Healthcare infrastructure is essential to every community. Finding innovative ways to construct these types of buildings within their changing constraints is an ongoing challenge for companies, especially when services and operations are ongoing. From hospitals to long-term care homes to health centres, Pomerleau has built upon its experience over the years to provide efficient and safe solutions for the construction and revitalization of healthcare infrastructures.
Ontario: Cornwall Community Hospital
Prioritizing the wellbeing of current staff and patients is Pomerleau’s first commitment when it comes to working on healthcare projects. Pomerleau did just that when redeveloping the Cornwall Community Hospital. The scope of the project was to centralize the activities of two separate locations under one roof, while maintaining the operations of the existing facility. Pomerleau limited construction disturbances, planning work around the operations of the facility. The company renovated a new two-storey area to house five operating rooms, retrofitted the emergency services new electrical room and replaced two generators. Pomerleau also performed an electrical substation relocation of vibration-sensitive equipment (MRIS and x-ray machines) and waterworks/sewer systems.
New Brunswick: Gagetown Integrated Health Service Centre Phase Two
Health projects are not limited to hospitals and retirement facilities. The industry is reimagining ways to provide a wide range of accessible health services to the public. In New Brunswick, Pomerleau is constructing a new portion of an Integrated Health Service Centre. The new construction includes the completion of the new Health Centre within two floors of the building. The centre will include occupational therapy, hydrotherapy, odontology, with an emergency operating theatre and an outpatient clinic. The existing centre will be renovated to accommodate a new pharmacy, administrative offices, training rooms, psychosocial services, and x-ray rooms.
Quebec: Montreal University Hospital Centre (CHUM) Phase Two
Maintaining the performance and safety of CHUM’s various hospital services and equipment while demolishing the existing hospital to allow for the construction of two new towers during phase two of the project, was essential to Pomerleau. To do this, members of Pomerleau’s Innovation Group’s planning axis deployed PlaniPOM, which modernizes the logistics of on-site deliveries. BIM was also used to improve the monitoring deficiencies and visualization of models and interfaces, and inspections of the work. The CHUM project provided an opportunity for Pomerleau’s innovation team to optimize their initiatives.
*This article was published in Renew Canada.