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Raritan Bay Medical Center
Modernization Program
Old Bridge and  Perth Amboy, New Jersey

Torcon served as construction manager for a $45 million upgrade to Raritan Bay Medical Center’s (RBMC’s) facilities in Old Bridge and Perth Amboy, New Jersey. Most of the work occurred in Perth Amboy, which added a 140,000–square-foot structure between existing hospital buildings.

The Perth Amboy project began with the demolition of the site’s oldest building, which dated from 1909, and an adjacent five-story building from 1938. A new five-story tower was constructed to house key areas, such as operating rooms, pediatrics and maternity. The building addition is essentially a new hospital structure, providing the entire medical center with a new main entrance and an expansive lobby concourse, as well as a new image. Other service areas renovated and expanded include the Intensive Care Unit, medical surgical nursing and a coronary suite.

RBMC’s Old Bridge facility was simultaneously expanded under the program. Torcon added a full patient floor atop the hospital’s existing five-story building, nearly doubling the number of beds.

The newly created patient floor expanded the hospital’s critical care unit, adding a state-of-the-art 10-bed Intensive Care Unit and a 22-bed Telemetry Unit. The Old Bridge site also refurbished and expanded its lobby, added a larger gift shop and streamlined the admitting and patient billing areas.

Torcon’s safety performance on this project was widely celebrated. The project was accepted by OSHA as a Star site in its Voluntary Protection Program, the highest honor in VPP. The Greater New York Construction User Council also awarded Torcon’s site with its top honor, naming the Raritan Bay Medical Center project one of its three Safety Projects of the Year.