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ROBINS & MORTON – HUNTSVILLE HOSPITAL
R&M Improves Healthcare
Robins & Morton gave Huntsville Hospital in Alabama a $54 million facelift. It erected a medical tower, built
bridges over a major thoroughfare, and expanded and renovated the facility’s emergency room.
By Kelly McCabe
W hen northern Alabama’s Huntsville Hospital –
a bustling facility with more than 5,400 hospi-
tal staffers and more than 650 physicians who
practice more than 70 medical specialties – was in need of
extensive renovations and construction, it called on con-
tractor Robins & Morton. Besides many healthcare proj-
ects, the company’s portfolio includes work on educational,
commercial and industrial buildings.
Robins & Morton built an emergency room, renovated the
existing emergency room, constructed a waiting room for the
intensive care unit and built three pedestrian bridges that
connect buildings. The company now is working on complet-
ing a new tower – which is a joint venture between Hunts-
ville Hospital, several local physician groups and Birming-
ham, Ala.-based Inkana Development Project Manager
Mitch Coley says. The tower will be completed in early 2009.
The complete projects have a price tag of about $54 million;
work started in 2006 and was mostly finished in late 2008.
“One of the big issues was just having to work and build
in the old part of the hospital, remodeling it and working
Robins & Morton built a new emergency room, renovated an existing one,
constructed a new intensive care waiting room and more in its Huntsville
Hospital project.
around traffic and patient flow and all that,” Coley explains.
“Getting materials in the building was a challenge, [as was]
keeping dust and debris out of the new part of the hospital.”
Robins & Morton was founded in 1946 and has grown to
be one of the top contractors in the United States. The compa-
ny’s portfolio has more than 800 projects – with more than 80
percent of its business from repeat clients. In addition to
Huntsville, Robins & Morton has offices in Birmingham, Ala.;
Charlotte, N.C.; Dallas; Nashville, Tenn.; and Orlando, Fla.
The work on the hospital’s emergency room was completed
in three phases, Coley says. Phase one consisted of building
approximately 39,000 square feet of emergency department
and intensive care unit waiting room; phase
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two consisted of remodeling 15,000 square Huntsville Hospital
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three consisted of remodeling approximately Site: Huntsville, Ala.
Project cost: $54 million
9,000 square feet of existing emergency Employees on-site: 150 (20
department. Robins & Morton)
Twenty Robins & Morton employees – Scope: Expansion and renovation
Mitch Coley, project manager:
150 including subcontractors – then reno- “A big issue was [working] around
vated 24,000 square feet of the existing traffic and patient flow.”
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