Royal Columbian Hospital’s new 75-bed mental health centre, energy centre and IT communications hub will come with a $200 million price tag, according to the company in charge of the project.
Bird Design-Build Construction Inc. announced Wednesday it has finalized a contract with Fraser Health to build those parts of the first phase of the New Westminster health care facility’s three-phase redevelopment.
The health authority picked Bird as its preferred proponent for the job in late December.
Construction will begin in “early 2017” and be completed in winter 2019, according to a company press release.
The new, 13,000-square-metre, four-storey, 75-bed mental health and substance use centre will replace the aging 30-bed Sherbrooke Centre, which was originally built as a nursing dormitory.
The mental health building will target LEED Gold certification and include a two-level bridge link to the existing hospital, with one level for patient movement and the other for hospital services, according to Bird.
The building will have a multi-level, 450-stall parkade.
The energy centre, meanwhile, has been designed to support the existing campus, the new mental health building and future proposed redevelopment phases.
It will also house an IT communication hub designed to support the hospital’s future information technology infrastructure.
