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Women's College Hospital

Location:
Toronto
Project Type:
DBFM - Design Build Finance Maintain
Infrastructure Type:
Health Care
Contract Price:
$460 million
Estimated Value for Money:
$86 million

About the Project

  • The Women's College Hospital redevelopment project involved the construction of a new 630,000 square foot hospital on the hospital's former Grenville Street site in downtown Toronto.
  • The new hospital replaced older, outdated buildings and consolidated most hospital services in one location, enabling innovation in ambulatory models of care and enhancing the hospital's stature as a leader in women's health care, research and education.

Status:

  • Request for Qualifications
    Oct 01, 2008
  • Short-list Bidders Selected
    Apr 27, 2009
  • Request for Proposals
    May 29, 2009
  • Winning Bidder Selected
    Jul 14, 2010
  • Construction Begins
    Sep 28, 2010
  • Construction Ends
    Sep 24, 2015

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Winning Bidder

Women's College Partnership: Developer: Bilfinger Berger Project Investments; Design: Perkins Eastman Black/IBI Group; Construction: The Walsh Group/Bondfield Construction; Facilities Management: Black & McDonald/HSG Zander; Financial Advisor: Bilfinger Berger Project Investements. 

Features

  • The new multi-storey Women's College Hospital contains clinical, surgical, research and educational facilities, as well as administrative and other non-clinical space, designed to support and promote innovative ambulatory programs and service delivery.
  • Construction was completed in two phases:
    • The first phase involved the construction of a clinical tower on the eastern half of the hospital site.
    • On completion of the first phase, the existing hospital was demolished and a new administrative, research and education wing constructed on the site's western half.

Community And Green Benefits

Health care benefits from the Women's College Hospital's project include:

  • A state-of-the-art ambulatory facility designed with specialized clinics and surgical suites that integrate prevention, disease management, treatment, research and education, providing better patient flow, technology and an improved patient experience.
  • Easily accessible hub of programs, clinics and services that enable teams of care providers to help prevent and manage patients' diseases and conditions, based on how women lead their lives.
  • Consolidation of primary care, chronic disease management, surgical services, urgent care, gynaecology, diagnostics and mental health programs, all delivered in a flexible patient-centred, ambulatory mode.
  • Improved access to medical and diagnostic imaging services in an ambulatory setting.
  • Comprehensive services in breast, thyroid and skin cancers to advance one-stop diagnostic, therapeutic and surgical services.
  • Expansion of existing programs including two new operating rooms and an expanded Urgent Care Centre and Clinical Decisions Unit.
  • Co-location of research, education and patient care spaces to create improved knowledge translation between researchers, educators and clinicians.
  • Improved patient experience with more privacy and effective movement of people.
  • An increase in patient visits of more than 70 per cent annually.
  • The new hospital is designed and built to meet Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification standards, incorporating environmentally sustainable construction practices and energy efficient design.

Economic Benefits

  • At the peak of construction, it is estimated that 300 workers were on site daily. Labour was largely be drawn from the Greater Toronto Area.

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