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Two years ago, a 15-metre hole sat at the bottom of the new St. Paul’s Hospital site in Vancouver. Today, a sprawling hospital soars 11-storeys high with bridges connecting the East and West towers.
“We poured the final concrete on the roof and topped out the building this summer; it looks great,” says Kevin Little, senior manager for Design & Project Delivery with the New St. Paul’s Hospital Project Team. “This is a significant achievement and brings us one step closer to delivering a world-class hospital that will serve our community for generations to come.”
With the hospital now standing at full height, crews are busy working on exterior finishes and interior drywall and major equipment work for the rest of 2024; then it’s onto interior finishes and landscaping. The hospital will open to patients in 2027.
“It’s truly been a collaborative effort between our project team and our design-build partner, PCL Construction, to keep this massive project on time and on budget,” says Little.
The $2.3-billion New St. Paul’s Hospital project is No. 37 on ReNew Canada’s 2024 Top100 Projects report.
It takes an enormous team to bring this 548-bed capacity hospital to life. Currently, 1,400 tradespeople work on site each day, equivalent to the population of a small village like Lions Bay. That number is expected to swell to 1,600 at the peak of construction. By the time construction completes in 2026, PCL estimates that more than 10,000 tradespeople will have worked on the hospital at one time or another.
“This is the largest project I’ve ever worked on,” says Ryan Burns, a foreman with PCL. “There’s a lot of technology going into different parts of the hospital that many people haven’t worked on before, so it’s a really good learning opportunity for everyone on the project.” |
