ASHRAE Society Technology Award, Category III - Health Care Facilities (2016-2017)
Engineering News Record, Global Best Project (2016)
Toronto Construction Association Large Project Achievement, Best of the Best Award (2015)
Canadian Council for Public-Private Partnerships, National Awards for Innovation and Excellence - Gold (2015)
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The greenest acute care facility in North America.
Serving more than 850,000 residents in the Greater Toronto Area, the 1.8-million square foot Humber River Hospital is one of Canada's largest regional acute care facilities. The 656-bed hospital provides a wide range of acute medical services to its patients and families, including emergency, medical / surgical care, mental health, bariatric, diagnostic imaging, dialysis, and cancer care services.
The project was designed and constructed over a period of 44 months through Infrastructure Ontario's Alternative Financing and Procurement Design-Build-Finance-Maintain (DBFM) process. A vision for a "lean, green, and digital" health care facility design was established by the hospital's Board of Directors and senior management team, with a goal of reinventing patient care.
The greenest acute care facility in North America.
Serving more than 850,000 residents in the Greater Toronto Area, the 1.8-million square foot Humber River Hospital is one of Canada's largest regional acute care facilities. The 656-bed hospital provides a wide range of acute medical services to its patients and families, including emergency, medical / surgical care, mental health, bariatric, diagnostic imaging, dialysis, and cancer care services.
The project was designed and constructed over a period of 44 months through Infrastructure Ontario's Alternative Financing and Procurement Design-Build-Finance-Maintain (DBFM) process. A vision for a "lean, green, and digital" health care facility design was established by the hospital's Board of Directors and senior management team, with a goal of reinventing patient care.
Building systems (including heating, cooling, ventilation, plumbing, and lighting) were pushed to a higher level in order to meet the hospital's target of exceeding ASHRAE 90.1-2007 by 40.8%. To meet this target, many options were analyzed during the design process. These options were modelled by the design team's energy modeller, using eQUEST v3-64 to show compliance with the energy target. A separate energy modeller was employed by the facility management team to compare different energy efficiency measures along with their life cycle costs.
The energy-efficient design included novel approaches, such as an integrated heating and cooling plan with highly-efficient ventilation equipment and distribution, air side enthalpy recovery, enhanced building envelope design that incorporates automatically-adjusting electrochromic glass to reduce solar gain during peak cooling times, and a lighting design featuring controls accessed via the patient bedside computer terminal (which achieves a lighting power density 46% lower than ASHRAE 90.1-2007 requirements.
