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Innovative Construction Trends for Alberta Healthcare Projects

Explore Alberta Infrastructure's adoption of manufactured walls in healthcare projects, focusing on design, construction, and client acceptance. Learn about the benefits, lessons learned, and next steps in implementing this innovative approach.

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Innovative Construction Trends for Alberta Healthcare Projects

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  1. Manufactured Construction Alberta Infrastructure’s Perspective on Current Trends • Canadian Center for Healthcare Facilities

  2. Health Facilities Branch introduces Manufactured Walls to an Edmonton Health project Alberta Infrastructure delivers Health Facility Projects over $5 million for Alberta Health Services / Alberta Health Northern Alberta Urology Center is a fit-out of a vacant floor in the existing Kaye Edmonton Clinic. NAUC will provide state of the art urology care in an academic environment and will establish a single point of entry allowing for an integrated approach to assessment, diagnosis, education, treatment, follow-up, and support for urology services. 

  3. Drivers of Change Alberta Infrastructure’s new DESIGN PRINCIPALS for PUBLICLY FUNDED INFRASTRUCTURE • Functionality • Sustainability • Flexibility & Adaptability • Affordability & Form

  4. Drivers of Change Government of Alberta’s Climate Leadership Plan • Infrastructure funding will target outcomes that focus on measurable reductions in greenhouse gas emission. • Program Design is currently being developed with the ministries of Infrastructure, Transportation and Municipal Affairs.

  5. Drivers of Change • Northern Alberta Urology Centre had an aggressive schedule to retain donor funding. • Alberta was experiencing limited trade coverage for drywall tenders.

  6. Choosing NAUC to pilot Manufactured Construction • Half of the project space had repeated room designs such physicians office, clinical staff work rooms and exam rooms. • The Kaye Edmonton Clinic is designed for clinic spaces. • The project chose to have the walls constructed with conduit, but not wired by manufacturer to insure CSA Z32 requirements were met.

  7. Project Implementation – Client Acceptance Infrastructure had to get the client to understand new technology: • Perception of limitations based on standard office cubicle products. • Infection Prevention and Control benefits during construction. • Ability to adapt to changing needs over the lifetime of a facility. • Maintenance benefits especially due to flood incidents.

  8. Project Implementation - Design • Glazing features were readily added to increase borrowed light in the clinic.

  9. Project Implementation - Design • Designer quickly utilized DIRTT functionality in design • Glazing features were readily added to increase borrowed light in the clinic.

  10. Project Implementation - Design

  11. Project Implementation - Design

  12. Project Implementation - Design

  13. Project Implementation - Design

  14. Project Implementation - Design

  15. Project Implementation - Design

  16. Project Implementation - Design

  17. Project Implementation - Design

  18. Project Implementation - Construction • MEP + Ceiling in, base building painted, flooring down.

  19. Project Implementation - Construction • Pre-Engineered walls arrive on site

  20. Project Implementation - Construction • All the Flooring was down and the placement for each panel was labeled.

  21. Project Implementation - Construction • Wide open environment for the trades to work in

  22. Project Implementation - Construction • Walls on site, ready for tilt up construction.

  23. Project Implementation - Construction • Clean construction for the interior

  24. Project Implementation - Construction • Clean construction for the interior

  25. Project Implementation - Construction • Level II Electrical in the walls

  26. Project Implementation - Construction • First day of installation

  27. Project Implementation - Construction • All walls were up within 48 hours.

  28. Next Steps – Finish the Project

  29. Next Steps – Finish the Project

  30. Other Benefits founds to date • Easy to add Graphic feature walls

  31. Other Benefits founds to date • Easy to add Graphic feature walls

  32. Graphics were utilized on another project Stollery Pediatric Ambulatory Clinic Utilized system to get a feature wall finished within schedule and budget.

  33. Lessons Learned to date • Can’t back this in – need to be at SD and everyone needs to be supportive of IPD and a new construction methodology. • Shop drawing review process was intensive for designer and project teams. • Review still did not catch all instances of utilities being run through glazing. • Coordination issues that are normally addressed on site during typical steel stud construction were not discovered until connections were attempted.

  34. Lessons learned to date - Continued • Installers were not prepared for construction in an active healthcare facility. • Still need to address user perception of quality prior to seeing installation. • Users are concerned that floor wax will not be under walls.

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