b'PROJECT PROFILEEXPLORATIVE EXPANSIONP E N T I C T O N R E G I O N A L H O S P I TA L R E N O V AT I O N TA K E S H O M E T H R E E S I C A A W A R D SBY KELLY PARKERhe Penticton Regionaland mechanical systems. The biggestsuperintendent often couldnt tell what T Hospital recently underwenthurdle with those systems was just itvalve worked or not, or even what Phase Two of a renovationbeing an existing hospital, says Projectthe system was. They didnt have project to expand the emergencyManager Shawn Parkes of Christmanidentification like we have nowadays, department into a space almost fourPlumbing & Heating (CPH). Unlesshe explains, so it was very unique that times its initial size. New spaces createdwalls are opened up or ceilings are takenway, and scary at times. A line could in the $9.6-million project includedown, you dont know what yourebe functioning in another room, which individual patient exam rooms, isolationdealing with. Wed find piping andwas a little nerve wracking, but after rooms, a trauma bay, new canopyservices in the ceiling space that no onewe got into the groove, our confidence coverage for the ambulance bay, neweven knew what they did, so it was a lotgrew. Thats why we might have five utility rooms and a mental healthof investigative, explorative work. Idguys there instead of 15 or 20 guystreatment area. say at least 50 per cent of the time wasbecause it needed to be controlled and [spent on] explorative work byThe 40,000-sq.-ft. project provedmy superintendent.monitored, and we always had to have complex because the hospital was builta back-up plan. One little task would in the 1950s, with renovations andNot only was it often a mystery totake about two days of prepping and additions made in the 1980s. Onefigure out which mechanical componentinvestigative work to make sure that we particular challenge involved the HVACdid what, but Parkes adds that thewere doing the right thing.Photos courtesy of Christman Plumbing & Heating Ltd.44 SOUTHERN INTERIOR CONSTRUCTION ASSOCIATION'