2023 COAA-TX Owners Forum - Galveston

COAA 101

Session 1

Keeping a Medical Campus Operational During Major Infrastructure Upgrades

Learning Objectives:

1. How to maintain clinical, research, and educational operations while conducting major infrastructure upgrades to an active medical campus
2. Determine how to balance the short and long-term operational needs with the capital realities, when the unexpected happens
3. Communication and planning are required to keep the high volume of students, teachers, doctors, patients, and project workers safe
4. Understand the major challenges and lessons learned, when you have to quickly begin implementing critical and invasive infrastructure projects
5. Performance of the improvements since becoming operational

Speakers – Tarek Thomas, Associate Vice President - the University of Texas Medical Branch; Ryan Hendrix, Texas Regional Manager, Healthcare, Archer Western | The Walsh Group

This unstructured discussion allows for professional-to-professional sharing of challenges, best practices, and lessons learned. 

Learning Objectives:

1. Gain insight from others regarding project delivery lessons learned.
2. Discuss specific current project management challenges and strategies for overcoming them.
3. Learn and be able to apply best practices from peers on a variety of project leadership issues.
4. With an emphasis on the people and relationships involved with project delivery, discuss means & methods for improving collaboration and team culture.

Session 3 & Lunch
The Tale of Two IPD Contracts:  Project’s Simultaneous Journey with Differing Successful Endings

Cook Children’s Health Care System has adopted the Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) method as its delivery tool of choice for projects over $20M.  Cook Children’s Health Care System and eight other partners created a “Virtual Company” and embarked on an IPD journey with two large capital projects in 2019.  This session will highlight the challenges and opportunities faced as these IPD projects responded to the pandemic.  It will showcase how the IPD method allowed for flexibility and altered the partner’s behavior resulting in successful delivery although the definition of “success” differed between the two projects.  For those that may not be ready for or unable to utilize IPD, this session will highlight important tenets of the IPD method that could be used with other project delivery methods.    

Learning Objectives: 

1. Define the IPD process and its structure.
2. Understand how IPD allows for flexibility and transparency.
3. Explain how IPD directs behavioral changes of the entire project team.
4. Evaluate opportunities to utilize key IPD tenets with other project delivery methods.

Speakers: Sam Werschky, P.E., Director, Construction & Facilities Planning; Spencer Seals, Vice President of Real Estate, Construction & Facilities Planning - Cook Children’s Health Care System

 John Sealy Tower Tour Introduction 

Come experience the transformation at John Sealy Hospital! UTMB has started the third phase of a major modernization project, focusing on improvements and renovations to the CD tower. The end result will be a stunning façade, similar to Jennie Sealy Hospital, with gleaming glass and new brick. The interior will feature more spacious, family-centered patient rooms and updated technology and furnishings. John Sealy Hospital currently houses the Mother & Baby and Labor & Delivery Units, the Children’s Hospital, and more. With over 280,000 square feet already renovated and $100 million from the Sealy & Smith Foundation, this project is sure to bring the highest quality care to UTMB's patients. Don't miss out on this exciting opportunity to see the future of healthcare!