Fort Worth, Texas
To continue to meet the growing needs North Texas families, Cook Children’s is in the midst of the largest facility expansion in their history. The project includes a 283,000 sf inpatient tower and 250,000 sf medical office building — doubling the size of the current campus.

The North Tower will expand Cook Children’s world-class care with 158 new patient rooms. With an emphasis on enhancing the patient and family experience, the North Tower will include amenities such as new food court-style cafeteria and dining area, in-room overnight accommodations, a business center and concierge services. Cook Children’s neonatal intensive care units will be relocated, expanded and converted to an all private room environment. The new building includes the relocation and expansion of Cook Children’s inpatient Medical Rehabilitation and Transitional Care departments as well as relocation and expansion of the inpatient Hematology Oncology department.

The new Medical Office Building will conveniently consolidate all of Cook Children’s ambulatory care programs. The facility will house multi-specialty clinics, physician office suites, supporting diagnostic services, a full ambulatory radiology center and a new clinical laboratory.

The project team applied Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) principles and used Building Information Modeling (BIM), leveraging innovative technology and exceptional teamwork to maximize efficiency and resources during design and through construction. BIM’s three-dimensional design platform allowed the team to collaboratively test alternative concepts and resolve issues in the virtual world, resulting in more informed decisions to streamline the project.

Architect:  FKP Architects
Project Size:  533,000 sf
Services:  Equipment Planning