Project Management Award of Excellence
Calgary Cancer Centre Phases 1 - 3 Arup
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“They closed a very complex hospital project on time and on budget— amazingly, during COVID-19.” – Jury
specialist centre that brings together health care, research and education. There are 63 departments, each with its own stakeholder group. There were also approximately 60 separate building systems that needed to achieve integration and interoperability standards. Arup’s Calgary team managed and co-ordinated a multidisciplinary team of more than 100 people from the firm itself, along with many more from 12 subconsultant teams. The firm developed a 1,200-page requirements document over seven months and five iterations, for which stakeholder reviews generated 1,000-plus comments. A tracker document recorded these comments. This audit trail proved invaluable downstream in providing a record of the history of the document, which Arup continually updated as
change orders were issued. The same approach was used throughout lengthy design package, room mockup and construction submittal reviews. Room data sheets were submitted by the design-builder, outlining such requirements as medical gases, pressurization, air change rate and electrical connections. The 15-day review period for more than 5,000 rooms would have taken over nine months manually, but Arup instead designed an automated process to extract the requirements for each room and match them against the design-builder’s building information modelling (BIM) identification (ID). This only took three days, including checking for any identified discrepancies that needed to be reviewed manually. The new facility was constructed over five-and-a-half years on a busy September/October 2023
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rup was the bridging consultant on the Calgary Cancer Project (recently named the Arthur J.E. Child Comprehensive Cancer Centre), a 127,000-m² facility with 160 inpatient unit beds, more than 100 chemotherapy chairs, 15 radiation therapy vaults, patient exam rooms, specialized research labs and five levels of underground parking. It will replace the Tom Baker Cancer Centre, which was constructed in 1980, renovated in 2000 and reached capacity in 2003. The client, Alberta Infrastructure, sought on-time and on-budget delivery of a world-class comprehensive cancer care facility. Arup provided multidisciplinary consultancy services throughout the project, including developing requirements, supporting design-build procurement, managing compliance through design and construction, conducting site inspections, certifying payments, administering contracts and providing technical advice. The resulting socioeconomic benefits include health outcome improvements and job creation. The $1.4-billion design-build project was delivered in three phases: pre-procurement; procurement; and design and construction. Substantial completion was achieved in November 2022.
