West Park Healthcare Centre achieves substantial completion
Infrastructure Ontario has announced substantial completion construction work on Toronto’s West Park Healthcare Centre.
The milestone marks the end of all major construction and the start of the facility’s 30-year operational term.
The project was built by the EllisDon Infrastructure Healthcare consortium at a cost of $1.2 billion. Work started on site in August 2018, and called for the construction of a six-storey, 730,000-square foot facility to replace the existing hospital building, the demolition of three existing hospital buildings - Main, Ruddy and Gage - as well as existing maintenance buildings, a significant increase in outpatient care space to accommodate current and new services, more green space, and two dedicated tuberculosis pods with separate HVAC systems that can be converted to serve patients with other severe respiratory illnesses should the need arise.
The building has been designed to LEED Silver standards.
West Park will transition to the new hospital over the next few months, with move-in planning to occur through April. Opening day is expected in spring 2024.