Drawing on our extensive expertise in healthcare construction, AECOM Tishman is currently serving as construction manager for the Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Tower at the Hospital for Special Surgery, a pre-eminent facility for musculoskeletal health and orthopedics located on the Upper East Side.
This 12-story building will straddle one of Manhattan’s busiest roadways – the FDR Drive – and add patient rooms, ORs, offices and research facilities, as part of HSS’s campus modernization. Designed by EwingCole, the 86,000-square-foot building will rise above piles located on the esplanade and west of the FDR. This structurally and logistically complex project requires extensive coordination with engineers and other contractors. The structural framing system is designed for off-site modular construction due to the tight work area and crane pick limitations, as well as to minimize disruption to the FDR; the construction plan involves barging prefabricated modules up the East River, then lifting them into place above the FDR.