Bird Construction Inc. says Fraser Health has selected Bird Design-Build Construction Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary, as the preferred proponent to design and build a new $259 million mental health facility and energy centre at Royal Columbian Hospital in New Westminster, B.C.
The new 75-bed Mental Health and Substance Use (MHSU) wellness centre will be a four-storey building with approximately 13,000 sq. m., providing both inpatient and outpatient services. The MHSU building will include a two-level bridge link to the existing hospital with one level for patient movement and the other for hospital services. In addition, the building will have a multi-level 450 stall parkade to service the campus.
The energy centre is designed to support the needs of the existing campus in addition to the new MHSU building and is sized to support future proposed redevelopment phases. It will also house an IT communication hub which is designed to support Royal Columbian Hospital’s future information technology infrastructure requirements.
The project, targeting LEED Gold certification is expected to commence construction in early 2017 and be completed in winter 2019.
