Project Title: Banner Del E. Webb Medical Center Patient Care Tower
Project Location: Sun City West, Arizona
Type of Construction: New Patient Care Tower Addition
Size: 205,000 square feet
Cost: $86 million project cost/$57.4 million construction cost
About the Project:
Expansion and renovation of Banner Del E. Webb Medical Center improved patient outcomes, satisfaction, and safety. Many factors made this RTKL-designed new Patient Care Tower a success—including the use of Building Information Modeling (BIM).
Today's healthcare providers are rightly looking to AEC consultants to improve their facilities through BIM. An early adopter of BIM, RTKL has been advancing BIM practices including multi-disciplinary integration, as officially recognized by Autodesk RevitŪ. This 3D/database software platform, preferred by the A/E community, also is used by leading construction firms to increase client value.
One such firm, DPR Construction, Inc., used Revit on the Banner Medical Center expansion. Having more precise information, off-site fabrication was increased. This not only reduced construction costs, it improved jobsite safety and facilitated the schedule. As well, “virtual mock-ups” where generated of critical spaces for which full-scale, constructed mock-ups were not financially feasible.
As AEC consultants employ BIM to create 3D walk-throughs, better analyze alternatives, and more accurately predict costs, BIM's return on investment continues to grow. Per Autodesk, projects using Revit reduced RFIs by 74%, construction clashes by 37%, and change orders by 31%. To improve the quality of your next project, consult RTKL—your healthcare design and technologies expert making facilities “better by design.”
About the Architect:
A History of Growth
RTKL was founded in 1946 and entered the healthcare and health science market in 1962. Since that time, the firm has successfully guided the development of more than $10 billion of new and renovated healthcare and health science projects. Among these projects are several of the world's foremost medical and research institutions.
More than 850 employees in offices in the United States, Europe, and Asia provide services for projects around the world. This global presence has placed RTKL sixth in architecture worldwide, according to World Architecture's specialist rankings. The firm's team of 250 committed health A/E professionals is complemented by other sector-focused groups serving the hospitality, residential, entertainment, retail, corporate, and government industries.
Extensive Expertise and Services
RTKL's health sector professionals understand the issues that impact health institutions worldwide. Advances in medicine and medical technology, rising costs of facilities and of care, patient satisfaction, and staff retention are all issues that careful planning and innovative design can address.
But what truly sets RTKL apart is that we also understand the business of healthcare – market dynamics, resource management, operations, technology, and facilities. We have helped guide the development of more than 250 healthcare organizations with our Strategic Facilities Planning expertise.
Your facility can be the beneficiary of RTKL's expertise. You can choose from a full scope of A/E services including health-focused strategic facilities planning, master planning, architectural design, interior design, landscape design, and medical technology consulting.
When you need innovative solutions to complex challenges, you need an architecture firm consistently recognized for excellence and innovation. RTKL is that kind of firm.
