The centerpiece of Nationwide Children's downtown campus expansion is the construction of a new 13-story, 700,000-square-foot main hospital building. Scheduled for opening in 2012, clinical features include an emergency/trauma center expanded to double the size of the current facility; a 40 percent increase in the size of patient rooms; and a floor dedicated to pediatric intensive care, cardiac intensive care, and transplants.
The first six floors are constructed of cast-in-place concrete, to limit vibration transmission. The upper seven floors are braced structural steel frames. Estimated construction cost is $260 million.