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KIEWIT BUILDING GROUP AND MCCARTHY BUILDING CO.

Kiewit Building Group and
McCarthy Building Co. are
working together on a large
extension of Kaiser Moanalua
Hospital in Honolulu.

‘Explosive Growth Spurt’

The renovated and expanded Kaiser Moanalua Hospital in Honolulu will bring expanded services to the
growing area. Despite challenges, the project is two months ahead of schedule and will be done in 2009.

By Libby John ■ Fourth floor-- Eight operating rooms

K iewit Building Group and McCarthy Building Co., Fifth floor-- 36 patient rooms
■

working as a joint venture, are two months ahead ■ Sixth floor-- 23 maternity rooms, two delivery

of schedule to complete Phase I of a $95 million
extension of Kaiser Moanalua Hospital in Honolulu. The
project is currently in Phase I, which requires installing
166,384 square feet of cast-in-place concrete for a new five-
floor tower next to the existing hospital and new construc-
tion above the existing facility, Kiewit Project
Superintendent John Balko says. The four-year project will
be completed in June 2009.
The first phase is expected to be completed in March,
the company says. The hospital’s new
Kiewit Building Group and
McCarthy Building tower, which will be completed in the
Co./Kaiser Moanalua first phase, will have five floors and hold
Hospital the following features:
Project cost: $95 million
■ Second floor-- Blood bank, conference
Project location: Honolulu
Scope: New tower, renovations rooms, labs and central sterile
John Balko, project superin- ■ Third Floor-- 11 emergency room trau-
tendent: “We are continually
interfacing with operations and ma suites, 23 emergency treatment
procedures.” rooms, a radiology suite and a CT scan
rooms/cesarean suites and nine labor and delivery rooms.
The new tower will hold three elevators. The project also
entails a new boiler plant, which will be built over the
existing plant. The modifications to the utility plant will
hold a 2,000-kilowatt emergency generator, storage and
two new boilers.
The second phase entails interior demolition and renova-
tions to the existing facility, which includes extending the
elevators, renovating the emergency room, operating rooms,
medical and surgery rooms and offices, as well as rehab-
bing the kitchen.
Balko says Kaiser Moanalua, originally built in the early
1980s, will expand its capabilities greatly after the expan-
sion is complete. For example, it will go from four to 11
surgical units, include three new radiological suites and
expand the emergency room three-fold. Kaiser Moanalua is
not the only hospital in the region that is expanding.
“There has been an explosive growth spurt in Honolulu,”

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