CATEGORY C 23 ARCHITECT Payette OWNER/CLIENT Penn State Health PHOTOGRAPHS/ILLUSTRATIONS Warren Jagger Photography & Robert Benson Photography MEP ENGINEER Bard, Rao + Athanas Consulting Engineers CIVIL ENGINEER Gannett Fleming STRUCTURAL ENGINEER Gannett Fleming GENERAL CONTRACTOR Whiting Turner Contracting Co. ACOUSTIC CONSULTANT Cavanaugh Tocci Associates WIND CONSULTANT RWDI CONSTRUCTION COST OR ANTICIPATED CONSTRUCTION COST $90 million BUILDING AREA OR ANTICIPATED BUILDING AREA 147,560 GSF CONSTRUCTION START DATE April 2018 SUBSTANTIAL PROJECT COMPLETION 2021 Description This project is the final piece of Penn State Children's Hospital's Clinical Quadrangle Master Plan, which charted the medical center's largest expansion since its original construction in the early 1960s by adding more than 500,000 square feet of new construction. The vertical expansion crowns the hospital with three new floors that bolster its ability to provide pediatric inpatient care, completing a strategy envisioned by the team during the design and construction of the hospital in 2012. An overarching goal was to create an integrated facility by consolidating related programs that were previously dispersed throughout the campus. The expansion has collocated the labor and delivery section of Penn State's women's health program with its well-baby nursery and the neonatal intensive care unit. Centralizing these critical areas of care has allowed the medical center to improve and expand services for new mothers and babies, including critically ill infants. Jury comment " It's remarkable that the team was able to accomplish this project in an accelerated time frame with no excessive costs. "