LeChase managed construction and performed foundation and concrete work for a new surge tent adjacent to the emergency department at UR Medicine Strong Memorial Hospital. A pre-engineered structure, the fully insulated 40-foot by 80-foot tent provides 28 patient bays and support spaces for staff.
UR Medicine started to look at expansion space for its emergency department in April, anticipating the impacts of COVID. LeChase engaged in May, working with Dwyer Architectural under a design-build contract. Construction began in mid-August. Crews spent four weeks on sitework and foundation, followed by four weeks of erecting and fitting out the structure. The facility was complete by mid-October.
Photo Credit: Dwyer Architectural
“It was definitely an atypical project from unique aspects of the tent structure itself – which a lot of our workers had never seen before – to working in the parking lot of an active emergency department,” said Steve Corletta, LeChase project executive. “Completing the project in such a critical area of the hospital really proved the power of teamwork.”
Click here for a video from Dwyer Architectural. In it, Steve, UR Director of Medical Center Facilities Mark Schwartz and Dwyer Architectural Associate Kristin Merle discuss the project.
Congratulations to everyone involved with the surge tent, including Steve and LeChase Rochester team members Dan Kramell, Dan Schleher, Ryan Morse, Jeff Begy, Turk Giehl, Kim Hall and Peter Muench.
