Grand Junction, Colorado — St. Mary's Hospital and Regional Medical Center has selected the team of FCI/McCarthy as the construction manager/general contractor for the Hospital's Century Project. FCI/McCarthy is a joint venture of Grand Junction-based FCI Constructors and McCarthy Building Companies, a national healthcare builder. The joint venture of FCI/McCarthy brings together FCI’s local experience as a leading provider of construction services in Colorado with McCarthy’s depth of experience demonstrated by having completed over 600 major healthcare projects nationwide.
In announcing the selection, St. Mary's CEO Robert Ladenburger noted that, "St. Mary's must continually grow and adapt to ensure that we can meet our mission of improving the health of the individuals and communities we serve. We are very pleased that we will be able to team with local businesses on this project, building on our century-old tradition of full partnership with our community."
The Century Project provides for the construction of a new Patient Tower and for the reconfiguration and remodeling of existing hospital space. The Patient Tower will be a multi-story building constructed adjacent to the existing hospital building. Total construction cost for the Century Project will be about $148 million.
Rob Jenkins, owner's representative for St. Mary's, said, "At each step in the process of assembling our team, we have looked for organizations with outstanding records of performance on healthcare and hospital projects. With this joint venture of FCI/McCarthy, we get both the extensive, large-scale healthcare experience of McCarthy and the unique regional knowledge and experience of FCI."
The selection of the contractor now enables the full project team to finalize the design work and prepare construction documents in anticipation of beginning the Patient Tower construction in January 2007.
About FCI/McCarthy
Both FCI Constructors, based in Grand Junction, and McCarthy Building Companies are 100 percent employee-owned and share similar client service philosophies, core company values and operating practices. The marriage of FCI Constructors and McCarthy as construction manager/general contractor on the Century Project blends strong local presence and knowledge of St. Mary's with the deep healthcare construction management resources and expertise of a national hospital builder.
Founded in 1978, FCI Constructors is an Engineering News Record Top 400 Contractor and one of the leading providers of construction services in Colorado and the Southwestern United States. The company has recently completed several important projects for St. Mary's Hospital including the new parking garage and the telemetry department remodel. In addition to FCI's main office in Grand Junction, the company maintains offices in Denver, Durango, and Phoenix, Arizona.
Founded in 1864, McCarthy is one of the oldest privately held construction firms in the nation. In addition to the Century Project at St. Mary's, McCarthy, in a separate joint venture, is constructing The Children's Hospital in Denver ― one of the largest children's hospitals in the country. The $550 million (total project cost), 1.3 million square foot project is scheduled for completion in the summer of 2007.
In the last 30 years, McCarthy has completed more than 600 major healthcare projects nationwide, providing construction management, design/build and general contracting services. McCarthy has been consistently ranked as one of the top five healthcare builders by both Engineering News-Record and Modern Healthcare for more than 25 years. With national headquarters in St. Louis, McCarthy has additional offices in Phoenix, Las Vegas, Atlanta, Dallas, Newport Beach, San Francisco, and Sacramento.