TORONTO — A fixed-price contract of $1.8 billion has been awarded to Pomerleau Health Partners to design, build and finance the Weeneebayko Area Health Authority (WAHA) redevelopment project.
The project was awarded by Infrastructure Ontario (IO) and WAHA, in partnership with the Ontario government.
The Pomerleau Health Partners team includes Pomerleau Inc. (applicant lead and construction team); Kasian Architects Ontario Inc. and Bertrand Wheeler Architecture Inc. (design team); and PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (financial adviser).
The WAHA Redevelopment Project is being delivered using a progressive public-private partnership approach, which fosters collaborative development of project requirements, design, pricing and risk management, states release.
IO and WAHA signed a development phase agreement with Pomerleau in January 2023 following a request for proposals process that began in January 2022.
Throughout the development phase, Pomerleau Inc. worked collaboratively with IO and WAHA as well as with the Ministry of Health, Ministry of Long-Term Care and Indigenous Services Canada, to define and refine project requirements to advance the design and confirm fixed pricing, adds the release.
Pomerleau Health Partners is now onsite to redevelop the hospital.
Construction is expected to be complete in 2030.
The WAHA redevelopment project involves the construction of a new regional hospital, Elder Care Lodge, visitor hostel and staff accommodations in Moosonee and a new Ambulatory Care Centre on Moose Factory Island.
Once complete, these modern facilities will support WAHA in providing exceptional, culturally sensitive health care to patients and clients living along Ontario’s James Bay and Hudson Bay coasts, many of whom are Indigenous.
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