanical systems. In addition to our long standing relationship with construction partner Balfour Beatty Construction and McCarthy Building Companies, Southland will once again be joined with leading healthcare architects, HKS and Wingler & Sharp as well as electrical design-build experts M.C. Dean.

Design for this LEED project will start immediately and will continue over the next year. Construction will begin next year and completion is slated for May 2014. This project was a major win for both Southland and our project team, and provides yet another significant opportunity to demonstrate the major benefits of a true design-build project.