Clark/McCarthy — In Association With HKS Architects/Wingler & Sharp — Awarded $394 Million Camp Pendleton Hospital

CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. — Naval Facilities Engineering Command (NAVFAC) Southwest awarded Clark/McCarthy a $394 million contract to design and construct a new hospital at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton. With modifications and an option, the value of the contract will increase to $451 million. Included in the team are HKS Architects, executive architect and Wingler & Sharp, associate architect. 

The 500,000-square-foot, multi-level medical hospital is located on a 70 acre site at Camp Pendleton in southern California. The completed project will include inpatient medical facilities with a maximum of 67 patient beds, emergency care, primary care, specialty care clinics, surgery, intensive care and support spaces.  
Additional work includes adding a central utilities plant, a 1,500-space, multi-level parking structure, surface parking, and site development. The hospital will be designed and constructed in line with California’s seismic safety standards and to receive LEED® Gold certification.  

The project design is consistent with the surrounding environment.  The Naval Hospital replacement project at Camp Pendleton is one of the largest American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009 projects within the Department of Defense and is the largest ARRA project awarded in the Department of Navy.

Design and construction will begin in late 2010 and the project is scheduled for completion in 2014.

HKS, Inc. is a leading architectural design firm ranked among the top-four architectural/engineering firms, according to Building Design+Construction magazine and among the top-seven architectural firms, according to BD World Architecture magazine. Since its founding in 1939, HKS has completed construction projects totaling more than $66 billion in more than 1,038 cities located in 46 states, the District of Columbia and 64 foreign countries.  The firm operates from 23 worldwide offices.