Tucson Medical Center Healthcare Rincon Campus Ambulatory Surgery Center Breaks Ground| Kraus-Anderson
A new state-of-the-art Ambulatory Surgery Center is under construction at TMC HealthCare’s Rincon campus in Tucson, Arizona. TMC HealthCare and MedCraft Healthcare Real Estate are partnering in the expansion of the Rincon campus ambulatory facilities. Together, TMC and MedCraft selected KA as the contractor for the Rincon Surgery Center project.
See a Bird’s Eye View of the Project
The one story, 17,000 SF Ambulatory Surgery Center (ASC) will provide additional medical and surgical services, offering a convenient and affordable option for scheduled surgeries and procedures. The building is designed to include a future 3,000 SF expansion for future growth.
Stakeholders Spanning the Map
Project stakeholders cover a wide span of the map, with a Minnesota-based developer and construction manager, Phoenix-based architect Orcutt|Winslow, and the Tucson-based healthcare system owner, on-site project supervision and local subcontractors. A remotely-accessed jobsite camera and regularly scheduled zoom coordination meetings are being employed to communicate job progress.
Construction Care for Nearby Residents
Careful consideration is being provided in respect to the project’s location within The Pavilions at Civano neighborhood. The building has been designed to tie-in the Civano community’s distinctive architecture, including the use of landscaping that reflects the surrounding Sonorian Desert, and pedestrian connectivity with sidewalks, patios, plazas and bicycle paths with bike racks. During construction, KA’s project management and onsite supervision includes careful measures to control for dust and disruption in proximity to the existing campus, nearby residences and environmental considerations. “Fugitive dust permits” are required by all trades involved with exterior work, requiring the continuous application of water in the areas being worked. Heavy earthwork activities are also being avoided on windy days.
Project scheduling and approach is also giving respect to the region’s desert climate and soil conditions. “There is no lost time due to temperatures, there is however a adjustment in starting hours,” said KA Project Superintendent Allen Zaffke. “We anticipate regular starting hours at 5:00 a.m. to beat the heat and concrete pours to begin as early as 4:00 a.m.
“Soil conditions here are extremely hard. You cannot put a shovel into it,” Zaffke adds. “This is why the Pima Air & Space museum and cold storage is here. Aircraft are parked on the bare soil with zero settlement,” he said.
Consideration is also being paid to some of the other protected residents: cacti.
“We’ve recently preserved and relocated a number of mature plants on the site to a temporary nursey by the site trailer,” said KA Project Manager Rachael Oelke. Al’s “garden” on site includes Saguaro and fishhook barrel cacti that have been relocated for safety during construction.”
Other sustainable features in the ASC building include roof-top solar panels, low and no water use landscaping, a cool roof system to reduce heat island affects, trees to shade building and glass, and the use of reclaimed water for irrigation. Additional enhancements will maximize air changes throughout the building and maintain high filtration rates.
Construction is expected to be completed in the spring of 2022.
MedCraft last year acquired a 44,000-square-foot, two-story medical office building on TMC HealthCare’s Rincon campus and has added new medical groups to establish full-time offices to better serve the local community. The expanded campus further integrates primary and specialty care, including cardiology, family medicine, imaging, lab, orthopedics, rehabilitation and urgent care.
Kraus-Anderson has been a long-standing construction partner of MedCraft since 1999. Together, they have built dozens of hospitals, medical office buildings and specialty clinics around the U.S., including over 800,000 SF of Minnesota healthcare facilities.
About TMC Healthcare
TMC HealthCare is Southern Arizona’s leading provider for emergency care and pediatric care as well as specialty areas including women’s, maternity, cardiac care, orthopedic, neuroscience, hospice, surgical, vascular, geropsychiatric care and senior services.
About MedCraft Healthcare Real Estate, LLC
MedCraft Healthcare Real Estate is a national leader in the development, financing, and management of ambulatory care and medical office buildings. MedCraft focuses solely on healthcare real estate projects and has partnered with healthcare systems and physicians in more than 86 projects totaling $3.5 billion throughout their 38-year operating history. Visit www.MedCraft.com.
About Kraus-Anderson
Established in 1897, Kraus-Anderson (www.krausanderson.com) is an integrated construction management and real estate development enterprise working independently and in collaboration with a family of companies, including insurance, financial and commercial property management and leasing operations. Kraus-Anderson, an EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability employer, is headquartered in Minneapolis, Minn. and has regional offices in Madison, Wis., Bismarck, N.D., and Duluth, Bemidji and Rochester, Minn.
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