Guth DeConzo, an Engineering and Construction Management Firm with offices in New York City, Troy, NY, Lake Success, NY and Stony Brook, NY, has been awarded a contract for Construction Management Services on the NYC Health + Hospitals Corporation Elmhurst Hospital Capital Improvement Project. This $140M project includes 20 “subprojects” ranging in size from $1M up to $65M with the largest being an expansion of the Emergency Department. Other projects include renovations to Neuro ICU, Labor & Delivery, the Ambulatory Surgery Center as well as construction of a new PICU/NICU.
“Day in and day out our Construction Management Group has taken on the most difficult projects and delivered them safely and successfully in some of the most challenging working conditions within the industry,” said Jeremy McDonald, Principal of Guth DeConzo. “Our Team of professionals excel working within NYC HHC facilities and are committed to the success of these projects.”
As Construction Manager, Guth DeConzo will provide comprehensive CM services for multiple capital projects from project initiation, design award, design completion, procurement and construction of the various capital projects from 2023 through the completion of all projects identified. Guth DeConzo will work collaboratively with the Hospital’s Capital Team to ensure the projects are delivered in a timely manner, within budget with minimal disruption to the facility. Working closely with hospital stakeholders, designers and OFD, Guth DeConzo will provide expertise in coordinating and managing the multiple capital projects and determining the appropriate order of projects should there be potential operational conflict with the scale of ongoing capital work.
Elmhurst Hospital, located in the heart of the NYC borough of Queens, serves a very diverse population of more than 1 million. The Hospital is a 545 bed, fully accredited facility, which is also a Level 1 trauma center with more than 660,000 ambulatory patient visits, just under 2,000 live births and over 170,000 emergency visits annually. The hospital is not only the sole Hospital serving as the primary healthcare facility for the residents of Elmhurst and the surrounding communities, it is the only public facility. As the communities have grown in size, so has the need for the services provided by the Hospital. Elmhurst, being the epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic in the US, highlighted the importance of this institution not just to the community at large but especially important to the residents that do not have other means of obtaining quality healthcare.
Overall project completion is projected for December, 2027.