MEREDA 2024 Notable Project: Malone Family Tower, Portland
Photo / Courtesy of Anton Grassl
Photo / Courtesy of Anton Grassl
Photo / Courtesy of Anton Grassl
The Malone Family Tower is an eight-story addition to Maine Medical Center’s Portland campus. The tower is the culmination of a decade-long development initiative to increase access to hospital-based care, create more private rooms and facilitate better patient outcomes.
Faced with an aging campus, hospital leadership wanted to remain at the original location but needed to address infrastructure and community needs such as inefficient space allocation, population growth and a shortage of surgical beds.
The tower creates 19 procedure rooms, 40 pre- and post-surgical bays and 96 universal patient rooms that can be transitioned from ICU to medical/surgical beds to allow for the hospital to adapt as patient volumes and acuities require over time.
The Malone Family Tower is a catalyst for increasing overall campus performance and improves energy efficiency across the campus’ aging buildings. The tower is the first building of its kind in Maine to undergo a whole building lifecycle assessment, resulting in reduced embodied carbon and integration of durable natural materials that ensure long-term sustainability.
Through nature-based solutions, the building performs vital functions to the micro-climate and surrounding city. An urban community plaza and vegetated green roof support local plant species, mitigate water runoff, and minimize the “heat island” effect. These spaces offer access to the outdoors and a calming space for patients and care team members, which is often inaccessible to those in hospitals. Built on the site of a former parking garage, the Malone Family Tower re-establishes a lost connection with the city.
The Malone Family Tower improves the local economy by creating roughly 300 new jobs within the Portland area, reinforcing the project as a cornerstone of a resilient, thriving economic neighborhood.
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