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The North Island Hospitals Project has won another award for innovation excellence. The project’s design builder, Graham, won Gold in the ‘Builder/General Contractor Commercial over $500 million’ category at the Constructech Vision awards in Chicago August 18, 2016.

The award is from Chicago-based Constructech Magazine, which celebrates the places “where construction and technology converge.” The Constructech Vision Awards honour construction companies that have applied technology in innovative ways to remain competitive.

The awards were judged by an independent panel of industry analysts ...

Health Minister Terry Lake got a first-hand look last month at progress on construction of the new hospitals in Campbell River and Comox Valley.
Minister Lake toured the North Island Hospitals sites on July 20th, joined by Island Health Geographic Area 1 Executive Medical Director Dr. Jeff Beselt, Geo 1 Executive Director Dermot Kelly, Island Health Vice President of Planning and Operations Support Joe Murphy, and North Island Hospitals Project Chief Project Officer Tom Sparrow. They were joined on the ...

There was cake and balloons on the new hospital sites in Campbell River and the Comox Valley recently as workers took a break to help celebrate an important anniversary. Graham, the main construction company, is celebrating 90 years of building.

“We’re trying to share the good news with as many people as we can on many of our sites,” said Dave Corcoran, Graham’s Vice President of Major Projects, Buildings. “These are two of our largest sites and we want to be ...

North Island Hospitals Project sites in Campbell River and the Comox Valley are providing “invaluable” educational and employment opportunities to people looking to get into the construction industry. That was the word from North Island College (NIC) Carpentry Instructor Tom Klatt, after he and his Foundation Carpentry Program students toured the new Comox Valley Hospital construction site.

“It’s invaluable,” he said. “They can see what they’re learning in school being applied every day on a job of this size. The tour ...

Almost two years after Island Health’s North Island Hospitals Project (NIHP) became the first public-private partnership project in North America and the first public infrastructure project in Canada to be partially funded through a green bond issue, a second green bond has been issued to finance the new Penticton Regional Hospital patient care tower and parkade.
First introduced by the World Bank in 2008, green bonds are similar to traditional bonds, but the proceeds are used exclusively for projects with ...

New hospitals in the Comox Valley and Campbell River will have all-inclusive places for quiet reflection and ceremony when the hospitals open in late 2017.
Island Health recognizes the importance of ensuring that everyone – including First Nations – and other Aboriginal people — feel welcome and respected when they receive health care services.
While many Island Health facilities feature some form of all-nations room, the North Island Hospitals Project is offering new opportunities for these special places; the opportunity ...