E.S. Boulos Co., Inc. (ESB) has been awarded the $27 million electrical construction of MaineGeneral Medical Center's (MGMC) new 600,000 s/f regional hospital.
ESB was awarded the project as part of an Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) team that includes joint venture construction managers HP Cummings Construction Co., Robins & Morton, joint venture architecture and engineering firms SMRT and TRO/Jung Brannen, mechanical contractor MMC Corp. and their local partner Johnson and Jordan.
The $322 million construction project is among the largest healthcare projects currently planned for construction in the U.S. and one of the largest institutional construction projects ever undertaken in Maine. The 36-month project, scheduled to begin in spring 2011, is also one of the largest healthcare projects ESB's history.
The new Kennebec Valley MaineGeneral campus will be home to a 192-bed inpatient surgical and acute care facility. The medical center will also provide outpatient care services and will include a medical office building. In 2007, E.S. Boulos completed MaineGeneral's Alfond Center for Cancer Care, a facility that will be integrated into the new North Augusta campus.
New construction methods are planned for the project, including BIM, LEAN Construction, and Multi-Trade Prefabrication. The project will be managed by ESB's senior project manager Lescar Beane, assistant project manager Rob Coates, project engineer Tom Clements, and superintendent John Fedorovich.
E.S. Boulos has completed a number of capital improvement projects and renovation projects at the MGMC campus in Waterville, and in the late 1990s, ESB completed a major expansion of the medical center's Augusta campus.