Pioneering Climate-Responsive Healthcare Facilities

Turner Construction Company is leading the way in addressing the essential need for building healthcare facilities that prioritize resiliency, functionality, safety, and sustainability. Turner's recently topped-out healthcare project—Massachusetts General Hospital—demonstrates how sustainability and resilience are integrated into healthcare construction to meet the challenges posed by climate risks. The Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Phillip and Susan Ragon Building in Boston exemplifies resilient and sustainable healthcare design and construction. This 1.9-million-square-foot redevelopment, a collaboration between Turner and Walsh Brothers, is being built to meet Boston’s ambitious 2050 carbon reduction goals while enhancing operational resilience. Turner’s preconstruction team played a pivotal role in the introduction of design strategies, evaluating costs, and driving implementation solutions to ensure the project’s long-term resiliency and adoption to the energy transition. The project features include climate-responsive systems, wind-resistant designs, and flood barriers to mitigate risks from severe weather. The building also operates as a '96-hour island' under shelter-in-place provisions, ensuring continuous operations during emergencies. Sustainability integration includes a 90% reduction in emissions compared to baseline code buildings. With a focus on resilient infrastructure, the project integrates a heat pump configuration that extracts energy from the building’s warm exhaust air for pre-heat and re-heat, reducing emissions significantly. Turner continues to lead in implementing advanced systems across the healthcare and life sciences sectors.