PHOTO: Rubble At Ryerson

Site work is moving along on the Daphne Cockwell Health Sciences Complex at Ryerson University on Church Street in Toronto.

Construction manager for the 27-storey building with 100 student residences, an eight-storey podium and four levels of underground parking, is Eastern Construction Co. Ltd. The podium will house the school of nursing, midwifery education, the school of nutrition and the school of occupational and public health. It will also include learning centres for communications, government and community engagement, university advancement, food services and a fabrication zone. The owner is Ryerson University and occupancy has been scheduled to begin in fall 2018. The architect is Perkins + Will Canada and consultants are: WSP Canada Inc. (structural); MCW Consultants Ltd. (mechanical); Crossey Engineering Ltd. (electrical) and dtah (landscape). Subtrades include: GFL (excavating).