by Brianna Crandall — April 2, 2014—Arup, an independent firm of designers, planners, engineers, consultants and technical specialists with a reputation for delivering innovative and sustainable designs around the world, recently announced that it is providing full multidisciplinary technical advisory services to the Government of Alberta for the new Calgary Cancer Centre located on the Foothills Medical Centre site. The new cancer center will provide people living in Calgary and southern Alberta with better access to leading-edge cancer care.
As the prime consultant for the technical advisory team, Arup will provide expertise on all disciplines of engineering, master planning, architecture, traffic and transport, information technology (IT), medical equipment, and technical specialties. The project will include a new outpatient facility, an inpatient facility, research space, a bone marrow transplant unit, and advanced diagnostics and treatment incorporating radiation therapy. Construction of the 80-90,000 m2facility is anticipated to commence early in 2016.
Both traditional build and Public-Private-Partnership (P3) options are being reviewed for the procurement of the new cancer center. Whichever option is chosen will be done with the best value for taxpayer dollars in mind, notes Arup. The firm is looking forward to the challenging, collaborative project that it anticipates will bring long-lasting benefits to patients, their families and the wider community.
Arup’s technical advisory team is comprised of local staff from Calgary, healthcare experts from across the Americas including Toronto, Los Angeles and San Francisco, and specialist team members from the United Kingdom. Sub-consultants providing architecture and master planning for the project are major healthcare architect HKS and local Calgary-based Marshall Tittemore Architects (MTA).
Arup’s active global healthcare work includes Kaiser Permanente San Diego Central Hospital, University of California San Francisco Mission Bay campus hospital, and Bumrungrad International Hospital in Bangkok, as well as advisory services for Royal Jubilee Hospital, Patient Care Centre in British Columbia, New Royal Adelaide PPP Hospital in Australia, and the Pembury PFI Hospital in the U.K.
