by arslan_ahmed | December 22, 2022 4:14 pm
The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health’s (CAMH) McCain Complex Care and Recovery Centre and the Crisis and Critical Care Building and Mackenzie Health’s Cortellucci Vaughan Hospital have received Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Certification, for sustainability-minded construction.
Both projects utilize materials, green spaces, and design strategies prioritizing sustainable outcomes, and are design-built by PCL Constructors Canada Inc. The McCain Complex Care and Recovery Centre and the Crisis and Critical Care Building are positioned prominently on CAMH’s Queen Street frontage, bringing these LEED Gold-certified buildings into focus on Canada’s largest mental health teaching hospital. The redevelopment project earned 66 points under the LEED v2009 New Construction Rating System. Preserving green spaces and environmental stewardship were crucial to CAMH’s ‘Green on Queen’ vision for the new buildings. Highlights include:
[2]While facing unanticipated challenges during the peak of the global pandemic in August 2020, PCL reached substantial completion on Mackenzie Health’s Cortellucci Vaughan Hospital, the City of Vaughan’s first hospital. Embracing energy efficiency and sustainability in the hospital’s planning, design and construction, Cortellucci Vaughan Hospital achieved LEED Silver certification earning 54 points. Highlights include:
“Achieving LEED in health care adds to the complexity of both the design and construction. On the design side, we often wrestle with architecture and energy models to find the right advanced energy systems and varied materials to hit the LEED targets,” says Stephen Montgomery, sustainability advisor, mechanical and electrical pursuits manager. “The resulting design contains more, and often new, components, parts and building techniques that must have complete plans for procurement, quality, commissioning, and turnover. The construction planning starts with design and does not end until the hospital is fully operational.”
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