b'Photos courtesy of PCL Constructors Canada Inc.the primary architect, and the city toAttesting to the complexity, PCLLocal architectural firm ft3 won the develop a temporary corridor solution.has worked hand in hand with ft3,successful design bid for the expansion/These corridors, through the activeSMS Engineering, Crosier Kilgourreno project. With our experience on construction zone, were built with full lifeEngineering, Sison Blackburn, Colliersemergency departments, we were very safety measures. A typical job has oneProject Leaders, Shared Health, SBHpleased to have the chance to design occupancy permit, but this job had five.and the Winnipeg Regional Healththe new SBH ED, says ft3 Principal The city has been great to work with Authority (WRHA). Taferner says mostJerald Peters. We knew SBH was an they fully understand the importanceof these companies and governmentolder hospital with lots of moving parts, of the St. Boniface Hospital and what itagencies had representatives on site onbut the key to the projects success provides to the community. a weekly basis. was the collaborative atmosphere. You simply need that kind of collegiality to From an architectural standpoint, theThe project was a fresh slateweovercome obstacles as they present and renovated and expanded ED spacewiped it clean and started from themove forward. During the initial design will have improved staff and patientground up. But because we were tyingstage, we came up with some strategies workflows and provide overall higherinto an existing facility, there wasnt ason phasinghow things would remain functionality. Some of the more notablemuch freedom as youd expect, like onopen for patients and how ambulances design features include a barrier-freea new build, he adds. A stand-alonewould continue to access. As PCL got work space, private examination roomsgenerator, dedicated to the new SBHmore involved on site, they came up with and even a public-use outdoor garden.ED, was installed at the west end oftheir own strategies and we merged our Also, given the recent experiencethe campus. But to bring power from itthinking with their thinking, found the with COVID-19 worldwide, the new EDrequired four conduits and 250 metresbest solution and moved forward.will include a designated pandemicof careful and precise direction drillingWe started with the philosophy of response system. It will allow for theunder the hospital. Everything we do hashow to go about improving the patient immediate isolation of defined zonessome sort of effect or potential impactexperience and never lost sight of that within the ED, as well as an increasedon the operations of the hospital fundamental principle, Peters adds. number of individual isolation rooms. at large. For example, virtually all of the patient Trans-West Process Solutions has been a key provider of process equipment to the industry for over 50 years. Trans-West provides process controls & automation equipment to sectors such as the Pulp & Paper, Mining, Water Treatment, Automation, Fertilizer Manufacturing & numerous other industries.Trans-West Process Solutions126 Bannister Road Winnipeg, MB R2R 0S3 www.LDAeng.ca (204) 783-0100 | transwest-tb.com25 YEARS OF INNOVATION BRINGING STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING TO NEW HEIGHTS46 BUILD MANITOBAwinnipegconstruction.ca'