Infrastructure Ontario announced on March 10 that the Development Phase of work on the Peter Gilgan Mississauga Hospital is now underway.

This initial phase of the project calls for development partner ED+PCL Healthcare Partners to build out the project requirements and design, schedule, pricing, and risk parameters for the massive project.

Infrastructure Ontario (IO) and Trillium Health Partners (THP) signed the development phase agreement with ED+PCL Healthcare Partners in September after the joint venture between EllisDon and PCL Constructors – two of Canada’s largest construction companies – was the only entity to respond to the project’s request for proposals.

The ED+PCL Healthcare Partners team also includes Parkin Architects, Adamson Associates and Jodine Lamarre Pratte Architects.

The Peter Gilgan Mississauga Hospital project is being delivered using a progressive public-private partnership approach which fosters a collaborative development of project requirements, design, pricing, schedule, and risk management.

The project scope of work calls for a full replacement of the existing Mississauga Hospital site, replacing it with a modern health care facility that is designed to meet the community’s growing and changing health care needs. The project calls for construction of one of the largest emergency departments in the province, a surgical platform that provides flexibility to adapt to changing patient needs and new technologies, including an increase in the number of surgical operating rooms with specialized equipment and advanced imaging systems, as well as a new parking structure, pharmacy and clinical laboratory.

ED+PCL Healthcare Partners will now work collaboratively with IO and THP under the development phase agreement, as well as with the Ministry of Health, to continue to advance the design and confirm fixed pricing.

Once the development phase is complete, it is expected that ED+PCL Healthcare Partners will enter into a fixed-price project agreement with THP to finalize design, build, finance and maintain the project.

IO’s latest P3 Market Update document values the project at more than $2 billion.