McGill University Healthcare Plans Huge Campus for Consolidated Hospitals

McGill University Health Centre has selected Boston-based Shepley Bulfinch Richardson and Abbott (SBRA) architects working with Kurt Salmon Associates Health Care (Atlanta, Ga.) and Montreal architect Jodoin Lamarre et Pratte to complete a Strategic, Master and Functional Programming initiative to move five merged (1997) hospitals into one integrated healthcare campus, creating one of the largest hospital consolidations in North America. The Montreal General Hospital, the Montreal Children's Hospital, the Royal Victoria Hospital (including the Montreal Chest Hospital), and the Montreal Neurological Hospital will be moved into one 3.5 million-sf healthcare development. The Strategic Planning and Master Programming will be completed in December 2001, followed by a one-year design phase and three years of construciton. A tentative opening date is late 2005.