AdventHealth Littleton Heart and Vascular Tower & CUP Expansion

The new tower allows for current and future expansion of the hospital's cardiovascular department.

The 86,500-square-foot, five-level addition includes new lab spaces, procedure rooms, waiting areas, operating rooms, a 24-bed ICU specifically for cardiac care, and associated support spaces. With the top two floors remaining core & shell space, the project allows for current and future expansion of the hospital’s cardiovascular department.

Saunders was later awarded the central utility plant (CUP) expansion to support the tower expansion. The team added a new chiller and space for a future chiller in the existing CUP building.

The Heart and Vascular Tower provides a full spectrum of services in one place, including minimally invasive procedures, open heart surgery, cardiac catheterization, and more. Specialists will have leading-edge technology to treat the most complicated cases.

Construction Fun Facts:

• The total weight of all the concrete and rebar for the project will be over 13 tons. That’s the same weight as 42,220,000 human hearts!
• Crews will be using about 123 miles of rebar. That’s roughly the distance from the hospital to Cheyenne, Wyoming.
• There will be roughly 6400 cubic yards of concrete placed, which would fill two Olympic-sized swimming pools.
• There will be about 12,550 square feet of glass, which would cover nearly 3 NBA courts.
• There will be roughly 80,000 bricks on the new project. If laid end-to-end, they would stretch approximately 10 miles.
• The building foundation is supported by drilled piers. The total length of all the piers added together is nearly half a mile.

Learn more in the article published by CCD Magazine.