Construction Update from Mirebalais Hospital—Late May

Stucco work inside the future outpatient clinic.

 

Director of Construction Jim Ansara is speaking with the engineers and foreman.

The scope of the construction site as taken on May 21, 2011.

The hospital site was partially shut down on last weekend, May 27-28, so that the Dominican construction workers could celebrate their Mother’s Day. However, two hundred non-Dominican workers continued the construction throughout most of the 14-acre site.

The first two buildings – the outpatient building and community health center – are coming together nicely. The stucco on the first floor interiors has been completed and work on the exterior has begun. Plumbing continues with the installation of water piping to the sinks and toilets.

Soon they will complete the walls on the second floor above the community health center, and that area will contain administrative offices, dental suites, and medical education classrooms.

The masons are hard at work, finalizing the walls of the building that will house the laundry facilities, the kitchen, and the mechanical and electrical equipment for the campus. They are also building the walls for the isolation wards, which will accommodate patients with airborne infectious diseases such as tuberculosis.

The construction team has begun laying the foundation for a new building that will house the children’s and women’s wards.

The electrical crew is almost finished putting electrical boxes and conduit in the walls of each building that is under construction.

Work continues on the campus-wide surface drainage system, as the central drainage trench has been completed. The Vetiver and Bamboo planted in May for erosion control has taken well and is stabilizing the soil on the steep slopes on the perimeter of the site.