Cases & Deals

City of Hope builds new cancer center

Client(s) City of Hope

Jones Day represented City of Hope National Medical Center in connection with the design and construction of the Beckman Cancer Center. The firm prepared project documents, including the contracts with the design professionals, the construction contractor and the owner's representative and project manager. The facility included the design and construction of a GMP-Compliant islet cell production and manufacturing facility for genetic engineering of reprogrammed immune cells for target treatment of cancer in patients. The design and construction also had to provide for a quality control laboratory, process development laboratory, correlative studies laboratory and radiopharmacy space. The project utilized building information modeling ("BIM"), including to facilitate MEP coordination.