St. Paul's Hospital & Health Campus | U/C

[djmk]

If you require a helicopter to go to the hospital, you will either go the the closest hospital or the hospital with the specialized equipment/doctors you need.

VGH is just seconds away from this site and already has all the equipment you may need.

If you are a bit further out, you will be going to Abbotsford or Surrey Memorial

[Changing City]

Originally Posted by djmk

If you require a helicopter to go to the hospital, you will either go the the closest hospital or the hospital with the specialized equipment/doctors you need.

VGH is just seconds away from this site and already has all the equipment you may need.

If you are a bit further out, you will be going to Abbotsford or Surrey Memorial

Not necessarily. VGH and St Paul's aren't identical - some services are unique to one of the hospitals. For example, St Paul's carries out kidney transplants; VGH doesn't. Organ donations are very time sensitive, and right now have to arrive by road at St Paul's. If they've come from a donor elsewhere, they can be brought by air to Waterfront, and then have to be transferred to the hospital by road.

In a major incident generating multiple casualties, VGH could find their ICU full, but St Paul's might still have capacity. Bringing the injured directly to the hospital makes much more sense than adding in a road transfer as well.

Royal Columbian in New Westminster also has a helipad.

[WarrenC12]

VGH and RCH are the Level 1 trauma centres for Metro Vancouver. If you get shot/stabbed in the middle of the night this is where you will go. It's not only about helipads, but certain staffing levels 24/7 and preparations for immediate life and death trauma response.

It's feasible they will shift this from VGH to SPH in the future, or as a backup, or have 2 in Vancouver.

BC Women's and Children's has the helipad for kids and maternity cases, obviously.

Sometimes more complex cases get flown in from around the province as well as these are the expert centres for BC.

[djh]

Originally Posted by djmk

If you require a helicopter to go to the hospital, you will either go the the closest hospital or the hospital with the specialized equipment/doctors you need.

VGH is just seconds away from this site and already has all the equipment you may need.

If you are a bit further out, you will be going to Abbotsford or Surrey Memorial

St. Pauls and Women's & Childrens are the two hospitals in Vancouver with maternity wards. If you go into birth and are flown into VGH, they wouldn't be able to help you.

[Changing City]

Update to Strathcona residents:

Excavation, which has been ongoing since November, is expected to continue through May. Through at least March, it will continue 24 hours a day during the week in order to reduce traffic congestion, carbon emissions and the overall duration of the work.

In March, they will tie into the existing storm drain, which will involve running lines under Prior St. As with recent BC Hydro work, one lane of traffic will remain open in each direction throughout.

Structural work will begin in late February, with the installation of the first of four tower cranes. Concrete will start arriving soon after, using the National gate and the same circuit strategy to minimize noise. Main St. and Terminal will remain the preferred access routes. There are currently around 130 workers on site. That number will rise to 500+ by fall.

[Sheba]

Originally Posted by WarrenC12

VGH and RCH are the Level 1 trauma centres for Metro Vancouver. If you get shot/stabbed in the middle of the night this is where you will go. It's not only about helipads, but certain staffing levels 24/7 and preparations for immediate life and death trauma response.

When my friend was injured in a hit and run (in Richmond) they took him to VGH due to it being Level 1 trauma. There's a list of BC hospitals by what level they're in here (under Trauma Care In BC).

Since the pandemic I wouldn't be surprised to see some of them upgrade to move up a level but I can't see many moving up to Level 1 due to the cost of keeping a hospital fully staffed 24/7.

[osirisboy]

Originally Posted by Changing City

Not necessarily. VGH and St Paul's aren't identical - some services are unique to one of the hospitals. For example, St Paul's carries out kidney transplants; VGH doesn't. Organ donations are very time sensitive, and right now have to arrive by road at St Paul's. If they've come from a donor elsewhere, they can be brought by air to Waterfront, and then have to be transferred to the hospital by road.

In a major incident generating multiple casualties, VGH could find their ICU full, but St Paul's might still have capacity. Bringing the injured directly to the hospital makes much more sense than adding in a road transfer as well.

Royal Columbian in New Westminster also has a helipad.

Yes. In other words exactly what he said.

[jollyburger]

Yeah the hole is getting pretty deep now.

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[Changing City]

The first tower crane is up. Presumably this has now moved beyond 'proposed'?

