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Manufactured Construction. Alberta Infrastructure’s Perspective on Current Trends. Canadian Center for Healthcare Facilities. Health Facilities Branch introduces Manufactured Walls to an Edmonton Health project.
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Manufactured Construction Alberta Infrastructure’s Perspective on Current Trends • Canadian Center for Healthcare Facilities
Health Facilities Branch introduces Manufactured Walls to an Edmonton Health project Alberta Infrastructure delivers Health Facility Projects over $5 million for Alberta Health Services / Alberta Health Northern Alberta Urology Center is a fit-out of a vacant floor in the existing Kaye Edmonton Clinic. NAUC will provide state of the art urology care in an academic environment and will establish a single point of entry allowing for an integrated approach to assessment, diagnosis, education, treatment, follow-up, and support for urology services.
Drivers of Change Alberta Infrastructure’s new DESIGN PRINCIPALS for PUBLICLY FUNDED INFRASTRUCTURE • Functionality • Sustainability • Flexibility & Adaptability • Affordability & Form
Drivers of Change Government of Alberta’s Climate Leadership Plan • Infrastructure funding will target outcomes that focus on measurable reductions in greenhouse gas emission. • Program Design is currently being developed with the ministries of Infrastructure, Transportation and Municipal Affairs.
Drivers of Change • Northern Alberta Urology Centre had an aggressive schedule to retain donor funding. • Alberta was experiencing limited trade coverage for drywall tenders.
Choosing NAUC to pilot Manufactured Construction • Half of the project space had repeated room designs such physicians office, clinical staff work rooms and exam rooms. • The Kaye Edmonton Clinic is designed for clinic spaces. • The project chose to have the walls constructed with conduit, but not wired by manufacturer to insure CSA Z32 requirements were met.
Project Implementation – Client Acceptance Infrastructure had to get the client to understand new technology: • Perception of limitations based on standard office cubicle products. • Infection Prevention and Control benefits during construction. • Ability to adapt to changing needs over the lifetime of a facility. • Maintenance benefits especially due to flood incidents.
Project Implementation - Design • Glazing features were readily added to increase borrowed light in the clinic.
Project Implementation - Design • Designer quickly utilized DIRTT functionality in design • Glazing features were readily added to increase borrowed light in the clinic.
Project Implementation - Construction • MEP + Ceiling in, base building painted, flooring down.
Project Implementation - Construction • Pre-Engineered walls arrive on site
Project Implementation - Construction • All the Flooring was down and the placement for each panel was labeled.
Project Implementation - Construction • Wide open environment for the trades to work in
Project Implementation - Construction • Walls on site, ready for tilt up construction.
Project Implementation - Construction • Clean construction for the interior
Project Implementation - Construction • Clean construction for the interior
Project Implementation - Construction • Level II Electrical in the walls
Project Implementation - Construction • First day of installation
Project Implementation - Construction • All walls were up within 48 hours.
Other Benefits founds to date • Easy to add Graphic feature walls
Other Benefits founds to date • Easy to add Graphic feature walls
Graphics were utilized on another project Stollery Pediatric Ambulatory Clinic Utilized system to get a feature wall finished within schedule and budget.
Lessons Learned to date • Can’t back this in – need to be at SD and everyone needs to be supportive of IPD and a new construction methodology. • Shop drawing review process was intensive for designer and project teams. • Review still did not catch all instances of utilities being run through glazing. • Coordination issues that are normally addressed on site during typical steel stud construction were not discovered until connections were attempted.
Lessons learned to date - Continued • Installers were not prepared for construction in an active healthcare facility. • Still need to address user perception of quality prior to seeing installation. • Users are concerned that floor wax will not be under walls.