Bill Algeo, a building technologist at Health Sciences Centre, Winnipeg, explains how the HSC’s Facility Management Department played a key role in providing input and expertise for a redevelopment project that is seeing the creation of a new Women’s Hospital in the Canadian city, located in the state of Manitoba.
Designed with patients and families in mind, the new Women’s Hospital at Health Sciences Centre (HSC) Winnipeg will be the city’s most comprehensive facility for women’s healthcare when it opens (anticipated in the Autumn of 2019). The 400,000 ft2 building will include 173 beds, and feature a family birthing place that includes a state-ofthe-art labour and delivery unit, as well as a neonatal intensive care unit. It will also have private space for oncology and palliative care patients.
HSC’s Facility Management (FM) Department has been involved in the Women’s Hospital redevelopment project from the earliest stages of design. This integrated approach is now common practice for new-builds at HSC. The benefit is that all stakeholders are allowed to provide real-world responses so that changes can be made early on, reducing the risk of costly amendments at the later design and construction stages. For instance, FM provided feedback from users in existing HSC buildings so that design shortcomings could be avoided, such as the use of a single thermostat to control two or more spaces with different occupancies.
Drawing and specification stage
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