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Construction of Penn Medicine's $1.5B Pavilion nearing completion

https://www.bizjournals.com/philadel...-pavilion.html

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Penn Medicine broke ground on the Pavilion in 2016 and it is on track to open to patients Oct. 30. The original occupancy date had been set for early June but was delayed because of the temporary shift to completing beds for coronavirus patients. The project is also on budget and has experienced virtually no supply chain issues or unexpected material costs.

“We have been lucky,” said Greulich, who has overseen the project for the last seven years from when it was just being planned by the health system. “We made decisions early in buying steel and aluminum and we are past those issues when it deals with supply chain.”

While the project, the largest undertaking by Penn, is nearly done, there’s still work that remains over the next several months. Each day, about 700 construction workers are on the job site. About 75% of the interior of the building is complete and there’s site work such as cleaning up the sidewalks, paving and landscaping that still needs to be done.

The process of bringing in and installing all of the building’s furniture and equipment is also scheduled for the next few months. The building will have 504 private patient rooms and 47 operating rooms.

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Originally Posted by TonyTone (Post 9209788)

Wow thats a whole extra floor, interesting. That was probably a approved design change right?

They didn't mess up and add an extra floor did that :D:haha:

No that's an additional floor added later to the building.

Construction is expected to finish in September and it will be patient ready on Oct. 30th

Is this complete yet?

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Originally Posted by summersm343 (Post 9359005)

Is this complete yet?

IIRC they’re still doing some work at ground level. The tower portion was expedited because of COVID. It was used as extra bedding in the beginning when hospitalizations surged.

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Originally Posted by summersm343 (Post 9359005)

Is this complete yet?

No, there was an insider email that construction will wrap up at the end of next month and then be patient ready on October 30th

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Originally Posted by summersm343 (Post 9359005)

Is this complete yet?

Is it ready for renovation yet? Hospitals seem to always be changing something around.
In the photo this actually smallish next to the Frankenbuilding.

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Originally Posted by mcgrath618 (Post 9359012)

IIRC they’re still doing some work at ground level. The tower portion was expedited because of COVID. It was used as extra bedding in the beginning when hospitalizations surged.

Yeah they're doing some hardscaping. You can see it easily out of the Ravdin building but it didn't feel appropriate to take photos from occupied patient rooms :haha:

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Originally Posted by Kevets (Post 9359641)

Yeah they're doing some hardscaping. You can see it easily out of the Ravdin building but it didn't feel appropriate to take photos from occupied patient rooms :haha:

I just hope that the hardscaping pushes up Penn's ranking in the US News Best Hospitals Honor Roll. :P

America's Best Hospitals: the 2021-22 Honor Roll and Overview

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Originally Posted by Philly Fan (Post 9359648)

I just hope that the hardscaping pushes up Penn's ranking in the US News Best Hospitals Honor Roll. :P

America's Best Hospitals: the 2021-22 Honor Roll and Overview

Ooo. They gotta be pissed about that rank.

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Originally Posted by Redddog (Post 9360312)

Ooo. They gotta be pissed about that rank.

I think it's actually an improvement by two spots from last year, so they're probably not that mad. ;)

https://almanac.upenn.edu/articles/h...als-honor-roll

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Originally Posted by summersm343 (Post 9370220)

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Wrong thread, Summers.

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Originally Posted by mcgrath618 (Post 9370224)

Wrong thread, Summers.

Ha! Thanks for catching that.

Not the best pic but my friend was driving on 76 and saw that they have some colored perimeter light details on the upper portion of the building:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/193729...posted-public/

https://i.ibb.co/NSrBJY5/IMG-20210820-000107-60.jpg

I didn't know it was going to have decorative lighting like this!

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