Bluewater Health

Location:
Sarnia
Project Type:
BF - Build Finance
Infrastructure Type:
Health Care
Price of Contract:
$214.1 million
Estimated Value for Money:
$16.2 million
Exterior Photograph of Bluewater Emergency
Exterior Photograph of Bluewater Health
Photograph of Bluewater Health under construction
Artistic Rendering of Bluewater Health

About the Project:

  • The Bluewater Health project involved the construction of a new seven-storey, 325,000-square-foot addition and the renovation of 130,000 square feet of existing space.

Status

  • Request for Qualifications:
    Mar 21, 2006
  • Short-list Bidders Selected:
    Oct 20, 2006
  • Request for Proposals:
    Oct 20, 2006
  • Winning Bidder Selected:
    Aug 29, 2007
  • Construction Begins:
    Oct 04, 2007
  • Construction Ends:
    Sep 30, 2011

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Winning Bidder

EllisDon Corporation, with financing provided by the Pacific and Western Bank of Canada and the Bank of Nova Scotia. 

Features

  • A new emergency department, three times the size of the former department.
  • A surgical centre with eight new operating rooms and four new procedure rooms.
  • A consolidated maternal infant and child program, offering labour, birthing and pediatric services on one floor.
  • 52 additional acute care beds, increasing the hospital's number of acute care beds by one third.
  • Additional acute mental health programs, ambulatory care and dialysis centre.
  • A bridge connecting the new addition to the existing building.

Community and Green Benefits

  • The hospital's increased capacity improves community access to health care, reduces patient wait times and enhances access to emergency and acute care services.
  • The new facility was designed and built to achieve Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification.

Economic Benefits

  • At the peak of construction, more than 300 construction workers were on the Bluewater Health site daily.

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