VJH Site Update

It’s almost time to raise the roof – literally – at Vernon Jubilee Hospital’s new Patient Care Tower. The final concrete pour to complete the roof of the seven-storey tower should be done by the end of November. Watch for more information on an event to celebrate the accomplishment.

In the meantime, Graham Construction, the company building the tower, is sealing off the fifth floor as a temporary “roof” so they can move construction activities inside for the winter months. Closing in of the first through fourth floors is now taking place.

The first floor is completely framed in now, and the mechanical and electrical rough-in work is 80 percent complete. The second floor is 90 percent framed and 60 percent of the mechanical/electrical rough-in is finished. The framing and mechanical/electrical work has just gotten underway on the third and fourth floors.

The old duplex at the southeast corner of the construction site will be removed by the end of November to allow final shaping of the new parking area in front of the main entrance to the Patient Care Tower.

Installation of the new storm lines and storm water retention tanks to the west of the current Emergency Department entrance is now complete, as is the reconfiguration of the parking area.

Watch for more work around the current ER entrance in the spring when the new Patient Care Tower is joined to the existing hospital.

If you’ve been to the construction project website lately (www.buildingpatientcare.ca) to have a look at the VJH webcam, you’ll notice there’s not much to see! The camera is as high as it will go. So, as the building walls are completed, we’ll start posting photographs of the ongoing construction work inside the building. Stay tuned for that!