Construction at the Johns Hopkins Medical Campus

Medical Campus Redevelopment

With the basements and shoring complete on our two new clinical towers, we have begun phase II of Johns Hopkins' $950 million construction project, one of the largest of any hospital in the country. We expect those buildings—the cardiovascular and critical care tower and the children's center—to be completed by the end of 2011 and operating by the spring of 2012.

Just one of many features of the new buildings will be a new main entrance for the hospital on Orleans Street. Larger than a football field, the new entry court will be designed with one continuous canopy, like an airport, to give coverage from the elements. All entrances to the hospital, including the adult and pediatric emergency rooms, will stem from the entry court.

As part of a 10-year master plan, Johns Hopkins is building two connected clinical towers: the cardiovascular and critical care towers, and a new children's hospital.

State of the Art

• Adult and Pediatric Emergency Departments
• Adult and Pediatric Diagnostic Imaging/Radiology
• Two 12-story towers
• Two-story main entrance lobby, four-story Children’s atrium lobby
• Glass-enclosed bridges between the Orleans Garage and the towers
• Connecting to main hospital corridors, Weinberg and Nelson/Harvey buildings

Facts About New Towers

• 1.6 million square feet on a 5-acre site
• lower floors are nearly 3 acres each, or 130,680 square feet per floor
• 12,500 tons of structural steel
• 44,500 cubic yards of new concrete
• 7,284,000 linear feet
• (1379 miles) of copper wire—enough to stretch between Baltimore and Miami
• 1,703,364 linear feet (322 miles) of conduit—a round trip between Baltimore and Ocean City
• over 4,000 plumbing fixtures
• 3.5 million pounds of sheet metal ductwork for HVAC systems
• peak expected project workforce of 1200 workers in 2009 and 2010
• 244,000 square feet of glass window walls and exterior windows, including 1,423 curtain wall panels weighing up to 1,800 pounds each

33 Operating Rooms

• Neurosurgery/General Surgery 14
• Pediatric 10
• Cardiac 6
• Obstetrics 3
• Adult and Pediatric Prep and Recovery

355 Adult Beds (single rooms)

• Acute Care Rooms 224
• Intensive Care Rooms 96
• Obstetrics 35

205 Pediatric Beds (single rooms)

• Acute Care Rooms 120
• Intensive Care Rooms 85
• Pediatric Trauma Service—Level 1
• Pediatric Burn Services
• Indoor Play Area

• Hopkins Breaks Ground for New East Baltimore Medical Campus - Press Release, June 5, 2006
• Extreme Makeover - Dome, September 2005

> Information about parking changes on the campus

Science + Technology Park at Johns Hopkins

The 31-acre park is part of the New East Baltimore Community, a 12- to 15-year urban renewal project north of the medical campus. It will ultimately include up to two million square-feet of life sciences and research space.
> More about the park

• Towers Rising - Dome, April 2008
• Picture of Construction of new Biotech Park - Dome, October 2006
• Biotech Park’s First Building Gets Off the Ground - Dome, May 2006
• A New Era Begins in East Baltimore - The JHU Gazette, April 17, 2006
• A New Place to Call Home - Dome, June 2005