El Paso Convention Center ACU
Location
El Paso, Texas
Completion Year
2020
Client
Texas Division of Emergency Management (TDEM)
Scope
Within 24 hours, SLS transformed the El Paso Convention Center and Performing Arts Center into a 100-bed COVID-19 alternate care facility.
Project Summary
In late October 2020, TDEM engaged the SLS team to transform the El Paso Convention Center and Performing Arts Center in downtown El Paso into a 100-bed COVID-19 alternate care facility to accommodate the growing number of COVID-19 patients in the region.
Within 48 hours of activation, the SLS team began transforming the facility into a clean, safe full-service field hospital, complete with low-pressure oxygen to every room, highly-qualified physicians and medical staff. In addition, the care site featured 20 intermediate care units with high pressure oxygen, bipap machines and ventilators.
Working on a fast-paced and compressed 24-hour per day construction cycle, the conversion was complete in less than a week. Multiple subcontractors, vendors and over 100 personnel were utilized during construction, with over a hundred medical, service and trade personnel engaged during operations.