STURGEON COMMUNITY HOSPITAL, EMERGENCY AND AMBULATORY CARE EXPANSION PROJECT, St. Albert, Alberta
Posted by Allan Partridge on October 7th, 2008
This 50,000 square foot addition and 20,000 square foot renovation to the existing 1990s Sturgeon Community Hospital has been recently designed by HIP Architects and is heading into the working drawings and construction stages. This project will provide a 25 percent new space for emergency treatment and day support services space for the St. Albert and outlying areas of the Edmonton region that have experienced expanding levels of population growth far-exceeding the original hospital growth projections.
The design of the expanded emergency department facilities follows a detailed programming review with site and regional advisors an extensive analysis of existing site constraints in an increasingly complicated and dense urban environment and after a review of the most current facilities and leading emergency care practices throughout the United States and Canada. The new emergency department will reduce visitor waiting time and anxiety by providing growth space to support 60,000 visitors per year from existing rated capacity of 28,000 visitors per year. The organization and layout will direct users to specialized sub-treatment units within the department based on their specific acuity and health care needs.
This project is expected to be constructed through several overlapping building addition and renovation phases through a well-orchestrated plan that has been developed by HIP Architects, the construction manager and the site administrators in order to permit the continued operation of the facility during construction.
A primary objective for this project was to create clearly-identifiable and easily-accessed entries to the three main service components located on this emerging health campus – the main acute care hospital building (1990s), the recently clinic services building (completed in 2004 also designed by HIP Architects) and the new emergency department. The building additions respect the form and exterior finishes of the existing buildings and new additions to create an integrated and cohesive image to the health services campus.
Randy Krebes Architect, AAA, MRAIC, is the partner-in-charge and coordinating professional of record for this project.