LeChase earns ENR award for United Health Services Wilson Medical Center expansion

Johnson City, NY The expansion of the United Health Services Wilson Medical Center has earned LeChase Construction Services a regional award from Engineering News-Record (ENR).

The project, which included construction of a new 183,000 s/f main tower and renovation of 29,000 s/f 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, NY 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.