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The design and construction of the TECK Acute Care Center at the hospital will include an eight-story , 540,000-square-feet building that houses inpatient units , an emergency department , medical imaging , procedural suites , hematology / oncology department and a pediatric intensive care units for BC Children ’ s Hospital . It will also include high-risk labour and delivery suite and a new neonatal intensive care unit for BC Women ’ s Hospital & Health Care Centre .
On top of the highly technical scope of work , the project is targeting LEED Gold Certification .
“ The suspended slabs are underway , and on target for our summer 2017 project completion ” said Hrdlitschka . “ We have two cranes on the project now , and a third will be erected on site next month .”
Despite the project ’ s complexity and multiple stakeholders , it is on schedule .
New Challenges Ledcor has built retail stores and hirises for Shaw Communications , and is currently finishing construction on the Shaw Data Centre in Calgary .
CONSTRUCTION
The $ 130 million project , which is expected to be completed later this month , will encompass construction of a 250,000 square foot facility along with an extremely sophisticated mechanical electrical system .
“ The data center has to operate 24 / 7 . For this project , it was essential to have huge backup generators that provide power to the entire building and specifically the mechanical system and its cooling towers to continue to create the cooling capacity that can handle up to 24 million BTUs of heat generation ,” said Hrdlitschka .
“ When you think of BTUs , the big construction heaters generate a million BTUs . This electrical system and its components including the Server Rooms housed within the Data Center technically generate the effect of 24 million of these heaters . This amount of cooling required provided by the cooling towers is equivalent to using 35,000 household refrigerators .”
One of Ledcor ’ s largest projects under construction is the TFN Mills Shopping Centre in Delta for Ivanhoe Cambridge . Due for completion in
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