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Women’s College Hospital Redevelopment

Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Developer:Bilfinger Berger Project Investments
Architects: Perkins Eastman Black/IBI Group
Construction: The Walsh Group/Bondfield

Women’s College Hospital Expansion was a five year, $460 million design-build-finance-maintain rebuilding project for the leading North American facility for women’s healthcare, research, and education. The Women’s College Hospital Redevelopment project involved the construction of a new 420,000 sq. ft. ambulatory care facility on the existing hospital site in downtown Toronto. A new state of-the-art building, opened in 2015, replaces all existing buildings and allowed for the consolidation of most hospital services in one location. This resulted in significant energy and operational savings.

The new facility was designed to support the delivery of an entirely new model of advanced care based on an ambulatory approach. This ground breaking approach help women live healthier day-to-day lives through prevention and illness management, without requiring overnight hospitalization. Construction was completed in two phases: The first phase involved the construction of a clinical tower on the eastern half of the hospital site. During phase two, completed in 2016, the existing hospital was demolished and a new administrative, research & education wing was constructed on the site’s western half.

HGC provided comprehensive acoustical consulting services for this project including vibration testing of newly installed medical diagnostic and imaging systems in the clean room environments of the completed surgical areas of the hospital expansion.

Acoustical consulting services delivered:

  • Environmental Noise and Vibration Studies
  • Building Services Noise and Vibration control (HVAC Systems, Pumps, Compactors, Generators, etc)
  • Vibration Isolation of Sensitive Equipment
  • Acoustical Privacy Between patient care areas, offices, labs, operating rooms etc.
  • Structural Vibration Assessment
  • Auditorium Acoustics
  • Sound transmission class (STC) Testing

Team Members

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Brian ChapnikPEng, BASc, MASc, PhD

Principal Acoustical Consultant

Brian is an expert in achieving acoustical privacy and sound intelligibility goals of difficult acoustic spaces such as those found in corporate office towers and luxury high-rise condominiums.

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Brian HoweMEng, MBA, LLM, PEng

Principal Acoustical Consultant

Brian has specialized expertise in the areas of wind turbine noise, structural and groundborne vibration, and has undertaken major research projects relating to transportation noise and vibration.

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Ian BonsmaBASc, INCE, PEng

Senior Acoustical Consultant, Manager Western Region

As HGC’s Western Region Manager, based in Calgary, Ian leads many acoustical consulting projects in Alberta, British Columbia, Saskatchewan and select regions of the United States.

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Petr Chocensky

Senior Acoustical Consultant

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Darryl McCumberBASc, PEng

Senior Acoustical Consultant

Darryl ’s expertise cover a variety of projects including architectural acoustical design of buildings, environmental noise and vibration studies, and noise control of equipment.

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