Did You Know? KGH Facts and Figures

• The new buildings at KGH are big. How big? The amount of floor space being added to the KGH site is the equivalent of what you’d find in a Wal-Mart, Home Depot, Rona, Golf Town AND Costco…combined.
• Approximately 17,000 cubic metres of concrete was used in the Centennial Building. That’s enough concrete to fill seven Olympic-sized swimming pools. It’s also the same as filling 115 million 5-ounce glasses with Okanagan wine.
• All of the new construction is following the LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) whole building approach to sustainability and will be LEED Gold certified.
• The Centennial Building used approximately 7 million pounds (3.2 million kilograms) of reinforcing steel inside the concrete superstructure. This is enough raw steel to build approximately 30 km worth of railroad, which would be the equivalent of starting from KGH and finishing in Oyama, BC.
• There is approximately 673,000 feet – or approximately 205 kilometres – of CAT 6 data cabling within the Centennial Building. This is enough data cabling to stretch along Highway 97/Highway 1 from KGH past Revelstoke, BC.
• The first interventional cardiac procedure ever performed outside Victoria and the Lower Mainland was completed on November 16, 2009 when Kelowna resident Ron Kaerne received a precutaneous coronary intervention (PCI, or angioplasty). There were over 2,000 angioplasties performed at KGH in the first two years of the program.