[hollywoodnorth]

concrete is now being poured. crane #1 is up at the SW Corner of the excavation.

[jollyburger]

Seems like they are a bit behind schedule but we'll see a second crane soon. Interesting it will take another 10 months for the parking levels to be completed. I guess there's a lot of excavation work left as well and maybe a lot of piling work.

The first two cranes are expected to be installed in February, with the rest (for a total five) to follow throughout the spring.
By the end of 2022, concrete slabs will be placed for each floor of the 4-level parkade. Once that’s done, the construction crews can start to build the structure of the future 11-storey hospital in 2023!

https://thenewstpauls.ca/2021-wrap-up/

And a new webcam view for us. Someone email them and ask them for links for the other cams



https://webcampub.multivista.com/index.c...UID=47B9FB5D-4B52-406E-82DE-2FCBF52F03B5

[VancouverOfTheFuture]

should this be U/C now?

[SFUVancouver]

Originally Posted by VancouverOfTheFuture

should this be U/C now?

By any rational interpretation, yes. However, my recollection of SSP forum rules/convention requires that foundations are poured and vertical structure is being built for it to technically be considered 'under construction'.

Excavation on its own doesn't count. I can dig a hole in my garden but it doesn't mean I'm putting an addition on the house.

I think that this rule originally arose when a lot of projects in the International Village neighbourhood had excavation occur and then sat dormant as small lakes for years.

[osirisboy]

Cranes up so at least a part of the foundation of structure has been poured

[madog222]

Once part of the structure is above grade.

[VancouverOfTheFuture]

Originally Posted by SFUVancouver

By any rational interpretation, yes. However, my recollection of SSP forum rules/convention requires that foundations are poured and vertical structure is being built for it to technically be considered 'under construction'.

i see its U/C now. thats good.

i always thought it was done by a crane going up thats why i mentioned it with the crane pics.

[hollywoodnorth]

do we know when National Street will return to 2 lanes from the current 1 lane with alternating traffic with a temp traffic signal?

[jollyburger]

Originally Posted by hollywoodnorth

do we know when National Street will return to 2 lanes from the current 1 lane with alternating traffic with a temp traffic signal?

The January 2022-Octobe 2023 slide said it was supposed to be open at this point. With a full road closure prior to this.

https://thenewstpauls.ca/app/uploads/2021/03/Community-Open-House-full-PP-March-18.pdf

Maybe once they finish civil works/getting the access road built it will reopen.

[jollyburger]

Update from St Pauls

Majority of excavation is wrapping up this spring. PCL Construction has dug to the glacial till to ensure the new hospital is built on stable ground to help it stand up to earthquakes and floods.
Anchoring the secant wall will finish in 2022. This underground waterproofed perimeter surrounding the hospital’s foundation helps protect it from erosion, groundwater, floods, and rising sea levels.
Four more cranes will arrive on site. Trucks are delivering concrete used to pour floors and pillars for each level of the hospital. PCL will start with the 4-level underground parkade and work their way up. By the end of 2022, you might even see the main floor of our new hospital peek out from the ground.
Road and utility infrastructure work is ongoing. Work is being done to lay the necessary underground infrastructure for water, sewer, hydro, telecommunication and gas lines, as well as new roads, sidewalks, and parkade ramps.

https://thenewstpauls.ca/kicking-off-building-phase/

Seems like a new animation as well

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And for anyone who missed it here's the 2nd webcam

https://webcampub.multivista.com/index.c...UID=47B9FB5D-4B52-406E-82DE-2FCBF52F03B5

And usually a 4K feed here

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNDVyL_iDsXuZmm_dxllkbQ

[zahav]

I thought for noe they were only doing site prep, didn't realize the DP had been issued already allowing them to start building construction, but looks like it was in February:

The Development Permit Board approved this application, and a Development Permit was issued on February 11, 2022.

So the design is final. Not crazy about it but I love everything single other thing about this project; the location, the scale, the resulting spinoff building and precinct it's hoping to create, the brand new top of the line hospital facilities, the fact that a massive chunk of downtown will now be home to skyscrapers, not to mention the massive funds from the downtown land sale made this project incredibly cheap from a tax payer perspective. To get something this major without a huge commitment from government is pretty amazing. Of course they are still spending a lot, but it's a bargain considering the land was existing and the old site was worth a fortune. Really looking forward to seeing this rise, probably the project I'm most excited to see come to fruition