The Beck Group Wins 2013 Collaborators of the Year Award

Feb. 5, 2013 - PRLog -- DALLAS -- The Beck Group, a worldwide, integrated architecture, construction, technology and professional services firm, today announced it has won the Howell Ballard Lichtig Collaborators of the Year award. The award, sponsored by the Collaboration Forum, recognizes a team of collaborative minded professionals whose outstanding manner of project integration in planning and delivery propelled their project to a successful outcome.

The 188,000 SF Texas Health Harris Methodist Alliance Hospital is a four-story ground up full services hospital comprised of two adjoining towers, which includes encompass 24 medical surgical beds, 12 ICU beds, 14 post-partum beds, six LDR beds, an eight-bed NICU and an eight-bed nursery. A 72,000 SF two-story medical office building (MOB) is connected to the hospital by a windowed hallway. In addition to physician offices, the MOB includes a physical therapy center and an ambulatory surgical center. The Texas Health Harris Methodist Alliance Hospital and associated MOB are both true Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) projects with tri-party agreements.

Project team members recognized include Texas Health Resources, The Beck Group, Perkins+Will, Cummings Electric, Dyna Ten, and LASCO. The Howell Ballard Lichtig Collaborators of the Year is the only national award recognizing excellence on IPD collaborative projects.

About The Collaboration Forum:
Organized by Cima Strategic Services, the Collaboration Forum draws together collaboration subject experts and practitioners to build relationships , provide leadership, deliver just-in-time support and select a common objective to reach in a collaborative manner.  

About Beck’s Healthcare Practice:
The Beck Group has been working in the healthcare industry for more than 60 years on renovations, reconfigurations and ground up design and construction. Beck’s integrated approach is revolutionizing healthcare project delivery. With construction expertise used during the design process and architectural experience applied throughout pricing, scheduling and construction, Beck solves many of the problems that slow or complicated the delivery of healthcare projects.

About Beck:
Founded in 1912, The Beck Group offers a full spectrum of commercial professional services including development, planning, architecture, interior design, construction and sustainability consulting. The company is headquartered in Dallas and maintains a national team of over 500 employees, 40 percent of whom are LEED®APs and who work among a network of offices in Atlanta, Austin, Denver, Fort Worth, Mexico City, San Antonio and Tampa. The firm’s notable projects in recent years have included the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Georgia; Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas, Texas; Michael W. Krzyzewski Center for Athletic Excellence in Durham, North Carolina; Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, California; and the USF Health Center for Advanced Medical Learning and Simulation (CAMLS) in Tampa, Florida. For more information, visit www.beckgroup.com.

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