Marshall Medical Center

A dramatic increase in demand for services over recent years led Marshall Medical Center to initiate a $60 million expansion project. The new acute care wing would provide much-needed additions to emergency, maternity, intensive care and medical-surgical recovery units. Marshall Medical Center tapped all three of CPM's practice areas to help with this major undertaking.

Right from the start, CPM found ways to solve the project budget impasse. CPM determined that a design-build model would be more efficient than the traditional design-bid-build, and convinced the owner and architect as such.

Among the many services provided, CPM evaluated the preliminary design, led value engineering work group sessions, and prepared a complete project budget and master project schedule. CPM also facilitated communications with state agencies such as the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development (OSHPD) and coordinated the fulfillment of California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requirements. With the planning completed and initial obstacles overcome, construction began in 2008.