Lower Sackville, N.S.

This new 126,000 square foot health-care facility will provide space for an Emergency Department, Ambulatory Care, Physiotherapy, and Diagnostic Imaging, as well as Mental Health/Addiction Services, Community Services and Clinics.

The building is a two-storey structure with an additional partial basement and a mechanical penthouse. The second floor is framed using a two-way, cast-in-place reinforced concrete slab while the main roof structure is constructed of a steel deck supported on open web steel joists and a structural steel frame.

The exterior cladding on the building consists of a combination of glass curtainwall, metal siding and non-load bearing, site cast, tilt-up concrete panels. The front of the building is elegantly curved with an extensive canopy sweeping around the building. An eighty-foot high structural steel tower is located at the rear of the building to enable exhaust stacks from boilers and generators to rise high above the building, ensuring the exhaust does not re-enter the building through the air intake louvers.

Brought together under one roof, these associated departments of modern health care will bring specialists and outreach facilities into a single location for easier access by the community.