Ochsner Baptist Operating Rooms Renovations Complete

Due to the broad flooding and extensive damage to the emergency systems in the building, caused by hurricanes Katrina and Rita, the Ochsner Baptist Operating building lay vacant until the Laboratory and Pharmaceutical renovations in 2008. Patient use gradually increased every year until 2011 when Ochsner approached HMS Architects to help relocate the Lab and Pharmacy spaces back into the main building.  The renovations to the four operating rooms, consisted of new medical gases, new electrical and mechanical systems and bringing the infrastructure back up to current standards. 

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Hahnville High School New Classroom Wing Completed

The new Hahnville High School Classroom Wing Addition serves as an infill classroom building. It was completed in May 2014 with a total cost of $6,717,000, which was under the bidding budget of $7.3 million. It is the eighth building on the campus and the fourth classroom building. The 36,632 square foot facility contains 21 classrooms. The building projects over a retaining pond due to the building size needed to accommodate all of the programs. Several of the classrooms are specialty classrooms which include art, drama, drafting, a special education living suite, a sensory classroom and a computer lab. Thank you to Lamar Contractors for your time and energy!

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Ochsner Health Center Mid-City Opens

The Ochsner Health Center, located in the neighborhood development of the Mid-City Market, was completed with a total cost of $290,000. The approximately 4,000 square foot walk in clinic consists of seven exam rooms, a laboratory and a triage area.  Satellite clinics by Ochsner, are being established in the New Orleans community to aid the neighborhoods medical services.  This facility provides primary care for every member of the family.

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Construction begins on the Hahnville High School Field House and Exercise Building.

HMS Architects has finished the drawings, and construction is underway on the Hahnville High School Field House and Exercise Buildings. Hahnville High School is located in Boutte, Louisiana and is part of the St. Charles Parish Public School System. The field house consists of four renovated locker rooms (Football Locker Room and Freshman Football, Track and Field, and an enlarged Girls P.E. Locker Room ) in addition to a meeting room, training suite, conference room, coaches offices, and a storage facility. The new exercise building consists of a weight room and a general exercise room, with a retractable batting cage system. Construction is expected to finish before the beginning of next season.  The general contractor is Crescent Commercial Construction.

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Nate Walker Gets Licensed

Nate Walker, RA, LEED AP has recently completed all of his Intern Development Program (IDP) training, and successfully passed all of his Architectural Registration Examinations (ARE). Nate's path to becoming a licensed architect is now complete. Nate becomes the tenth licensed architect at HMS Architects. All of us at HMS Architects congratulate Nate on this accomplishment!

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Construction underway for the Tulane Catholic Center

The Tulane Catholic Center is now under construction by F. H. Meyers construction. This three-story, 8,400 square foot building will be constructed with a rain screen siding system on structural metal studs. This building will contain a social area, a chapel with a sacristy, a conference room, two classrooms, and a small library with a study room.

Construction took about a year, starting in September of 2014, and is anticipated to take about a year to construct, for approximately 2 million dollars. 

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Groundbreaking held for Louisiana Pain Specialist building

Ground was broken on the new building for Louisiana pain Specialists on January 17th, 2014.  The new building, located at 3530 Houma Boulevard, will contain the 17,000+ SF offices of Louisiana Pain Specialists, as well as an additional 17,000+ square feet of available office space for other medical tenants.  The building also contains covered public parking, as well as a raised outdoor terrace.

The contractor, Striker Construction, plans to complete the building by early 2015.

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