A LONG TIME COMING Construction continues on the Dr. Everett Chalmers Regional Hospital project in Fredericton
The Dr. Everett Chalmers Regional Hospital in Fredericton is currently undergoing an expansion project which is set to be completed in 2027.
The project entails a three-storey addition on the south end of the building, a one-storey 1,693-square-metre addition on the west side, and a new east entrance vestibule addition.
A hospital in Fredericton is getting a
The project entails a three-storey
2023. There are three more tender
much-needed upgrade.
addition on the south end of the
packages yet to be issued.
Construction started on an expansion and modernization of the Dr. Everett Chalmers Regional Hospital (DECRH) in Fredericton in the summer of 2016 and is expected to be completed in 2027. The original hospital was built in the mid-'70s and is one of the various
building, a one-storey 1,693-squaremetre addition on the west side, and a new east entrance vestibule addition. The expansion also includes adding more parking to the site, updating the emergency generator facility, and mechanical and electrical systems upgrades.
hospitals currently under renovation across the province.
The south addition development, which started construction in 2016, will provide a new surgical suite. There will be 10 new operating rooms, a new maternal newborn and gynecology services area, and a surgical daycare unit. On the bottom floor there will also be a medical device
Construction for the project has been
reprocessing department for cleaning
broken up into various tenders. To date,
and sterilization. In addition, vacated
“We are undergoing modernization
there have been 12 separate tender
space due to departmental relocation
and expansion of a few of our hospitals
packages that have been issued and
to both additions will be renovated to
which are of the same vintage,” says
awarded. Currently under construction
accommodate ambulatory procedures,
Bob Daigle, executive director of design
is a contract for the 14,993-square-
maternal gynecology assessment/
and construction with the buildings
metre south addition, including the
triage and birthing areas, maternal
division for the Department of
foundations and steel, a contract for
newborn gynecology clinics, and
Transportation and Infrastructure for
the building enclosure to finish the
therapeutic services. There will also be
the Government of New Brunswick.
roof and exterior walls, and the main
renovations for other existing hospital
“There really is a need to expand that
contract to do the entire fit up and
spaces and a new 287-square-metre
hospital; it’s at capacity, and we need to
completion of the building, which is
standalone service building that will
grow it.”
expected to be completed in August
be constructed to accommodate the
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