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The Abbotsford Regional Hospital and Cancer Centre (ARHCC) has played a key role in delivering healthcare to over 600,000 residents across the Fraser Valley since its opening in 2008. As part of its ongoing commitment to providing life-saving care, ARHCC embarked on a comprehensive upgrade of its aging nurse call system.

A nurse call system is an essential communications tool that enables patients to alert nursing staff when assistance is needed. These systems play a vital role in patient safety by facilitating rapid emergency responses, tracking call activity, and prioritizing urgent needs. Comprised of call buttons, notification devices, and central consoles, the nurse call system is designed to streamline patient care and improve overall healthcare efficiency.

Through the Nurse Call Replacement Project, ARHCC reinforces its commitment to safe, high-quality care and effective medical response.

OUR SCOPE

Our scope of work involved replacing the aging nurse call system with a more advanced and reliable solution. This included upgrades to dome lights, patient stations, bathroom pull cords, staff consoles, staff duty stations, and system infrastructure wiring. Each patient station now features specialized buttons, such as Code Blue and Staff Emergency call buttons, to support rapid staff response.

A major infrastructure improvement was the upgrade of the hall bus – the backbone of the system. It uses a daisy-chain method to link patient stations and devices to the central communications network. As part of this process, the backbone was updated and fully integrated to create a cohesive system. This integration unifies call event responses across disparate hospital locations through a central interface.

Key system enhancements also included upgrades to the communications rooms, network switches, and station gateways that drive the nurse call system. Each gateway supports two loops of network and power, connecting to the dome light hallway bus throughout the facility. Since each dome light is individually connected to a gateway, the number of supported connections per gateway is limited. This required careful planning and execution to ensure the system’s reliability and capacity. The work was completed in stages, enabling us to upgrade the old hardware without disrupting the hospital’s day-to-day operations.

One of the primary challenges of this project was installing the new system while keeping the hospital fully operational, due to the life-safety nature of the nurse call system. To mitigate any risks, we set up infection control tents equipped with polyplastic sheeting and magnets. Negative air vacuum systems were also utilized in sensitive zones, such as inpatient care and cancer treatment areas, to maintain critical air quality standards. This project was particularly challenging due to the complexity of working within an active healthcare environment.

collaboration & success

Thanks to the collaboration between our Security & Healthcare Technology team and our Planning Team, we successfully executed the project with minimal disruption. A key factor in this success was our ability to highlight the importance of upgrading the system before failure occurred. This accomplishment reinforces our team’s expertise and ability to deliver high-quality results in complex healthcare environments. It ensures the hospital remains fully equipped to continue providing critical care to its patients.

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The BC Cancer centre at the Royal Inland Hospital campus in Kamloops is a new, state-of-the-art healthcare facility that will provide people in BC’s Interior with expanded access to cancer care closer to home. As part of BC’s 10-Year Cancer Action Plan, this new five-storey facility will blend advanced cancer care with Indigenous culture through a patient-centric design.

Located adjacent to Royal Inland Hospital, the new centre will include a dedicated space for radiation treatment, radiation therapy planning, including a CT Simulator, an outpatient ambulatory care unit with 10 exam rooms, two consultation rooms for radiation therapy services, an additional MRI suite, and patient arrival and check-in areas.

In addition to the cancer centre, there will also be upgrades to the community oncology clinic within Royal Inland Hospital. These upgrades will modernize the space and increase the number of cancer treatment spaces and exam rooms.

The new BC Cancer centre will showcase our in-house expertise in delivering complex electrical and technology solutions. Our scope of work covers electrical construction, including a 350KW photovoltaic system, along with full IMIT integration of fire alarm systems, structured cabling, nurse call, security and duress systems, access control, CCTV, and Distributed Antenna Systems.

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The New Surrey Hospital and BC Cancer Centre (NSHBCCC) is a state-of-the-art facility designed to transform patient care for the Surrey community and beyond. Combining advanced medical technologies with compassionate care, the NSHBCCC will offer a comprehensive array of services ranging from diagnostics to specialized cancer treatments.

At almost 1,000,000 sq. ft., the facility will house a three-level energy centre, three levels of underground parking, and a ten-level core hospital with an integrated Cancer Centre. The Cancer Centre will offer advanced treatments such as radiation and systemic therapies, molecular imaging, supportive care, and innovative technologies, supporting BC’s 10-Year Cancer Action Plan to address cancer prevention, detection, and treatment.

As a design-build subcontractor, we are leading the impressive scope of electrical work for this all-electric hospital. Our responsibilities include designing and implementing all electrical infrastructure across the project, with support from our Project Planning Services team.

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Cariboo Memorial Hospital (CMH) Redevelopment Project is part of ongoing efforts to enhance healthcare facilities for the Williams Lake and Cariboo-Chilcotin region, ultimately delivering a state-of-the-art hospital to serve rural and remote communities.

At 100,100 square feet, the facility will include a three-story addition and renovations to the existing facility, resulting in the hospital gaining 25 additional beds, bringing the total to 53. The project will also include 36 new medical/surgical units, an inpatient unit for mental health and substance use, and expanded ambulatory care, oncology, and maternity units. Other key additions include a new pharmacy and a sacred interfaith space for traditional healing practices. A new academic space for the UBC Faculty of Medicine will be incorporated, and the hospital’s parking capacity will be increased with 71 new parking stalls.

We are providing building automation solutions for this project, including system controls design and development, full integration, and commissioning. Our scope of work includes the installation of 50,000 feet of conduit, 110,000 feet of cabling, and 400 control boxes, ensuring streamlined and efficient operation across all systems. Additionally, we are integrating the hospital’s existing systems with new controls for HVAC and VAV systems to improve overall performance.

