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Niagara Health System

Location:
St. Catharines
Project Type:
DBFM - Design Build Finance Maintain
Infrastructure Type:
Health Care
Contract Price:
$759 million
Estimated Value for Money:
$96 million

About the Project

  • The new health-care complex is approximately 970,000 square feet and built on a 32-acre section of the 40-acre site in St. Catherines.
  • The new complex replaced the aging St. Catharines General and Ontario Street sites of the Niagara Health.

Status:

  • Request for Qualifications
    Nov 14, 2006
  • Short-list Bidders Selected
    Feb 20, 2007
  • Request for Proposals
    Aug 31, 2007
  • Winning Bidder Selected
    Mar 31, 2009
  • Construction Begins
    Apr 28, 2009
  • Construction Ends
    Nov 26, 2012

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Winning Bidder

Plenary Health Niagara: Plenary Group, Borealis Infrastructure, PCL Constructors Canada Inc., Bregman + Hamann Architects, Silver Thomas Hanley Architects and Johnson Controls.

Features

  • The Walker Family Cancer Centre provides close-to-home treatment for the more than 1,200 cancer patients who used to have to travel to Hamilton or Toronto for life-saving radiation treatment.
  • The new Regional Longer-Term Mental Health Centre provides longer-term inpatient mental health beds, combined with acute inpatient mental health beds and ambulatory care services for Niagara residents.
  • The new Regional Cardiac Catheterization Centre provides diagnostic investigation services, reducing hospitalizations for heart disease, lowering wait times and improving access to treatment.
  • 80 per cent single patient rooms.
  • CBRN (chemical, biological, radiological or nuclear) containment capability to deal with infectious outbreaks and disasters.
  • More windows to enhance natural light in patients' rooms and public and staff areas.
  • State-of-the-art operating suites designed to take advantage of sophisticated image-guided and laparoscopic surgery.
  • A patient-focused site design with healing gardens, ponds and walking paths.

Community And Green Benefits

  • Environmentally-friendly design features that achieved LEED Silver certification as part of the government's commitment to reduce energy use and greenhouse gas emissions.
  • The new facility allows the Niagara Health System to expand programs, recruit new staff and physically improve the delivery of quality healthcare.
  • Provides acute and critical care, surgical, emergency and ambulatory services all under one roof.
  • For the first time, provides regional services for cancer treatment, cardiac and mental health care.
  • 80 per cent single patient rooms.

Economic Benefits

  • The project provided a sizeable boost to the regional and Ontario economies during construction by directly and indirectly supporting and creating approximately 5,400 jobs, many of which were in the Niagara region.
  • An estimated 1000 workers were on site daily at the peak of construction.
  • Approximately 200 new health-care jobs were created once the facility opened, to support the new regional services in cancer, cardiac and mental health disease.

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