ALL Crane Helps Construct New Women's Health Center in Columbus

Mon March 24, 2025
ALL Crane

Work on the new nine-story OhioHealth Women's Center is under way in Columbus, Ohio.

ALL Crane Rental Corp., a member of the ALL Family of Companies, is currently supplying two tower cranes for the project, with other heavy lift equipment arriving at the site soon.

The standalone medical center, which will total almost 590,000 sq.-ft., will become one of the leading facilities of its type in the country. It is being constructed on the southeast corner of the existing OhioHealth Riverside Methodist hospital campus.

ALL provided two Potain MD569 tower cranes for this phase, both erected in June 2024 and expected to be on site until the end of 2025. One is located on the east side and the other on the west side of the current project site. Both have a capacity of 25,000 lbs. and jib lengths of 262 ft. The taller of the two will have a final hook height of 258 ft., with the other at 209 ft.

"The towers are handling a variety of materials," said Richard Randall, general manager of ALL Crane Rental Corp. "Steel for the main structure, precast concrete panels and assisting with poured-in-place concrete features."

Randall credits the work of Chris Kirk, sales and rental specialist of ALL, for collaborating with contractors to deliver a package of heavy lift equipment beneficial to efficient construction.

Currently being built is a conventional concrete patient tower, with a five-level post-tension concrete parking garage to follow. The garage will be topped with a medical office building made of structural steel and metal decking. Two additional tower cranes from ALL will be delivered to the site during that phase of construction.

The facade of the main building will consist of architectural precast, curtain-wall glazing and metal wall paneling.

Brian Duffy, project manager of Lithko Contracting, said the tower cranes from ALL have formed the nucleus of work being done by his company and other trades on the site.

"They are the logistical heartbeat of everything we do here, from unloading trucks to setting and placing materials," said Duffy. "Beyond structural work, the tower cranes will play key roles in the installation of the building services equipment and the exterior facade."

When façade work begins, ALL will be called upon to supply multiple additional cranes from its yard.

"I anticipate needing rough-terrain cranes, hydraulic truck cranes and potentially even crawlers," said Christopher J. Hall of Ben Hur Construction.

The equipment will help erect more than 550 architectural precast panels on the exterior facade, weighing between 5,000 and 45,000 lbs.

"This is a complicated project," said Hall. "It has a variety of access challenges, vastly diverging material weights, and extremely tight site conditions, especially on the north elevation. It's a good project for everyone involved. I prefer the professionalism ALL Crane offers at every stage of the process."