BY BILL HETHCOCK | STAFF WRITER
Converting a former artillery production facility into medical
laboratory space is no easy task.
But that's the type of work Scott + Reid General Contractors
Inc. has found itself increasingly performing as the health care
niche of its business grows.
Scott + Reid has doubled its health care related work this year;
contributing to about 30 percent of the commercial construction
company's business. This has increased from an average of 12
percent to 15 percent in years past.
The company recenlty completed the global headquarters for med
fusion LLC in Lewisville. The $12 million project consisted
of transforming the former home of Raytheon at 2501 State Highway
121 in Lewisville into a 172,000-square-foot pathology office and
clinical laboratory in just five months.
"We've really started growing the work that we're doing with
clinical labs, and that's one of the things that differentiates
us," said Brad Reid, president, who founded Scott + Reid with Chris
Scott in 1992.
The med fusion project included new mechanical systems with
automated walk-in refrigeration units, modernization of plumbing to
accommodate new laboratory systems, data room infrastructure and
new office space, Reid said. The clinical spaces were
finished out as a clean room, biopsy review lab, research and
development, high biosafety-level lab and clinical trial area.
Scott + Reid also reconfigured the building with a
composite-metal panel system facade, added to the facility's glass
curtain wall, made significant structural modifications and
completed extensive site work and landscaping.
Keith Laughman, med fusion's CEO, said the project was highly
technical and complex.
"Scott + Reid's knowledge and experience were critical to the
success of the project," Laughman said. "They delivered
timely results and a top-quality finished product."
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Dallas Business Journal | Commercial Real Estate
Quarterly | August 6, 2010 | by Bill
Hethcock