This is the hospital’s first major redevelopment in more than 40 years. Cannon Design will undertake the design of a six-storey patient care tower and significant renovations to the existing space at the 51-year-old lakeside medical facility.

The redevelopment and expansion project will include 77 additional inpatient beds; expansion of the diagnostic imaging and medical diagnostics unit; new operating rooms, post-anaesthetic care unit and expanded ambulatory procedures area; new ambulatory care and cancer centre; new main entrance; and a new laboratory.

The project will also include the construction of a new, independent power plant that will serve the expanded facility. The hospital is also aspiring LEED Silver certification for the new facility.

The renovation project will complete by 2018.