b'PROJECT PROFILE1950s ceiling heights also werentvalves and complete tie-ins for the of the project, Parkes says. I was a designed to accommodatenew renovation.manager, but my field guys, they just current HVAC, mechanical androcked this one.communications technology, whichAll of that effort ultimately earned presented another challenge. YouCPH three awards at the 2023 SICAInterior Health is a great client for us cant just flood 30 people in there andIndustry Awards of Excellence thisto work for, and I think any project get it done, emphasizes Parkes. Wepast April: the Healthcare Buildingcan go really well with the right team were coordinating with all of our fiveAward, Institutional Building Awardand the right attitude, he concludes. I sub-trades. Youve got to sit down withand Renovation Building Award. It the electrical and the general contractor,was pretty cool to get the three [awards]definitely would like to thank EllisDon look at routing and coordinatefrom SICA, which was overwhelmingand Interior Health for making it a everything to ensure its going to fit.for sure, but I was such a small partpositive experience.And if there are problems, you RFI [Request for Information] that to the consultants and get that figured out before we got to that point. So its a lot of forecasting and looking ahead, taking down that T-bar and seeing whatsgoing to work, and then looking at alternate routing. Parkes adds that, even with a plan in place, things didnt necessarily play out that way. There were areas where we found efficiencies to shorten someYOU KNOW CONSTRUCTION.runs, to utilize shafts that were in the old hospital a lot more, that maybeWE KNOW CONSTRUCTION LAW.the consultants werent aware of when they did the drawings, he explains. Every day was a What are weEXPERT GUIDANCE. TAILORED SOLUTIONS.dealing with here? kind of thing. OurAlexander Spraggs Rosie Jacobs Andrew Prior Calen Janzensuperintendent was great. He was ableB.A., BCL, LL.B. B.A., J.D. B.A. (Hons), LL.B. B.SC., J.D.to sit down with all of our sub-trades, and no one was able to install anythingwww.pihl.ca|250.762.5434| Kelownawithout it being coordinated, agreed upon and signed off by everybody.The fact that all of this work needed toA RoofStar Guarantee Is Simply Worry-Free.happen while the hospitals emergencyBut some people never learn.operations continued uninterrupted provided additional challenges. Phasing and staging were key to create partial turnover to provide the facility with a prescribed number of emergency patient rooms. According to a CPH handout, Phased turnovers for occupancy meant full commissioning of each partial turnover as the job progressed, which required planning and coordinated shutdowns when tie-ins to infrastructure were being completed for each phase. For example, when tying into the medical gas systems in the project, there was no way of isolating the line, so the604-882-9734 project team needed to temporarilyrcabc.org back-feed the ICU with med gas while the entire system was shut down to add SICA CONSTRUCTION REVIEWFall 202345'