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. 2

Drivers of Change Alberta Infrastructure’s new DESIGN PRINCIPALS for PUBLICLY FUNDED INFRASTRUCTURE Functionality Sustainability Flexibility & Adaptability Affordability & Form 3

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. 4

Drivers of Change Northern Alberta Urology Centre had an aggressive schedule to retain donor funding. Alberta was experiencing limited trade coverage for drywall tenders. 5

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. 6

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. 7

Project Implementation - Design Glazing features were readily added to increase borrowed light in the clinic. 8

Project Implementation - Design Designer quickly utilized DIRTT functionality in design Glazing features were readily added to increase borrowed light in the clinic. 9

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Project Implementation - Construction MEP + Ceiling in, base building painted, flooring down. 18

Project Implementation - Construction Pre-Engineered walls arrive on site 19

Project Implementation - Construction All the Flooring was down and the placement for each panel was labeled. 20

Project Implementation - Construction Wide open environment for the trades to work in 21

Project Implementation - Construction Walls on site, ready for tilt up construction. 22

Project Implementation - Construction Clean construction for the interior 23

Project Implementation - Construction Clean construction for the interior 24

Project Implementation - Construction Level II Electrical in the walls 25

Project Implementation - Construction First day of installation 26

Project Implementation - Construction All walls were up within 48 hours. 27

Next Steps – Finish the Project 28

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Other Benefits founds to date Easy to add Graphic feature walls 30

Other Benefits founds to date Easy to add Graphic feature walls 31

Graphics were utilized on another project Stollery Pediatric Ambulatory Clinic Utilized system to get a feature wall finished within schedule and budget. 32

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. 33

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. 34