ENR 2024 Midwest Best Projects

ENR 2024 Midwest Best Projects

Best Project, Healthcare: Essentia Health

November 15, 2024

Essentia Health St. Mary’s Medical Center

Duluth, Minn.

BEST PROJECT

Submitted by: EwingCole

Owner: Essentia Health

Lead Design Firm, Structural Engineer, MEP Engineer: EwingCole

General Contractor: McGough Construction

Civil Engineer: LHB

Landscape Architect: Damon Farber

Photo by Jalkin/Mason Photography

Situated in Duluth, Minn., on the shore of Lake Superior, St. Mary’s Medical Center is a major regional medical hub serving patients in northern Minnesota and western Wisconsin.

Photo by Jalkin/Mason Photography

The $900-million facility sits on an existing medical campus that required blasting of a cliff face, demolition of existing structures, remodeling of and a tie-in to existing buildings and a three-story vertical expansion above one of the occupied clinical buildings.

Photo by Jalkin/Mason Photography