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HEALTHCARE REAL ESTATE, CONSTRUCTION, DESIGN & FACILITY PLANNING

Cover Story: How Arellano Construction Has Grown

Continued from page 1 them. It provides us and the owner with a Working in a live facility, you have to be for our company and deal with both the
istic schedules,” he said. In addition, great benefit.” conscious of noise control considerations, construction issues and the personnel
extensive staging and coordination plans When asked how health care compares dust, infection control, and temporary pro- issues in a hospital.
are developed. “The exhaustive due dili- with other types of construction, Arellano tection between patients and the construc- “First and foremost, we look for the best
gence performed during pre-con allows replied, “It’s actually very different. The tion—all while the facility is receiving vis- of the best in health care construction—
our construction team to hit the ground majority of health care projects are either itors throughout the day.” we have very stringent requirements in
running. Not only do we work through renovations or expansions of existing facil- He went on to say that the most difficult terms of experience in this field. Second,
budgets and schedules, but our team also ities. You see very few new facilities being part of the business is “finding the right we take a very client-friendly approach to
gets to understand the hospital’s opera- built. This introduces a number of condi- personnel. I can say with great pride that it construction management, and our field
tions and figure out how to work around tions that don’t exist in new construction. takes a special type of individual to work personnel need to be able to provide high
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The Emergency Department at Mercy Hosptal Mt Sinai Medical Center Office Building

50 December 2007 hospitalnews.org South Florida Hospital News