Shawn Jenkins Children’s Hospital

Location:

Charleston, SC

Size:

850,000 SF

Cost:

$350,000,000

Description:

The new state-of-the-art facility includes a neonatal intensive care unit, pediatric intensive care unit, labor and delivery unit, special care nursery, children’s emergency services, women’s services and other specialties. Despite being built on a peninsula on a site that was once marsh before being covered with fill material, this hospital is designed to withstand an earthquake, a hurricane, and flooding while remaining operational