Proton Therapy Center

To bring advanced proton therapy treatment to patients in New Jersey, Virtua Health partnered with Penn Medicine to develop the state’s first proton therapy facility on Virtua’s Voorhees hospital campus.

Integrated with the existing healthcare campus, the highly specialized facility is essentially a concrete vault supported by micro pile and auger-cast pile foundations, with six-foot-thick poured-in-place concrete walls and three-foot-thick precast roof planks designed to support the sophisticated treatment environment. LF Driscoll carefully planned concrete placement, testing, and curing and used intensive virtual modeling to precisely coordinate formwork and MEP infrastructure before concrete was poured, when adjustments would become extremely difficult. The project also required extensive campus infrastructure improvements, including a new air handling unit and emergency generator and replacement of sanitary and water lines, all carefully coordinated to minimize impacts to the surrounding active hospital campus.