Curved steel and wave-shaped canopy
The hospital’s curved framing and wave-shaped entrance canopy required accurate detailing of non-orthogonal steel geometry.
LocationWheat Ridge, Colorado
Client and FabricatorDrake-Williams Steel
Structural SteelApproximately 3,720 tons
Building SizeApproximately 660,000 square feet
OpenedAugust 2024
Project overview
Structural steel detailing for a new 660,000-square-foot hospital campus.
Intermountain Health Lutheran Hospital was built to replace the former Lutheran Medical Center in Wheat Ridge, Colorado.
The six-level acute care hospital occupies a 27-acre campus that also includes a central utility plant, rooftop helipad and parking structure. The new hospital opened to patients in August 2024.
Working for Drake-Williams Steel, Anatomic provided structural steel detailing for approximately 3,720 tons of steel.
Approx. 3,720
Tons detailed
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Project team and technical details
- Former Project Name
- SCL Health Replacement Hospital
- Owner
- Intermountain Health
- Engineer of Record
- Martin/Martin
- Architect
- HDR
- Construction Manager
- Barton Malow–Haselden Joint Venture
- Building Height
- Six levels
- Construction Start
- 2021
- Primary Scope
- Structural steel detailing
- Additional Scope
- Architectural and MEP support steel
Technical complexity
Complex geometry and building-system interfaces.
Long-span connecting bridge
A steel bridge links the parking structure to Level 2 of the hospital. Its detailing required coordination with the structural and circulation conditions at both ends.
Architectural and MEP support steel
Extensive secondary steel had to be coordinated with the primary structure and the architectural and MEP systems distributed throughout the six-level hospital.
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