Balfour Beatty signs $533mn US deal.

Balfour Beatty plc has signed a $533mn contract to renovate and expand the Texas Medical Centre campus in Houston, Texas, USA.

The complex project for the Memorial Hermann Healthcare System (MHHS) includes building a 17-storey hospital, implementing a building control system for the entire campus and ensuring all hospital services function fully throughout the four-year construction timeframe, which starts imminently.

The new Hermann Pavilion 2 hospital will provide the Texas Medical Center with 24 additional operating theatres, further emergency rooms and intensive care wards, 160 new patient beds and six floors to further expand both wards and operating facilities.

Connecting all building controls and fire alarm systems onto one platform for the entire campus will improve MHHS’s overall control of systems and deliver significant energy consumption savings.

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