NEA Baptist Memorial Hospital

Jonesboro, Arkansas

The NEA Baptist Memorial Hospital project is a 770,000 square foot integrated healthcare facility. It includes a 550,000 square foot, 181 bed replacement hospital and a 220,000 square foot clinic that will house NEA Baptist Clinic’s medical specialists and surgeons, as well as diagnostic testing services. The clinic building will be connected floor by floor with the inpatient hospital. The project also includes administrative offices and a central energy plant. Construction began in April 2011 and will be completed by summer 2013.

Despite this project’s traditional design-bid-build delivery, HOAR is committed to Building Information Modeling; therefore we funded the creation of a detailed architectural and structural BIM model from the 2-D documents. This “virtual construction practice” generated RFIs much earlier in the process than is typical, reducing waste and potential re-work. One key BIM improvement is defining an above-ceiling zoning scheme that standardizes locations and spacing for overhead systems and their racks and hangars, reducing installation clashes in the field.