British Columbia’s Provincial Health Services Authority and Affinity Partnerships have signed an agreement to build the new Teck Acute Care Centre at B.C. Children’s Hospital and B.C. Women’s Hospital and Health Centre.

The Teck Acute Care Centre will be an eight-storey, 59,400 square metre facility. The new building will include medical and surgical inpatient units, an emergency department, medical imaging and procedural suites, hematology and oncology department and a pediatric intensive care unit for B.C. Children’s Hospital. It also includes high-risk birthing and a new neonatal intensive care unit for the women’s hospital.

Work on the facility will start this year, and include the demolition of two wings of an old building and construction of the new facility. It is expected to be completed by 2017.

Construction services will be delivered through a joint venture between Balfour Beatty Construction and Ledcor Design Build. Design is being provided in a partnership between Zimmer Gunsul Frasca Architects (ZGF) LLP and CEI Architecture.

The total cost of the three-phase redevelopment project is estimated to be $676 million.