Medicine Hat, AB · 2017 – 2019
Alberta Health Services
The Chinook Regional Hospital — Diagnostic Imaging Wing
The story
What they wanted
"Double our diagnostic imaging capacity without turning the floor into a construction zone for two years."
The design problem
A new DI wing had to plug into an active hospital floor — three MRIs, a CT, and a fluoroscopy room — without interrupting patient flow, technologist workflow, or the existing department's accreditation. Every shutdown cost the region six-figure throughput losses.
How we solved it
A phased shell-and-fit-out strategy. We built the structure cold, fitted out modalities one at a time, and routed patient circulation through a temporary corridor that became the permanent waiting room. No modality was offline for more than 11 days.
2×
Imaging capacity
11d
Max downtime
0
Surgeries delayed
$16M
On budget
Project facts
Location Medicine Hat, AB
Year 2017 – 2019
Value $16M CAD
Area 14,200 sf · 1,319 m²
Scope Full Design · Documentation · CA · Phased construction
Role Prime Consultant
Builder PCL Construction
Photography Brett Ryan Studios
Structural Entuitive
Mechanical / Electrical SMP Engineering
Medical Equipment HMA Consulting
From the client · 42s
"They understood healthcare. Not in theory — in the way you only know if you have sat with a tech at 2am watching the queue back up."
Dr. James Whittaker
Director of Imaging, Chinook Regional