Project Summary

Client
Providence Health Care

Budget
$1.7 Billion

Services
Quality and Inspections Services

Market
Infrastructure

Project Description

Built in 1894, the downtown Vancouver-based St. Paul’s Hospital started to reveal its limitations as a structure and health facility at the turn of the 21st century.  Recognizing the need for a vast overhaul and upgrade, Providence Health Care acquired an 18.38-acre parcel of land in 2004 for a new hospital and health campus, which is the largest hospital redevelopment in British Columbia history.

Scheduled for a 2027 opening, the new St. Paul’s will include several new features, just a few of which include:

  • Site infrastructure (on-site and offsite) work required by the City of Vancouver, including roads and site servicing, connection to a Neighborhood Energy Utility (NEU), resilience and sustainability infrastructure, and soils remediation;
  • Core hospital development of the Acute Care Centre and Outpatient Care Centre.;
  • Clinical Support and Research Centre.

Our Role

RAM was retained to provide compliance quality monitoring and inspection services on behalf of the Owner for the new St. Paul’s Hospital project. Our team’s responsibilities included:

  • Representing the Owner on all matters regarding quality;
  • Reviewing of all quality management, design, and construction documentation;
  • Identifying compliance failure events;
  • Performing of quality assurance audits as required;
  • Conducting field reviews and QA inspections;
  • Overseeing the determination and correction of deficiencies.

Project Highlights

This project presented RAM with a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to participate in the historical construction of an innovative new hospital & health campus from the ground up.  We expect the new St. Paul’s will actively serve Metro Vancouver and British Columbia for another 133 years.

Some key highlights:

• This was the largest redevelopment project in B.C.’s history;
• There has been a concentrated effort throughout the planning and construction stages to focus on sustainability and resiliency by minimizing omissions;
•  The new building is approximately twice the size of the current hospital on Burrard Street;
• It was built to withstand rising temperatures, extreme weather, seismic activity, and predicted sea level rise.