DALLAS—Children’s Health and UT Southwestern Medical Center have selected HKS and Perkins&Will as the integrated design team to collaborate on a new pediatric campus in Dallas to meet the demands of the growing North Texas population.
The new campus, which will replace the current Children’s Health hospital in Dallas, is designed to be one of the largest, most transformative pediatric hospitals in the nation. McCarthy Vaughn Partnership (MVP)—a joint venture of McCarthy Building Companies, Inc. and J.T. Vaughn Construction LLC—will serve as construction manager for the $5 billion project, which will include 552 beds and 4.5 million square feet of construction.
Children’s Health anticipates beginning construction on the new hospital campus in the second half of 2024. The hospital will potentially open in the next six to seven years.
Rachel Knox, Studio Practice Leader of the Health practice at HKS and a Partner in the Dallas-based global design firm, is principal-in-charge on the project.
“The Children’s Health team and the physicians from UT Southwestern who work at Children’s Health are just incredible, compassionate caregivers,” said Knox. “We’re creating a facility that not only matches that level of care but will allow them to enhance it.”
Ian Sinnett, Health Principal in the Dallas studio of global architecture and design firm Perkins&Will, is the project’s director of planning.
“For more than 110 years, Children’s Health has made it their mission to make life better for children. We’re deeply honored to help them continue achieving this goal through the design of a new world-class health campus,” said Sinnett. “This hospital will be a gamechanger for children and their families all across Texas—and for the incredible care staff committed to their healing journeys.”
