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ROYAL INLAND HOSPITAL PATIENT CARE TOWER PROJECT
EllisDon Infrastructure Team
Respondent team lead: EllisDon Capital Inc.
Equity providers: EllisDon Capital Inc.
Design-Builder: EllisDon Infrastructure
Architect: Parkin Architects Ltd./Kasian Architects
Service Provider: EllisDon Facility Services Inc.
Total Cost: $417.2 million
Ministry of Health and Interior Health: $225.2 million
Thompson Regional Hospital District: $172 million
Royal Inland Hospital Foundation: $20 million
JERALD WALLISER
Completed in July 2022,
the Phil & Jennie Gaglardi
Tower at Royal Inland
Hospital serves residents
in Kamloops, but just
as importantly, the
surrounding region as well.
along with commuting partners, since so many workers
traveled from outside the Kamloops area, mostly from
B.C.’s lower mainland and Alberta.
“If one worker tested positive, we knew not only the
people he worked with, but who he lived with, which
really allowed us to navigate the pandemic because we
had people commuting together. So, we had to really
understand exactly our employees lives during the construction process to limit major outbreaks on the project,”
says Highton.
“When the fires happened there was a desperate need
for housing for evacuees, so we asked our workers to free
up the accommodations that they were in to house people
displaced by the fires, which again led to manpower challenges, but all of which we were able to work through.”
RENEWCANADA.NET
“The main need for this [project] was an update to
meet the clinical standard of care, giving residents
improved access to health-care services in a
modern, state-of-the-art facility.”
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