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ED. The end result includes six trauma building to the Huntsville Rehabilitation The first floor is home to an independ-
rooms and 83 private treatment rooms – Hospital – were in the way, so the bridge ent spine and neurological center; on the
with the ability to expand to 100, if needed. had to be replaced. second floor is the hospital’s surgery cen-
A stone-hard flooring system – a resin, To build the 145-foot-long bridge sec- ter; the third houses an independent can-
monolithic product that doesn’t have to be tion over the widened road, state and city cer center, a specialized suite for an inde-
waxed – was then installed in the ward. officials helped Robins & Morton lay out a pendent gastrointestinal practice and a
The flooring is advantageous because it is traffic control plan to detour traffic around portion of the Tennessee Valley Center
very resistant to blood, betadine, and other the project – but only on weekends. “We for Pain Management; the fourth has one
medical solutions and waste, Coley could shut down [the road] at 8 p.m. independent physician suite for neurolo-
explains. The ward also includes a statscan Friday, but had to open [it] no later than 5 gy, a space for Huntsville Hospital’s elec-
room exclusively for the ED, an X-ray room a.m. Monday,” Coley explains. “We had to troencephalography (EEG) and the main
and three CAT scan rooms. work around the clock a few weekends but portion of the pain center.
got the project done in seven weekends.” “The hardest thing about this job site is
Bridge Work Robins & Morton also constructed a that it’s adjacent to the road project and
To connect hospital buildings, Robins & 240-foot-long bridge that connects a right in the middle of the medical district,
Morton built three bridges and a tower tower hub to Governor’s Medical Tower so there’s no laydown,” Coley explains.
hub building, and demolished an existing and an 85-foot-bridge that connects the To ensure safety with such a close prox-
bridge. The bridge work, finished in rehab hospital to the hub. imity – 20 feet – to a major roadway,
November, took nearly a year and cost Robins & Morton placed concrete barriers
$6 million. Governor’s Medical Tower between the road and the scaffolding,
The existing bridge crossed U.S. Route The work on this new four-story office Coley says.
431 – commonly known as Governor’s building with a five-and-a-half story, pre- With a tight working space, there isn’t
Drive – a major Huntsville thoroughfare cast parking deck started in July 2007 and much room for materials storage, so the
that 47,000 drivers travel each day, accord- was mostly finished in late 2008, Coley 60-foot pre-cast concrete T’s for the parking
ing to a city study. When the state of says; the first and second floors already garage were kept in an area a mile away.
Alabama started to widen the road from are completed and opened. The building is When the site was ready, employees on-site
five lanes to seven, the existing supports 120,000 square feet, and the garage has would radio the truck drivers to bring
for the bridge – which connected the main 486 parking spaces. them over. ■