Robbins Pavilion, Royal Alex Hospital
The Royal Alexandra Hospital (RAH) is one of Capital Health’s largest hospitals. This 700 bed facility offers medical and surgical services stretching from Edmonton’s downtown to western and northern Canada.
The new Robbins Pavilion (33,296 m2) will add 291 beds to the RAH which will brings the total bed count to approximately 1,000 beds. Robbins Pavilion will house the Lois Hole Hospital for Women, which is a “hospital within a hospital” that will provide leading-edge women’s health programs, research and education. Also housed will be the Learning Center which includes a lecture auditorium, classrooms and other facilities. In addition to the Lois Hole Hospital for Women, the Robbins Pavilion will also house Cardiac Services and additional inpatient beds for Medicine and Surgery.
Hemisphere Engineering are the mechanical and electrical engineering consultants.
As part of the electrical design consultant’s responsibility for this project, Hemisphere organized and led a special design process for integrated communications and technology design which included all user interfaced systems. This design process involved end users in defining functionality required and then involved owners facility and support personnel in defining the components (pieces) which were to be utilized to deliver the defined functionality. At the conclusion of the ICT process, Hemisphere Engineering produced documentation for competitive tender of the selected configurations.
Valued at $186M is scheduled for completion in 2008.
