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NEW HEALTH BUILDING EXPANDS SERVICES This is not just another building for Medicine Hat. Opening of the $265-million Ambulatory Care Building represents a major boost in medical services for the city and its neighbours. -photo courtesy Alberta Health Services
rooftop heliport, cardio-respiratory services, a renal program, and sterile processing. The project came in at a cost of $265 million, a report in the Medicine Hat News says. The project also expands day surgery and neonatal intensive care areas, and includes a redevelopment of the hospital’s cancer centre. The new building, designed by Gibbs Gage Architects and Diamond Schmitt Architects, relied on the engineering of several APEGA permit holders: RJC Engineers (structural), SNC-Lavalin Wiebe Forest (mechanical), SMP Engineering (electrical), and MPE Engineering (civil).
MEDICINE HAT HOSPITAL ADDITION INCLUDES ROOFTOP HELIPORT
Seven years in the making, a 245,000-square-foot addition to Medicine Hat Regional Hospital has officially opened. The state-of-the-art Ambulatory Care Building adds 40 outpatient treatment spaces, a
ALBERTA GEOMATICS EXPERTISE COMES TO THE RESCUE IN THAI CAVE ENTRAPMENT
When a flash flood trapped 12 boys and their soccer coach inside a Thai cave, specialists from 18 countries arrived to help with the rescue. A diverse team of volunteers included Navy SEALS, international caving experts, police, military personnel, border guards—and the Calgary offices of a U.S. geospatial engineering firm. APEGA permit-holder Intermap Technologies Corporation was called on to help rescuers visualize the complete interior of the cave, which had never been mapped. Within hours of receiving a call
for help, staffers combined the company’s digital elevation model with known cave patterns to determine the best access points and drilling locations. They also created maps with information on cave dimensions, locations where water could enter and exit, and the potential outcomes of a storm, helping rescuers figure out where the team was likely to have found shelter. Then Intermap collaborated with MappointAsia and Thailand's Chiang Mai University to turn their data into 3D models that the
rescuers could use to plan the extraction. In a Calgary Herald article, an executive vice-president of Intermap—who’s also a University of Calgary alumnus—heaped praise on the Schulich School of Engineering. Ivan Maddox said Intermap couldn’t have done what it did without expertise that originated at the school. “The University of Calgary is a world leader in geomatics engineering. It doesn’t just lead the geomatics engineering industry. It defines the industry on a global scale.”
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