Project Management Award of Excellence
CHUSJ Phase 2 Redevelopment CIMA+
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Growing up healthy Phase 2 of CHUSJ’s ‘growing up healthy’ program involved the transformation of some parts of an aging building into modern premises, providing the infrastructure necessary to better meet the needs of mothers and children. The program involved the redevelopment of more than 11,000 m2 over a five-year period, at a cost of nearly $100 million, for a total of nearly 400,000 hours of on-site work. The pharmacy, blood bank, orthopedics and teaching services units underwent a complete redevelopment, while the mother-child care unit was modernized. New mechanical rooms were added to support the installations and ensure systems’ reliability. CIMA+ oversaw planning, procurement, control and monitoring of costs and schedules, risk manage58
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ment, construction management, health and safety management, equipment logistics management and transfer to operations. The facility was built in the 1950s, which made it complex to carry out the project, particularly in terms of meeting environmental control requirements and co-existing with major asset maintenance work. With the building being occupied, the work needed to be phased and temporary systems installed to maintain care activities and respond to unforeseen site conditions. CIMA+’s project management team ensured the work was completed on time and budget. Despite many unforeseen events, they delivered the program with a cost variance of only 2.82%. Completing the demolition phase before finalizing drawings and specifications reduced the risk relating to those unforeseen events, while the phasing of the project—co-ordinated upstream to
minimize the impact on clients—allowed for more competition among contractors. Sustainable development While respecting the physical integrity of the existing structure, CHUSJ wanted durable, low-maintenance materials similar to those used in its new building. Therefore, all construction documents were drafted to meet the same standards as for the expansion phase, which had earned Leadership in Energy and Environmental Development (LEED) Gold certification from the Canada Green Building Council (CaGBC) in 2016 for the specialized unit building. CIMA+’s team provided two new modern mechanical rooms to support the existing infrastructure and new spaces and to allow for future redevelopments. The efficient equipment for these rooms has enabled CHUSJ to optimize its energy consumption on an annual basis, September/October 2023
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IMA+ offered complete project management services to the Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Sainte-Justine (CHUSJ), a major pediatric centre in Montreal, for the redevelopment and modernization of spaces left vacant following the relocation of certain departments to a new specialized unit building. Since the project was launched in 2017, the firm has worked in partnership with the health-care institution to provide functional spaces better-suited to current medical practices.
