Thornton Tomasetti, the international engineering firm, announces that the Genzyme Corporation Biologics Support Center in Framingham, Mass., has received LEED Gold Certification.

Four New York City projects by Thornton Tomasetti, the international engineering firm with practices in building structure, building skin and building performance, were selected as among the city’s top 12 projects honored by the Greater New York Construction User Council (GNYCUC) at its 2010 Chairman’s reception on June 15 on the Green Roof at 250 Hudson Street in Manhattan.

Several engineers at Thornton Tomasetti, the international engineering firm with practices in building structure, building skin and building performance, are featured speakers at the 2010 North American Steel Construction Conference (NASCC).

Thornton Tomasetti, the international engineering firm with practices in building structure, building skin and building performance, was the structural engineer for three New York-based projects receiving top honors from New York Construction magazine.

This fully integrated Building Team opted for a multi-prime contracting strategy to keep construction going on Chicago’s Rush University Medical Center, despite the economic meltdown.

Rush University Medical Center opened its new facility Friday morning on the Near West Side.

Washington Hospital Healthcare System said Friday it’s wrapped up work on a new central utility plant, part of a estimated $300 million expansion and seismic upgrade project outlined in late 2004.

In what must be record time, the University of Pennsylvania Health System and the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine (collectively known as Penn Medicine) have recently completed the second phase of the Perelman Center for Advanced Medicine.

The design and construction of expanded facilities for the Children’s Hospital of Illinois and OSF Saint Francis Medical Center, Peoria, was such a significant development at the hospital that it was known as the Milestone project.

Revised state seismic regulations prompted the construction of a technologically advanced replacement facility at El Camino Hospital, Mountain View, Calif., which is designed to support patients and families, create operational efficiencies and adapt to future needs

A beautifully daylit infill addition between a hospital and an office building harvests precious space for diagnostics, treatment, and surgery.

Silicon Valley has a new and improved hospital. The media got a preview of El Camino Hospital in Mountain View on Tuesday. Seismically speaking, it is one of the safest hospitals in Northern California. It is also billed as a “smart” hospital.

Blythedale Children’s Hospital began a new chapter in its 118-year history as hospital executives and trustees joined with government officials and invited guests on June 19 for the groundbreaking of a $63.5 million modernization project.

New York City-based Thornton Tomasetti won the American Council of Engineering Companies of New York Platinum Award in the structural systems category for the firm’s work on The Ruth and Raymond Perelman Center for Advanced Medicine in Philadelphia.

If there is one staple in health-care design, it is that program takes priority. The functionality of the building to serve its doctors and patients is the primary design goal. This idea is resonant in the structural design for the Johns Hopkins Hospital New Clinical Building.

Contractors consider the health-care market a valued component of their portfolios because it often remains strong while other segments of the economy falter.

September 25 will mark a new era in hospital building and design as Rush University Medical Center celebrates the groundbreaking for its new hospital designed “from the inside out.”

Despite strong community opposition, the Sacramento City Council gave Mercy General Hospital the green light to build a new cardiac center in what is now a residential area.

Though Sacramento’s economy, like practically all other California cities’, will not rebound sufficiently this year to offset the housing construction decline, economists and planners in the city expect a flat year of growth and modest growth in some construction segments.

Two major healthcare projects are underway and soon to be underway that will mean, of course, construction jobs.

Thornton Tomasetti has recently completed the structural engineering of a $151-million expansion and renovation of the Walnut Hill campus at Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas. This major expansion includes a 512,000-square-foot inpatient bed tower, which will create specialized units for central sterile radiology, respiratory therapy, cardiopulmonary, and laboratory. The expansion also includes the design of a new 397,000-square-foot parking structure to accommodate the demands of the new facility.

Thornton Tomasetti has recently completed the structural engineering of a $151-million expansion and renovation of the Walnut Hill campus at Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas.

Seven years ago, officials at Chicago’s Northwestern Memorial Hospital took a hard look at Prentice Women’s Hospital, knowing full well that, after 25 years of service, their Gold Coast jewel was delivering many more births than it could handle. It became clear that it was time for a new, grander women’s hospital, one with updated technology and advanced clinical services, to keep up with the competition in the hotly contested Chicago women’s health market.

Can the design of a building enhance patient care and promote healing? That was a key goal in the development of the new Prentice Women’s Hospital soon to open on the Northwestern Memorial campus in Chicago.

Kaiser Permanente breaks ground today on a new cancer center that the HMO expects to attract about 100 patients a day for radiation treatment.

In many respects, the newly expanded Lucas Center is a building of opposites.

NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital broke ground yesterday on a cardiac center that hospital officials said would greatly expand its research capabilities and contribute to battling cardiovascular diseases

The biggest project under way is the new Alex G. Spanos Heart Center, part of a $150 million expansion of Mercy General’s cardiac services.