NECA contractor Guarantee Electrical is part of the team led by McCarthy Building Cos. building a new 14-story pediatric hospital for SSM Health.  The St. Louis Business Journal recently spotlighted the SSM Health Cardinal Glennon Children’s Hospital being built at Chouteau Avenue and Grand Boulevard in Midtown. SSM Health Cardinal Glennon Children’s Hospital President Hossain Marandi noted that the hospital responds “to the growing need of highly specialized neonatal and pediatric services for the transformative, brand-new healing facility designed to provide the best pediatric care for generations to come” The 505,092-square-foot facility will feature more than 200 beds and is expected to open in 2027.  It will replace the current SSM Health Cardinal Glennon, a 195-bed facility at 1465 S. Grand Blvd.  Learn more.

Electrical Connection contractor Tristar Electric and its IBEW workforce are delivering electrical and communication installations for the new $11.5 million Eureka Government Center. Working with Integrate Construction Partners, the new 30,000-square-foot facility is named the Michael A. Wiegand Justice Center after the city’s police chief.  It will house Eureka’s police department, municipal court and city offices. Interior walls are built and all the underground conduits are terminated into their boxes. All the low voltage, security and audio-visual rough ins are complete as well. Power wiring in the walls is currently being roughed in. Drywall will be going up soon. The project will be completed in December 2024. Learn more.

Coltrane Systems is reminding industrial businesses of the importance of regular maintenance to protect against arc flash. Arc flash is an uncontrolled energy discharge that results when a fault occurs with an electrical circuit releasing a tremendous amount of energy. It can produce a surge of heat up to 35,000 degrees or four times that produced by the sun.  And it can be loud – a hearing-impairment 140 decibels. Every year, about 2,000 people are treated for injuries related to arc flash.  Learn more.