PAGE A2 – March 2009 – The GTA Construction Report
Vanbots chosen contractor for Royal Victoria
Hospital’s Phase 1 Expansion Project
SANDRA KING – Special to The GTA Construction Report
Royal Victoria Hospital, existing hospital and add
in Barrie, and Infrastructure over 1,200 skilled profes-
Ontario achieved Financial sionals to the hospital’s pay-
Close on February 20, the roll.”
final major requirement be- Phase 1 focuses on the
fore construction can begin urgent priority areas within
with the chosen contractor, the hospital. The expansion
Vanbots, a Division of Car- includes 101 additional in-
illion Construction Inc. patient beds; significant ex-
A fixed price of $258.5 pansions of the Emergency
million and a set completion Department, Diagnostic Im-
date have been determined. aging and Laboratory; two
Construction of the hospi- additional Operating Rooms
tal’s new addition and can- and, of course, the Simcoe
cer centre is expected to be Muskoka Regional Cancer
completed in Fall 2011 and Centre.
it is anticipated that the sig- A self-contained seven-
nificant renovations to the bed coronary care unit will
existing hospital will be fin- provide intensive care and
ished by Spring 2013. monitoring for unstable and
“This is a very ambitious critically ill cardiac patients.
project,” said Suzanne The expansion plans also in-
Legue, senior director cor- clude the ‘shelling-in’ of
porate communications for two additional patient care
Royal Victoria Hospital units, allowing the hospital project is complete. Also in- RVH. Named Rotary House, “Progress has gone ex- cent, which has placed an
(RVH). “It is the largest in- to quickly add up to 64 more cluded in Phase 1 will be a in recognition of a $1.25 tremely well,” stated Legue. unprecedented demand on
frastructure project in the inpatient beds as they be- residential lodge for cancer million gift from the three “The government has re- the RVH, the only hospital
Simcoe Muskoka region – it come needed, even before patients who live 40 kilome- Rotary Clubs in Barrie, it sponded to the needs of the in Barrie.
will double the size of the Phase 2 of the expansion tres or more away from will be built adjacent to the community and the planning To accommodate the
cancer centre and offer a re- team has been working construction, there will be
laxing refuge for patients closely with Vanbots. The some changes at the RVH.
and their families. An un- RVH is only 12 years old, Hospital entrances will be
derground tunnel will pro- but it is extremely under- changing March 18. Crews
vide direct, protected access sized for the significant pop- are mobilizing on site and
to the cancer centre. In addi- ulation explosion that Barrie construction is expected to
tion to this significant ex- has been experiencing.” begin shortly. The objective
pansion, another 100,000 Barrie is the fastest of bringing quality and ac-
sq.-ft. of the current facility growing metropolitan area cessible care to the many
will also be undergoing ex- in the country. From 2001 to residents in the area that is
tensive renovations over the 2006, Barrie has had a pop- closer to home is well un-
next several years. ulation growth of 24 per derway.
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