News 1. Kasian report This item is written by Jennifer Henderson. The bill from a consultant hired by the province to develop the master plan to replace the crumbling Victoria General Hospital has come in at $3.4 million — a whopping 78 per cent higher than budgeted. Toronto-based Kasian Architecture was awarded a $1.9 million […]
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News 1. Kasian Report on VG Redevelopment “Finally, the province has released a massive amount of information from a consulting firm hired to draw up a Master Plan to replace the Victoria General Hospital,” reports Jennifer Henderson: You can read what Kasian Architecture has recommended the proposed new facilities should look like and what services they […]
A highly redacted version of the Master Plan to replace the Victoria General Hospital has been released
Finally, the province has released a massive amount of information from a consulting firm hired to draw up a Master Plan to replace the Victoria General Hospital. You can read what Kasian Architecture has recommended the proposed new facilities should look like and what services they will deliver here. Some of the info is quite...
McNeil government refuses to release VG replacement report
The McNeil government continues to keep the advice it receives on its biggest and most expensive decisions carefully out of public sight. Yesterday the Minister of Transportation, Infrastructure and Renewal (TIR) refused to release a preliminary cost estimate to replace the crumbling Victoria General (VG) Hospital the government has promised to demolish in 2022. That’s...
P3 or not P3
Plans for a VG replacement are heading towards the P3 cliff, and no one's at the wheel.
The provincial government is paying Deloitte half a million dollars to recommend whether the Province should use some type of a public-private-partnership (P3) to finance, build, and maintain two new outpatient centres. The outpatient centres will be part of the overall re-development of the QE2 Health Sciences Centre to replace services, 200 patient beds, and...
The VG replacement report is finished, but you can’t see it
The consultant's report includes a preliminary cost estimate, timeline, and master plan to replace services delivered out of the crumbling Victoria General (VG) hospital and Centennial building, but government agencies refuse to release it.
On Friday, December 29, the final work day of 2017, the province received a consultant’s report containing some highly anticipated information. The report included a preliminary cost estimate, timeline, and master plan to replace services delivered out of the crumbling Victoria General (VG) hospital and Centennial building. Kasian Architecture of Ontario had been awarded a...