The Government of British Columbia announced the shortlist of teams for Phase 2 of the Richmond Hospital redevelopment project.
The three shortlisted teams are:
- Bird Design-Build Construction Inc., Stantec Architecture Ltd., AtkinsRéalis Major Projects Inc., and AtkinsRéalis Canada Inc.;
- EllisDon Corporation, Dialog BC Architecture Engineering Interior Design Planning Inc., PML Professional Mechanical Ltd., and Houle Electric Limited; and
- Graham Design Builders LP and HDR Architecture Associates, Inc.
The Richmond Hospital redevelopment will add 113 more hospital beds, increasing from 246 to 359 acute-care beds. Medical-care spaces will increase, including three more operating rooms bringing the total to 11. Emergency-department spaces will increase from 62 to 86, with three CT scanners added, along with another MRI for a total of two, and an additional interventional-radiology room will be added to the hospital in future.
This RFP process is expected to take approximately six months. Then the team will start the alliance-development phase, which is anticipated to take one year. Phase 2 construction of the new 216-bed Yurkovich Family Pavilion is expected to start in early 2026 and finish in 2029.
Phase 1 of the Richmond Hospital redevelopment is already underway. This includes the renovations to the Milan Ilich Pavilion for the new cancer-care clinic, which were completed in October 2023 with the facility opening to patients on Nov. 27, 2023, relocation of services and the demolition of the Rotunda building. Work on the demolition of the Park Centre is expected to begin in December 2024.
The total project cost is $1.96 billion, an increase of $1.1 billion since the business plan developed in 2020-21, primarily due to construction-cost escalation related to market conditions across all sectors.
“With a shortlist of candidates to compete for the design and construction of the Richmond Hospital’s new acute-care tower over the next six months, our government is propelling the redevelopment project forward so people can get high-quality care in a state-of-the-art facility,” said Henry Yao, MLA for Richmond South-Centre.
