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Plans for British Columbia's future Teck Acute Care Centre
showcase an expansive public-private partnership project with
an eye on the patient and family experience
By Jennifer Kovacs Silvis

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intensive care unit for BC Children's as well as a highrisk birthing center and NICU for BC Women's.
With a $676 million price tag, the project sets out
to use evidence-based design and Lean approaches
to optimize care delivery and create a patient- and
family-centered environment.
Those goals are illustrated in initiatives such as the
creation of clearly delineated on-stage and off-stage
areas for circulation throughout the facility, numerous
outdoor gardens and views to nature, and a keen focus
on sustainable design to create flexible spaces that
require few, if any, structural changes to be reconfigured.
And in a nod to its locale, the project boasts a significant use of wood in recognition of British Columbia's
Wood First Act, which requires wood to be considered
as the primary building material in all new publicly
funded buildings in the province.
Construction is expected to begin in winter 20142015, with a completion scheduled for winter 2017-2018.
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Jennifer Kovacs Silvis is executive editor of Healthcare
Design. She can be reached at jsilvis@vendomegrp.com.

The colors of the glass fins
on the building's exterior are
repeated inside as part of the
project's interior design and
wayfinding strategies. Inside,
wood was also used as a
significant design element in
response to British Columbia's
Wood First Act.

STUDIO 216 (LOBBY); NEILSON DIGITAL (EXTERIOR)

A three-phase redevelopment project at BC Children's
Hospital and BC Women's Hospital + Health Centre in
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, is covering a lot
of ground with its scope and objectives, not to mention the comprehensive project team behind it.
The future Teck Acute Care Centre will be constructed under a public-private partnership agreement, with Affinity Partnerships selected to design,
build, finance, and maintain the building over 30 years.
Members of the Affinity Partnerships team include
ZGF Architects LLP (Seattle) and CEI Architecture
(Vancouver, Canada) as the design team, with Balfour
Beatty Investments and Ledcor Design Build delivering construction services, and Balfour Beatty Communities and Black & McDonald Ltd. providing facility
management.
The 640,000-square-foot, eight-story building will
house medical/surgical inpatient units, an emergency
department, medical imaging and procedural suites,
a hematology/oncology department, and a pediatric

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