Skanska Closner Selected as Contractor for Marquette Hospital

Posted by Lake Superior Community Partnership on March 24, 2015

Plans to develop $300 million hospital campus move forward

Marquette, Mich. (March 24, 2015) – UP Health System – Marquette today announced that Skanska Closner has been selected as the general contractor for the construction of the new hospital campus.

With the selection of the contractor, UP Health System – Marquette is now ready to move forward with the construction of a new, state-of-the-art, 265-bed hospital and 80,000-square foot medical office building.  The new hospital campus will be located at the former Roundhouse/MSC property located near the US-41 corridor and Baraga Avenue adjacent to downtown Marquette.

Skanska Closner is a joint venture partnership with strong ties to the Marquette community.  Skanska USA is one of the largest construction and development companies and one of the top healthcare builders in the U.S.  Skanska constructed two hospital facilities in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan: Mackinac Straits Health System in St. Ignace and Baraga County Memorial Hospital in L’Anse.  Closner Construction, a local contractor based in Marquette, provides construction services throughout the Upper Peninsula, including previous expansion and renovation projects for UP Health System – Marquette.

The Skanska Closner team is made up of experienced project management and field supervision staff with the expertise to meet the requirements of this important project, including those related to the brownfield designation of the construction site.

Duke LifePoint Healthcare, which owns and operates UP Health System – Marquette, is investing more than $300 million in the project.

“We were gratified by the level of interest by area contractors bidding on the new hospital construction project, and we want to thank the Marquette business community and the City Commissioners for their support of the project,” said Tom Butler, Eastern Group chief financial officer for LifePoint Hospitals, the managing partner of Duke LifePoint Healthcare.

Skanska Closner will work in collaboration with Gresham, Smith and Partners (GS&P), the architect for the new facilities.  Groundbreaking on the project is planned for spring 2016, and construction of the campus is expected to be completed in early 2018.

“We are excited about the opportunity to work with Skanska Closner to build a new hospital and medical office building that will provide a modern, state-of-the-art environment for patients and their families, physicians and employees and allow us to deliver high quality healthcare in the most efficient and effective manner,” said Judy Watson-Olson, Chair of UP Health System –Marquette Board of Trustees.

UP Health System – Marquette will continue to occupy its current facilities at the College Avenue location until the new hospital is constructed and operational.  Hospital leaders will continue to work closely with the city officials and the community to explore future uses of its current property and facilities once the hospital campus is relocated.

 

About UP Health System – Marquette
Part of Duke LifePoint Healthcare, UP Health System – Marquette is a federally designated Regional Referral Center and a member of Superior Health Partners. We are the regional medical center for Michigan’s Upper Peninsula and beyond.  Our hospital is the region’s Level II Trauma Center and a Thomson Reuters’ Top 50 Cardiovascular Hospital. UP Health System – Marquette receives patients from throughout Upper Michigan and provides care in 65 specialties and subspecialties. Our medical staff of more than 200 doctors works as a team with our 2,400 employees in caring for approximately 12,000 inpatients and more than 350,000 outpatients a year. UP Health System – Marquette also services many of the communities in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, with 42 primary and specialty care clinics spread throughout the region.  For additional information, visit www.mgh.org

About Skanska Closner

Skanska USA is one of the largest, most financially sound construction and development companies in the U.S., serving a broad range of clients including those in transportation, power, industrial, water/wastewater, healthcare, education, sports, data centers, government, aviation and commercial.  Headquartered in New York with offices in 33 metro areas, we have more than 10,000 employees committed to being leaders in safety, project execution, sustainability, ethics and people development. In 2014, our work in building construction, civil and power/industrial construction, commercial development and infrastructure development (public-private partnerships) generated $7.3 billion in revenue.  Global revenue of parent company Skanska AB, headquartered in Stockholm and listed on the Stockholm Stock Exchange, totaled $21 billion in 2014. Skanska shares are publicly traded in the U.S. on the OTC market under the symbol SKBSY through a Level I American Depository Receipt program.

Closner Construction & Sales, Inc. was organized in the mid-1960’s and in early years, construction crews were hired on a per-job basis to keep the company small and the jobs select. Today, Closner employs over 40 full-time employees focused on safety, quality and workmanship.  With project expertise in the healthcare, commercial, educational, industrial, institutional and custom renovation sectors, Closner delivers high quality construction services throughout Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.

Source: UP Health System