MONTREAL,
May 28, 2012 /CNW Telbec/ -
SNC-Lavalin (TSX: SNC) is pleased to announce the financial closure
and official signing of the Grandir en santé expansion project of
the CHU Ste-Justine (CHUSJ). Under the contract, SNC-Lavalin will
provide engineering, construction and financing to the CHUSJ.
The expansion, part of the Grandir en santé
modernization efforts currently underway at the Sainte-Justine
Hospital Centre, will include two new buildings dedicated to
specialized care and research. A new seven‐storey building for
specialized care units, with a total surface area of 43,269
m2, will be located to the west of the current CHUSJ
building and be linked floor‐by‐floor with the existing facility
via bridges and underground passages.
The project includes specialized care units for
integrated pediatrics, specialized pediatrics and trauma surgery
with a capacity of 120 beds, a 14‐room surgery department with 11
operating theatres and three procedure rooms, 32 pediatric
intensive and intermediate care beds, a 20‐bed high risk pregnancy
unit, a 23-bed birth unit, 80 intensive care beds in neonatology,
and medical imaging facilities. A new Research Centre, with a total
surface area of 26,696 m2, is also included in the
project.
"We are very pleased to have been awarded this
key project in the health care sector," said Charles Chebl, Executive Vice-President,
SNC-Lavalin Group Inc. "This state-of-the-art health care facility
will enable the CHU Sainte-Justine to fulfill its health care
vision for the future."
Construction is already underway, and the
project is expected to be completed in the autumn of 2016.
SNC-Lavalin is one of the leading engineering
and construction groups in the world and a major player in the
ownership of infrastructure, and in the provision of operations and
maintenance services. SNC-Lavalin has offices across Canada and in over 40 other countries around
the world, and is currently working in some 100 countries.
www.snclavalin.com.
SOURCE SNC-LAVALIN