MUHC: Life-saving treatment isolated on third floor

The Gazette, August 23rd 2011 -- As autumn descends on the Glen Campus construction site, crews will be climbing higher and higher, adding more floors to the now-visible building foundations. While the new mega-hospital's lower levels will be important for patient care (they will house the emergency departments, among other things), it's the third floor where much of the life-saving treatment will take place.

MUHC: Tubes aid in logistics Pneumatic network for small objects

The Gazette, August 16th 2011 -- When the planning teams at the McGill University Health Centre started sketching out the new mega-facility on the Glen campus, they quickly realized its enormous scale was going to present a number of challenges. Chief among them was transportation. Even if an employee were only carrying one small object and sprinting at top speed, it would take several minutes to cross from one end of the Glen to the other - and the person would probably arrive needing medical assistance of their own.

It has a finger in every pie Big construction; Can government afford to act?

The Gazette, August 6th 2011 -- In the 1970s, Lalonde, Valois, Lamarre, Valois et associés - later known as SNC-Lavalin - built the Ville Marie Expressway. In 2008, SNC-Lavalin inspected the expressway for the government, sounding the alarm on its "critical" state. The company then became part of the consortium that drew up the plans to fix the Ville Marie, and supervise the work that had begun when the ceiling collapsed last Sunday.

It's as quiet as a hospital zone around the Glen Campus: Construction hiatus means 13 more days of relative tranquillity

The Gazette, August 9th 2011 -- People living in the neighbourhoods surrounding the Glen Campus construction site can look forward to another 13 days of relative calm as crews take a break for the annual construction holiday. The hiatus began on Monday, with all building crews and subcontractors abandoning the site until Aug. 8.

Construction of superhospital inches forward

CTV.ca, July 28th 2011 -- The upcoming MUHC superhospital is on schedule and on budget one year into a five-year construction plan, according to builders. But there are many years intensive construction ahead before the hospital launches in early 2015.

Work continues on Montreal’s highways

The Gazette, July 22nd 2011 -- Highway-repair work in the Montreal region isn’t letting up – despite the peak holiday period. Motorists were warned Friday to brace for more detours, regardless of this weekend’s start of the two-week construction holiday for the building trades. A variety of access ramps will be shut, at off-peak hours, in and around the Turcot Interchange. Also included in a five-page list of closings issued by Transport Quebec – and available on its website – is overnight work planned late Sunday into Monday on ramps connecting Highway 40 east with Highway 15 south, and 15 south with 40 west.

Glen Campus tendering process guarantees latest technology

The Gazette, August 9th 2011 -- The McGill University Health Centre has started the tendering process for some of the biggest pieces of equipment to be installed on the Glen Campus. Over the next several months, companies will submit proposals to supply everything from linear accelerators to refrigerators for the new mega-hospital, to open in the fall of 2014. "There are quite a few tenders already out there," said Imma Franco, associate director of programs and services planning for the MUHC.

Even the trains move for the MUHC superhospital

CTV.ca, July 15th 2011 -- The train overpass near the intersection of Decarie and de Maisonneuve Blvds. needs to be rebuilt and extended, but before that can take place a temporary railway detour needs to be built. Construction on the replacement bridge begins Monday July 18. "Before we re-construct the railway bridge, we have to build a deviation - a sort of a bypass - so the train, the commuter train could go on this bypass," said Alain Trudeau, project manager with the city of Montreal. "When this will be built, we will start the demolition of the existing bridge."

Transport Quebec needs to make changes: ex-traffic reporter

The Gazette, July 14th 2011 -- Transport Quebec must revamp how it communicates so motorists aren’t left in the dark again the way they were this week over the Ville Marie Expressway tunnel, says a member of a new roadwork coordination committee. The department must create a “customer-service culture and show people we know they are suffering,” said former radio traffic reporter Rick Leckner, appointed to the committee last week.

Improved air system will filter out bugs, keep contagious patients isolated

The Gazette, July 12th 2011 -- [...] The new mega-facility going up on the Glen campus will be light years ahead of Montreal's existing hospitals in terms of environmental control, said Antonin Bouchard, the McGill University Health Centre's associate director of engineering and operations for the Glen.