At Parkview Wabash Hospital the past month has been a busy one. Despite a rainy start in December, followed by the holidays a couple weeks later, the mild weather has made it possible to stay right on target with Parkview Wabash Hospital’s schedule for the construction of the replacement facility.
The hospital reports the elevator pit concrete has been poured and the shaft masonry walls and the under slab plumbing completed. The three block columns you see are the three elevator shafts. The wiring has now begun.
A safety fence has been installed on both sides of construction in addition to the road leading to the hospital and the parking lots have had the base asphalt coarse laid. The block walls you see are the maintenance area of the hospital.
Permanent construction trailers have been installed on the north side of the property – in front of the hospital and nearer to Hwy 24. They will begin using them once electrical is run to them. This should occur in the next two weeks.
Steel is going up north of the block walls, in the kitchen and dining area. Steel has begun moving to the west into what will be surgery, then radiology and finally the emergency department. With the concrete foundations complete and the beginning of the erection of the steel frame, the Iron Workers should finish their part of the project the last week of February.
Construction crews will begin moving to the 2nd floor where you will see the crane move to the front of the hospital. The three block columns you see are the elevator shafts. The block column currently under construction (encased in plastic so the space can be heated) is one of the stairwells from the second floor.
Completion of the structural steel will be celebrated with a formal beam signing and a Topping Out Ceremony targeted for March 1st.