UCH Highlands Ranch Hospital

Project Overview

Mortenson was selected as Construction Manager and General Contractor for hospital construction on the UCHealth Highlands Ranch Hospital, part of Mortenson's ongoing work in the Denver, CO area. The new hospital campus in Highlands Ranch was built on a 33.3-acre greenfield site. The facility is 360,000 square feet in size, along with an adjacent 85,000-square-foot medical office construction project that houses a two-story cancer center and parking garage.

The hospital features a birth center including C-section operating rooms and Level III NICU, intensive care unit, operating rooms, Level III trauma center, and emergency department, advanced cardiac services, and complete imaging. The project consists of 165-beds (111-finished beds and 54-shelled beds) as well as a 550-stall parking garage. 

Prefabrication on an Aggressive Schedule

Mortenson used prefabricated hospital construction to help ensure the aggressive construction schedule stayed on track, including 51-prefabricated bathrooms, 70-prefabricated head wall components, and 713-prefabricated exterior panels, part of a broader modular hospital construction strategy. Mortenson also leveraged advanced virtual and augmented reality to ensure design intent was seamlessly translated into efficient and productive spaces at buildout, enhancing staff productivity and improving patient care. This included “virtual box walks” that helped ensure room and equipment layouts supported the needs of the end-users. This feedback is incorporated into the final design and building models.

Mortenson brings this same combination of prefabrication and CM/GC hospital construction delivery to health systems across the country planning their next expansion, whether the goal is compressing schedule, protecting quality, or both. 

See how the same approach delivered Saint Joseph Hospital in Denver and a prefabricated temporary skyway at Abbott Northwestern Hospital. Learn more about Mortenson's hospital construction experience.