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The Cowichan District Hospital Replacement Project is one of the largest healthcare projects on Vancouver Island, and once completed, it will meet Island Health’s commitment to deliver seamless, patient-centred health services within the Cowichan Valley and its surrounding communities.

Located on the unceded traditional territory of Cowichan Tribes, the project has been designed to incorporate culturally safe spaces to accommodate traditional healing practices, cultural practices, traditional foods, a Gathering Space, Indigenous Kitchen, Indigenous Health department and more room for loved ones to support patients. 

The new hospital will be 56,448 square-metres in size, more than three times larger than the current facility and will have capacity for 204 beds. It will be the first fully electric hospital in BC, being built to LEED Gold® standards, and Canada’s first hospital to achieve Zero Carbon Building – Design™ certification from the Canada Green Building Council. 

As design-assist partners, we’re providing virtual design and construction support (VDC) with BIM 3D modelling technology to ensure our systems integrate seamlessly with the building’s mechanical and architectural features.

Now under construction, our teams are delivering electrical and technology solutions, including electrical distribution, lighting, fire alarm, security, structured cabling, and healthcare technology. Our technology scope includes: access control, video surveillance, intrusion, networks, nurse call, wired duress, RTLS, and public address systems.

The Cowichan District Hospital Replacement Project is being delivered by the Nuts’a’maat Alliance, which includes Island Health, EllisDon Corporation, Parkin Architects, BC Infrastructure Benefits, and Infrastructure BC. For more information on the project, visit www.islandhealth.ca/newcdh.

Renderings are artistic renderings – details are being finalized during design and construction.

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The new 16,684 square-foot emergency department and ICU at G.R. Baker Memorial Hospital provides state-of-the-art healthcare technology, increased capacity, and improved privacy and patient flow that will allow the hospital to continue providing advanced healthcare to Northern BC for generations to come.

The new emergency department includes a triage area, four exam rooms, a two-bay trauma and resuscitation room, an isolation room, a psychiatric observation room, and an ambulance garage. The new ICU has five exam rooms, two of which are designated as isolation rooms, and a private waiting area for families.

Through extreme weather like heat domes and massive snowfalls, we delivered electrical and technology solutions on this project, including electrical distribution, lighting, security systems, structured cabling, and public address systems. This included two new 300kW generators, a highly customizable DALI lighting control system, over 660 luminaires, an upgrade to the existing distribution system, an additional switchboard, 14 distribution panels, two ATSs, and two new transformers.

We also integrated and extended the existing fire alarm system into the new building and managed the nurse call system work performed by the subcontractor, 4th Utility.

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With completion of the new Patient Care Tower in 2022, Interior Health has started working on Phase 2 of the Royal Inland Hospital modernization project. With the goal to continue improving access to healthcare in the region, this phase will involve extensive renovations to expand the emergency department and completing enhancements to the pediatric and post-anesthetic recovery departments, as well as the morgue.

To minimize disruption to ongoing operations at the hospital, our teams are completing construction in phases. As construction management partners, we are delivering a full scope of integrated electrical and technology solutions including electrical distribution, lighting, fire alarm, security, structured cabling, and healthcare technology.

Hospitals require seamless systems integration and our teams will be completing the installation of various systems including access control, CCTV, nurse call, panic, real-time location, public address, wireless access point, and distributed antenna system.

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The Joseph & Rosalie Segal Family Health Centre (JRSFHC) is a new, eight-storey mental health and addictions facility on the Vancouver General Hospital site. Bringing various services under one roof, including inpatient and outpatient care, outreach programs, and addiction services, the facility provides a safer, healthier environment for patients and healthcare professionals. Key features of the hospital include 100 private patient rooms, each with its own ensuite washroom; dedicated family and visitor space; access to outdoor space with secure rooftop gardens for patient gardening; a new public park; exercise facilities; and quiet places on each floor for reading and meditating.

We worked directly with the general contractor on this project to assist with the electrical design and solve multiple challenges which included: working through scope and design changes within the original schedule, logistical difficulties when making deliveries, reduced ceiling space for services, and creating acoustical separation between rooms.

Our team also provided electrical and technology solutions, including electrical distribution, emergency power systems, lighting and lighting control, fire alarm, clock system, structured cabling and communications, distributed antenna system, audiovisual, and security solutions like access control, video surveillance, and real-time locating systems.

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Recognizing the need for better access to healthcare services in the growing region of White Rock and South Surrey, the government announced the Peace Arch Hospital Expansion project. This expansion added 26 new single-patient treatment spaces, five new surgical suites to replace three existing operating rooms, a dedicated mental health and substance abuse waiting and treatment area, a child and family-friendly treatment area, a new Medical Device Reprocessing Department expanded and relocated closer to surgical suites.

Our team provided electrical and technology solutions, including electrical demolition, electrical distribution, lighting, fire alarm, security, structured cabling, communications, and audio-visual work. This included five operating rooms and 50 single-patient treatment spaces.

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Surrey Memorial Hospital is one of BC’s largest hospitals and it continues to serve the fastest growing community in the province. To help increase capacity and quality of health care, this redevelopment project added a new eight-storey, 400,000 square foot critical care tower with an additional 151 beds to serve the growing needs of patients and families in the region.

For this significant project, we worked as a design-assist partner to deliver a full scope of electrical and technology solutions, including electrical distribution and backup power, lighting, fire alarm, security, structured cabling, and healthcare technology. 

A significant aspect of the scope was integrating 30 technology systems with each other and with the existing facility. To overcome this challenge, our in-house technology teams collaborated to develop intricate installation planning and coordination. We also worked with our Prefab team to develop prefabricated assemblies off-site to help optimize the installation and reduce our on-site footprint.