The International Interior Design Association (IIDA) Northland Chapter has honored the building with first place in the healthcare category of its FAB Awards Program.

Additionally, the building has been cited for its “Excellence in Masonry Design and Construction” by the Minnesota Concrete and Masonry Contractors Association.

The 20-story Gonda Building is designed to accommodate the next century of medical advances. The design and construction team consisted of Ellerbe Becket, Cesar Pelli & Associates, Centex Rodgers Construction Company and the Mayo Facilities staff. Ellerbe Becket served as master planner, architect/engineer-of-record and designer for all clinical and support areas.

Located in the heart of the downtown campus, the Gonda Building is linked with the Mayo Building and Rochester Methodist Hospital, forming one of the largest interconnected medical facilities of its kind in the world, with more than 3.5 million sf.

The Gonda team developed a highly flexible facility that allows for expansion, redesign and accommodation of the ever-changing healthcare delivery system. The building’s flexible infrastructure, including structural, heating, ventilation and air-conditioning, electrical and communications services, materials handling and vertical circulation, provides a shell that allows for diverse clinical uses throughout each floor.

The Gonda project is the centerpiece of the most extensive building program in Mayo Clinic history. The subway and lobby levels of the new 1.5 million-sf Gonda Building opened in 2001 and nine additional floors of disease-specific patient care areas were completed and occupied sequentially during 2002 and 2003.

An innovator since its founding in 1909, Ellerbe Becket is a leader in architecture, engineering and the construction industry with office locations worldwide. This is the fourth time in the last five years that Ellerbe Becket has received a national award for outstanding teamwork.

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