Kingwood Medical Center

On an existing 50 acre hospital campus just west of the Eastex Freeway at Kingwood Drive, our team added 47 beds on 3 floors (structured for 5), a central energy plant and a much needed upsized storm conveyance from the north side of the long site to the detention pond on the south boundary.  These improvements were complicated, as they often are, by the need to keep the rest of the campus operational during construction.  This included a walk-in clinic whose entry was adjacent to the new building site.

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