KS, Perkins&Will, & McCarthy Vaughn Partnership Selected to Collaborate on Pediatric Campus

DALLAS (Feb. 13, 2024) — Children’s Health and UT Southwestern Medical Center have selected HKS and Perkins&Will as the integrated design team to collaborate on a new pediatric campus in Dallas to meet the demands of the growing North Texas population.

The new campus, which will replace the current Children’s Health hospital in Dallas, is designed to be one of the largest, most transformative pediatric hospitals in the nation. McCarthy Vaughn Partnership (MVP) — a joint venture of McCarthy Building Companies, Inc. and J.T. Vaughn Construction LLC — will serve as construction manager for the $5 billion project, which will include 552 beds and 4.5 million square feet of construction.

Children’s Health anticipates beginning construction on the new hospital campus in the second half of 2024. The hospital will potentially open in the next six to seven years.

Rachel Knox, studio practice leader of the health practice at HKS and a Partner in the Dallas-based global design firm, is principal-in-charge on the project.

Ian Sinnett, health principal in the Dallas studio of global architecture and design firm Perkins&Will, is the project’s director of planning.

Michael Malone, MVP project executive, said, “The new pediatric campus will be a critical hub to support ever-growing pediatric health care needs in Dallas today and well into the future. We are thrilled to be able to bring our extensive health care construction experience to help build the spaces that will make a difference in so many young lives.”

The new hospital will increase the inpatient capacity at Children’s Health by 38%. The hospital will also have 15% more emergency department (ED) space and 22% more operating room space, plus space for future expansion.

The facility will include a Level I pediatric trauma center with 90 ED exam rooms and 24 observation rooms. A new fetal care center will provide the region’s most advanced and accessible services for complex maternal and fetal health care.

Additional features include a connector bridge between the new campus and UT Southwestern’s William P. Clements Jr. University Hospital. A new outpatient building on campus will contain 96 exam rooms.

HKS is a global firm of architects, designers, planners and advisors. The company’s 1,500 people in 27 offices are united by the belief that an environmental, social and governance approach to design achieves design excellence. In 2023,it became a carbon neutral firm.

Perkins&Will, an interdisciplinary, research-based architecture and design firm, was founded in 1935 on the belief that design has the power to transform lives. The firm is committed to creating a better, beautiful, more equitable world through living design, an approach that integrates environmental, social, and design considerations to advance ecological health and well-being.  

MVP, a joint venture of McCarthy Building Companies, Inc. (McCarthy) and J.T Vaughn Construction LLC (Vaughn), is the construction manager at risk for the New Pediatric Campus project, a collaboration of Children’s Health and UT Southwestern Medical Center. Over the past two decades, McCarthy and Vaughn have completed a combined total of more than 40 million square feet of health care across the state, totaling nearly $10 billion.

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