The expansion of the United Health Services Wilson Medical Center in Johnson City, N.Y., has earned LeChase Construction Services a prestigious regional award from Engineering News-Record (ENR), a trade publication and authority on the industry.
The project, which included construction of a new 183,000-square-foot main tower and renovation of 29,000 square feet in the existing hospital building, won the 2025 Regional Best Project award in the healthcare category from ENR New York. It is one of three LeChase projects that ENR will honor at its award ceremonies this fall. The others are the Corning Museum of Glass studio expansion in Corning, N.Y., which will receive an Award of Merit in the cultural/worship category, also from ENR New York; and the new Murray-Massenburg Elementary School in Durham, N.C., which was named Regional Best Project in the K-12 education category by ENR Texas & Southeast.
“We were honored to work with our colleagues at UHS on this transformational project and grateful to ENR for recognizing the collaboration and dedication to excellence that drove its success,” said LeChase Vice President Adam Green. “UHS Wilson is now able to enhance and expand the crucial healthcare services it offers for those across the Binghamton area.”
The award marks the second ENR honor LeChase earned this year for construction projects in the region. Earlier this year, ENR awarded LeChase its national “Best of the Best” award in the renovation/restoration category for the Victory Lofts development, which created 156 upscale market-rate apartments and space for retail in an abandoned Johnson City shoe factory.
The Wilson Medical Center project was the hospital campus’s first major upgrade in more than 30 years. The new six-story tower, which opened last year, added four floors of in-patient medical and surgical units with 30 private rooms each, a new emergency department, a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) suite, a surgical support area and a rooftop helipad. LeChase maximized efficiency and quality on the project by incorporating numerous prefabrication aspects, saving more than 38,000 hours of on-site labor and $1.8 million in expenses.
The ENR Regional Best Project Awards will be presented at ceremonies this fall. The New York projects will receive their awards at the ENR New York Best Projects event in the Edison Ballroom in New York City on November 20. The Murray-Massenburg school will receive its award on October 23 at the ENR Southeast Best Projects event in the Renaissance Orlando at SeaWorld in Orlando, Fla.
For the full list of winners, click the following links: ENR NY | ENR Texas & Southeast
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The new six-story patient tower that now serves as the “front door” to UHS Wilson Medical Center in Johnson City, NY. This view shows the new redesigned main entrance and drop-off ramp that faces Main Street – making access easier for patients and visitors.
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Aerial view of the new hospital tower featuring the relocated helipad. Previously, the helipad was located on the parking garage roof (back left). Given the relocation of both the helipad and expanded emergency department to the new tower, helicopter-to-ER transfer time is now just 90 seconds versus the previous 4-5 minutes.
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The main corridor and patient waiting area.
About LeChase Construction Services, LLC
Established in 1944, LeChase is celebrating its 80th anniversary this year. While maintaining the personalized service of a small firm, today the company ranks among the nation’s top contractors – serving clients through a variety of delivery methods to support projects of all sizes across a range of industries. With a dedicated team of talented professionals striving to deliver excellence, the firm has earned a reputation for safety, quality and integrity. In addition to serving customers from its operations across the East Coast, LeChase can provide resources to meet the unique needs of clients no matter where they are located.
