BTY Group

BTY Group has been engaged to provide Professional Quantity Surveying and Cost Consulting services for the construction of a $24 million, 5,785 square-metre complex care facility on land adjacent to the Powell River General Hospital site in Powell River, BC. The new facility is expected to open in 2013.

Powell River Regional Hospital District (PRRHD) is providing 100 per cent of the capital to build the facility and also owns the land. Vancouver Coastal Health Authority (VCH) will lease the building for 20 years through an operating lease. The VCH lease payments will equal 50 per cent of project costs.

Vancouver Coastal Health Authority (VCH) has commissioned Lower Mainland-Facilities Management (LM-FM) to provide Project Management services for the facility, which will provide 102 patient care rooms for complex residential care and allow for the decanting or renovation of the existing Olive Devaud facility. The project will seek LEED certification and incorporate wood as much as possible in accordance with the province’s “wood first” policy.

BTY Group is the Lenders’ Technical Advisor and the Construction Contract Independent Certifier for the new Quinte Consolidated Courthouse, which achieved financial close in June 2011 and began construction in July. The new $247 million facility will improve access to courthouse services by consolidating the Superior Court of Justice and Ontario Court of Justice in one location in Belleville, ON.

The new courthouse will be designed and built to meet LEED® Silver standards. Green features include improved indoor air quality, extensive use of glass to provide more natural lighting, significant reduction in energy use, and environmentally friendly building materials and ongoing green housekeeping practices.

Brookfield Infrastructure Partnerships Quinte (BIPQ), comprising Brookfield Financial and Morguard Corporation, are undertaking the Design-Build-Finance-Maintain (DBFM) project, with PCL Constructors Canada providing construction services. Infrastructure Ontario and the Provincial Ministry of the Attorney General (MAG) are the project sponsors.

The new VanDusen Botanical Garden’s Visitor Centre seeks to be one of Canada’s first facilities to receive Living Building Challenge certification. The Centre was designed by architectural firm Perkins + Will, with landscape architects Cornelia Hahn Oberlander and Sharp & Diamond. The 19,000 sf, $22-million facility features rammed earth walls, geothermal and solar energy, on-site water capture and treatment, and the most environmentally responsible building materials, making it entirely carbon- and energy-neutral. BTY Group provided Cost Management services for the project during the program and design development stages.

For buildings to be certified as Living Buildings, they must generate their own energy, harvest and treat their own water and use locally sourced, non-toxic materials. The Living Building Challenge is one of the most advanced green building rating systems and is considered to be one of world’s most rigorous standards. Certification requires that the building be in operation for 12 months and have no negative impact on the site. The Visitor Centre opened in October 2011.

BTY Group has been selected to serve as the Independent Certifier (IC) for the New Oakville Hospital Project by the Project Sponsors, Infrastructure Ontario and Halton Healthcare Services (HHS). Hospital Infrastructure Partners Inc. was selected as the preferred proponent to design, build, finance and maintain the $2 billion new hospital.

The project will replace the 60-year-old Oakville-Trafalgar Memorial Hospital, which has no more room for expansion. Groundbreaking for the new hospital took place on September 23, 2011. Final completion is set for October 30, 2015. The HHS Facility will comprise about 921,970 departmental gross square feet. It will initially accommodate 457 beds and evolve over time to 704 beds. When completed, the New Oakville Hospital will be one of the largest community hospitals in Ontario.

Infrastructure Ontario is a non-share capital corporation responsible for delivering public infrastructure improvements. Halton Healthcare Services is a multi-site healthcare organization comprising community hospitals in Ontario.