Healthcare construction projects in Alaska.

• Author: Slaten, Russ
• Position: SPECIAL SECTION: Healthcare

Private healthcare providers were forecasted to add two hundred jobs in 2015, according to the Alaska Department of Labor and Workforce Development in its January 2015 issue of Alaska Economic Trends. The industry has seen employment growth for more than twenty years, and new construction and renovations of healthcare facilities allows the industry to keep up with that growth.

Alaska Native Health Campus

The Alaska Native Health Campus in Anchorage is seeing many changes with renovations and new facilities within the Alaska Native Medical Center (ANMC) and the surrounding area.

The Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium (ANTHC) Patient Housing facility adjacent to the ANMC on Tudor Centre Drive will provide patient and family accommodations for those traveling to ANMC for medical care. Neeser Construction began the more than $40 million project in March, and substantial completion is expected in November 2016, with occupation in late December 2016. The six-floor patient facility is 112,059 square feet with two hundred rooms. Neeser expects seventy-five workers at peak construction, with a 60 percent Alaska Native crew. KBP Architects designed the project, with structural engineering provided by Reid Middleton, Inc., mechanical engineering from Jernstrom Engineering, electrical engineering from EIC Engineers, and civil engineering from EBSC Engineering. The facility will be connected to ANMC by a sky bridge on the second floor which also connects to a new 440-space parking garage.

PCL Construction Services completed the $16 million ANTHC Parking Garage connected to the patient housing facility in August. KPB Architects designed the 165,070-square-foot, five-floor, 400-stall garage, which began construction in January 2014 and saw forty employees at peak construction.

The $25 million Nuka Wellness and Learning Center on Tudor Centre Drive is expected to be complete in January. Watterson Construction began the 58,866-square-foot, fifty-four-room project for Southcentral Foundation in April 2014, with sixty-five workers at peak construction. The center will house Southcentral Foundations Nuka System of Care, Family Wellness Warriors Initiative, and Research and Development. Spark Design LLC was the architect for the project, Reid Middleton provided structural engineering, and Coffman Engineers provided civil, mechanical, and electrical engineering.

ANMC Renovations

The Cardiology/Neurosurgery Remodel at ANMC began December 2014 and was...