Short-listed Construction Teams Invited To Bid 

TORONTO - Toronto Rehabilitation Institute's University Centre major redevelopment project has reached another key milestone with the release of a request for proposals (RFP) to build and finance the new addition and expansion at the hospital. 

Renovations will be made to the existing 12-storey East Wing and four-storey North Wing. The existing South Wing and auditorium will be demolished and a new 13-storey patient care and research tower will be built. 

Once completed, Toronto Rehabilitation's University Centre will be a more modern hospital with facilities better designed to provide care to adults undergoing rehabilitation for serious injury and illness including stroke, brain injury and multiple traumas and cancer. The redevelopment will also include the creation of iDAPT facilities - Intelligent Design for Adaptation, Participation and Technology - one of the most advanced rehabilitation research facilities in the world. Toronto Rehab's iDAPT facilities will significantly change the landscape of rehabilitation research in Canada and beyond.  

The following building teams were short-listed through a request for qualifications (RFQ) issued in April 2007 and have been invited to bid on the project: 

  • Aecon Construction 
  • Bird Construction 
  • Bondfield Construction 
  • Carillion Canada Inc. 
  • EllisDon 
  • PCL Construction 
  • Vanbots Construction 

These teams have the construction, operational and financial capacity required to undertake a project of this size and complexity. Once submissions to the RFP are received and reviewed, a winning team will be selected in spring 2008, with construction scheduled to begin shortly after. 

“We are encouraged by the government's continued support and commitment,” said Toronto Rehabilitation Institute President and CEO Mark Rochon. “We are one step closer to delivering our specialized patient care services and our innovative research and education programs in state-of-the-art facilities that are more conducive to the rehabilitation needs of our patients.” 

The Toronto Rehabilitation Institute (Toronto Rehab) is at the forefront of one of the most important and emerging frontiers in health care today - rehabilitation sciences. As a fully affiliated teaching and research hospital of the University of Toronto, Toronto Rehab is Canada's largest provider of adult rehabilitation services, complex continuing care, and long-term care. Toronto Rehab is advancing rehabilitation knowledge and practice through research, education and patient care. 

Infrastructure Ontario and the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care will work with the Toronto Rehabilitation Institute to redevelop the hospital, which will remain publicly owned, publicly controlled and publicly accountable. Infrastructure Ontario is a Crown corporation dedicated to managing some of the province's larger and more complex infrastructure renewal projects-ensuring they are built on time and on budget.

This project is guided by principles outlined in the Province's Building a Better Tomorrow framework, which ensures public ownership of core assets such as hospitals, schools, and water and wastewater facilities. 

Visit www.infrastructureontario.ca for more information. 

Contacts: 

Jessica Hooker 
Infrastructure Ontario
416-327-5325

Carolyn Lovas 
Toronto Rehabilitation Institute
416-597-3422, ext. 3837

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