Scheduled to open in spring 2011, the $523 million facility will total 1.1 million gross square feet. Of that, 855,000 square feet will be devoted to inpatient space and 245,000 square feet will be used for clinics and offices; those numbers include about 180,000 square feet of space for future growth and expansion.

The new children’s and women’s hospital will include a 9-story tower for clinic space, and a 12-story tower devoted to inpatient care that will bridge inpatient and outpatient services within the same medical disciplines to create a programmatic approach to patient care on each floor.

The architectural firm of HKS Architects is retained to design the building project while Barton Malow Company is the onsite construction manager.

The Glazed Aluminum Wall Systems package for the building facade consists over 200,000 square feet of unitized curtain wall utilizing the Fulton Fulwall 4 system in addition to another 30,000 of “stand alone” composite metal panel and column covers. The curtain wall will include glass products by Guardian Industries and glazed-in composite metal panels with “bullnose” profiles. All entrance / vestibule work is included complete with aluminum swing doors and automatic sliding entrance doors.