MUHC: A year into project, things are looking up

The Gazette, July 4th, 2011 -- The McGill University Health Centre's planning department has spent years drawing up complex "road maps" that act as guides for the hospital's construction consortium. Before a single block of concrete was poured, the MUHC had started bringing together hundreds of people - including doctors, nurses, clinicians, engineers and architects - to figure out exactly how the hospital should be laid out, right down to the last light switch. It's a process that is still going on, even as the buildings take shape.

Council gives green light on sound barrier study

Westmount Examiner, July 7th 2011 -- The City of Westmount will ask the provincial government to proceed with the study for a proposed sound barrier that would be erected next to the CP railway tracks through most of lower Westmount — from Clandeboye Avenue to Blenheim Place.

Read more: http://www.westmountexaminer.com/News/Local/2011-07-07/article-2638479/Council-gives-green-light-on-sound-barrier-study/1

We’re all seeing orange

Westmount Examiner, July 13th 2011 -- There are white Christmases, blue Mondays and red letter days… Now we can add another to the list — orange summers.

Read more: http://www.westmountexaminer.com/Opinion/Editorials/2011-07-13/article-2650685/Were-all-seeing-orange/1

Faits saillants de la séance du conseil d'arrondissement de CDN—NDG du 27 juin 2011

Arrondissement CDN/NDG, mercredi 29 juin 2011 -- Dans le cadre des travaux pour le Centre universitaire de santé McGill, le conseil a approuvé les plans en vertu du titre VIII du Règlement d'urbanisme de l'arrondissement de CDN—NDG et du règlement 05-035 pour la délivrance du permis par étape visant la réalisation de la structure de l'hôpital.

New artist's rendering of hospital released

The Gazette, June 28th 2011 -- The McGill University Health Centre has released a new artist's rendering of the hospital complex taking shape on the Glen campus.

The original drawings of the mega-facility, available on the MUHC's website for about a year, did not include the Shriners hospital, seen in the new photo on the far right.

Read more: http://www.montrealgazette.com/artist+rendering+hospital+released/5014847/story.html#ixzz1R9WnORkz

Road rage in montreal

The Gazette, June 22nd 2011 -- At the beginning of May, construction of the ramps that would lead to the new MUHC hospital started to cause major traffic tieups and slowdowns. The affected area is along the southbound Décarie service road from Vezina St. to Queen Mary Rd. Because of this congestion, drivers have been taking side streets that are not meant to handle the excess traffic.

Read more: http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/Road+rage+montreal/4984885/story.html#ixzz1R9W8Xmsv

Cranes to be dismantled once concrete slab on roof is poured

The Gazette, June 21st 2011 --
Since this column began last year, The Gazette has received many reader questions about the Glen campus construction site and the McGill University Health Centre's new facilities. This week, representatives from the MUHC and the construction consortium were asked to answer some of your questions. Here's what they had to say: ...

MUHC: Project keeps 'all professionals' in one place

The Gazette, June 14th 2011 -- It will be another three years before Montrealers get a glimpse of any completed buildings on the Glen campus, so many may be wondering about the small cluster of structures on the eastern end of the site that already appear to be finished and occupied.

MUHC plans "good neighbour" meeting June 14

The Westmount Examiner, June 8th 2011 -- Residents of Westmount and NDG are being invited by the McGill University Health Centre (MUHC) to attend an information meeting on the ongoing construction project in the Glen Yards.

Organized by the MUHC’s Good Neighbourly Relations Committee, the public meeting will be held next Tuesday, June 14 from 7 to 8:30 p.m. in the project office of the Glen Campus construction site, 1051 Decarie Boul., south of de Maisonneuve Boulevard.

Aluminum giant Rio Tinto pledges $10M to hospitals

The Gazette, June 9th 2011 -- Showing the importance of business leadership in building a better - and healthier - community, aluminum-production giant Rio Tinto Alcan announced Wednesday it is donating $10 million to the joint corporate campaigns of Montreal's two new university hospital centres.

Glen will house ambulances in special areas

The Gazette, June 7th 2011 -- A state-of-the-art hospital isn't much good if you can't access it quickly in an emergency.

The architects who designed the McGill University Health Centre's new Glen campus were fully aware of that fact when they began sketching the plans for the facility's emergency transport systems. Ensuring that critically ill patients get where they need to go - and fast - has been a major priority from the start.

Ambulances will be able to access the Glen through three entrances; two along Décarie Blvd. and one off St. Jacques St. Those are the same entrances that will be used by all vehicles entering the site, said Pierre Major, the MUHC's associate director of construction and redevelopment.

Building public infrastructure for the future

Canadianview.ca, June 1st 2011 -- There is tremendous pressure on municipalities to privatize infrastructure investment to meet the growing needs. Regardless of the negative repercussions to future city budgets and to the community, a privatization agenda continues to be facilitated by PPP Canada Inc. But public private partnerships (P3’s) and contracting out public services have proven to result in higher costs, lower quality, the loss of public control and increasing inequality in our communities.

Glen campus will have eight 'cancer bunkers'

The Gazette, May 31st 2011 -- The McGill University Health Centre's new Glen campus will be equipped with eight "cancer bunkers" buried partially underground in the hospital's cancer centre, at the eastern end of the site.

These rooms, each eight metres by eight metres, will house large, sophisticated machines that use targeted ionizing radiation to destroy cancer cells in a patient's body. The treatment, commonly known as radiotherapy, involves aiming radiation beams at a tumour from several angles, explained William Parker, a medical physicist at the MUHC.