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FEBRUA RY 2016 | 61 Oakville Trafalgar Memorial Hospital Her firm was responsible for the rehab and parking structure while Stephenson Engineering worked on the patient tower and diagnostic imaging building. And co-ordinating all the consultants and trades working on site was EllisDon's team, which managed an aggressive schedule that saw the first footing poured in May of 2012 and substantial completion occur in July of 2015. It was a 38-month full-court-press that saw a greenfield site turned into a 1.6-million-square-foot hospital, a 400,000-square-foot, six-storey parking garage and an expansive surface lot (together totalling more than 2,000 spaces). Not to mention the development of roadways in and around the complex and major infrastructure work such as the installation of an eight-foot-diameter sanitary line at a depth of 45 feet. "The schedule was certainly a challenge but it was also the sheer size of the project," says Jeff McKay, EllisDon's senior project manager for the Oakville Trafalgar Memorial Hospital project. At its peak, the site saw 1,200 workers daily and throughout the duration a virtual village of construction trailers housed 150 office staff – many of whom worked for the long list of consultants on the job. Managing the inherent complexity of the mechanical system figured prominently in the contribution of HH Angus, the project's mechanical engineer and vertical transportation consultant. Work required the integration of systems across multiple engineering companies that produced various portions of the design, says principal-in-charge Paul Keenan. As well, Keenan explains, the scale of the project required the use of a smoke control and venting system that used the building automation system for its control instead of the traditional fire alarm system. Infrastructure Ontario's senior VP of project delivery for healthcare, Yaprak Berktin offers further context for this DBFM – one of the two largest hospital projects in Ontario that have achieved substantial completion. "They had 52 users groups with a minimum of four rounds of user group meetings, and three rounds of equipment meetings. That's 52 departments where the design has to be reviewed multiple times. By comparison, on a regular project, you'd have 12 to 19 users groups," she explains. As complicated as it is to complete a health care DBFM project, it can also have a complicated start. Massive undertakings such as this require the integration of a schedule that accommodates a number of players' interests. In this case, Infrastructure Ontario's procurement process, the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care's capital planning process, and the hospital's own compliance team's need to develop tender documents and specifications. Even the municipality was involved because the work would occur on a greenfield where site services and land agreements needed to be sorted. Much of the work fell to a division of Stantec's project delivery office. "Our challenge was to integrate the requirements of all those parties into a workable plan," explains Stantec's John Wieser. Once that was done and the project awarded, Wieser's team began to work with the hospital on operational readiness so that when the consortium handed over the keys, the hospital's staff could bring into practice all the methods of care delivery they had redesigned to function in the new space and at a new level. The doors are now open and the Oakville Trafalgar Memorial Hospital completed its patient transfer on December 13, 2015. Carillion, as the lead operator of the services joint venture with EllisDon, is responsible for primarily the general management services, hard facility management services and the lifecycle for a period of 30-years. "We are delighted to be a key part of maintaining this new facility," says Trevor Gard, Carillion VP, Services. "Our team is committed to delivering the highest quality service to Halton Health Services and the community it serves for the next three decades." A PHOTOGRAPHY BY RICHARD JOHNSON/COURTESY PARKIN ARCHITECTS LIMITED Mechanical Design Consultants for the Oakville Trafalgar Memorial Hospital TEL 416.497.3111 FAX 416.497.7210 WWW.CEL.CA CROSSEY ENGINEERING LTD. Crossey Eng.indd 1 15-12-08 12:07 PM STREETSCAPING, CONCRETE & UNIT PAVING FOR THE OAKVILLE TRAFALGAR MEMORIAL HOSPITAL CONSTRUCTION LTD. CANADIAN ROAD CONSTRUCTION & ENGINEERING CO. 57 Corstate Avenue, Suite A, Concord, Ontario L4K 4Y2 Tel: 905-669-0001 Fax: 905-669-0003 Construction.indd 1 16-01-19 10:55 AM Canada.indd 1 14-11-07 3:20 PM UNIVEX Proud to be the Prime Electrical Design/Build Contractor for the Oakville Trafalgar Memorial Hospital THE UNIVEX GROUP OF COMPANIES Electrical Contractors and Design Engineers 303 RIVER ROAD, P.O. BOX 5160, STATION F. OTTAWA, CANADA K2C 3H4 TELEPHONE (613) 526-1500 FAX (613) 526-4797 mcaletti@univex.ca Univex.indd 1 16-01-25 7:58

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