The University of Pennsylvania Health System has selected a team to help it construct a new hospital tower and, in another step forward, has issued a request for proposals for the demolition of Penn Tower.
The health system has retained L.F. Driscoll and Balfour Beatty Construction to oversee the building of the new Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (HUP) facility. Driscoll is a Philadelphia construction management firm owned by Structure Tone.
Balfour Beatty Construction is a national construction management firm based in Dallas. Driscoll has been a go-to firm for the health system in the past and has completed a deep list of projects for it. Balfour Beatty has extensive health care experience.
The health system has also selected the architectural firm Foster + Partners to design what will be an estimated $1.5 billion project. Foster + Partners, based in London, is a world-renowned firm that also designed the Comcast Center for Innovation and Technology. (Driscoll is also the general contractor on that $1.2 billion project.)
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