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Naval Hospital Camp Pendleton Project Reaches $100 Million Milestone

Navy News Service

Story Number: NNS120119-25
1/19/2012

By Jesse A. Lora, Naval Facilities Engineering Command Southwest Public Affairs

CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. (NNS) -- Construction of the new naval hospital at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton reached a milestone, Jan. 13, when more than $100 million of work was completed.

Naval Facilities Engineering Command (NAVFAC) Southwest's Resident Officer In Charge of Construction (ROICC) Naval Hospital Camp Pendleton Replacement is managing the construction project. Clark McCarthy Joint Venture is the contractor for the project.

The stimulus hospital project signed by President Obama in 2009 awarded $451 million in federal stimulus funds, making it the largest American Recovery and Reinvestment Act project for the Navy.

Other significant milestones completed on the hospital project thus far include the completion of foundations, "Topping Out" of structural steel erection, and design completion. Milestones that are tracking for early completion later this year include substantial completion of the parking structure, completion of concrete placement for grade and deck slabs, start of exterior skin framing, and start of interior framing and drywall. The project has also garnered first place in the California Team Excellence Award (CTEA) competition for 2011, and will go on to represent the state in the International Competition this spring.

"Safety remains the paramount concern during construction, and the project currently boasts a rate of zero DART incidences over 202,315 cumulative man-hours of direct labor effort," said Lt. Cmdr. Stephen T. Padhi, NAVFAC Southwest senior assistant ROICC Naval Hospital Camp Pendleton Replacement.

DART (Days Away, Retractions, and Transfers) is established by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), U. S. Department of Labor, and is used to calculate the number of days away from work, work activities that are restricted by an injury, or where a worker is transferred to another type of work due to an injury. The Navy-Contractor team attributes this high safety rating to the cooperative culture of safety that has been firmly established on the job site.