The Growing Up Healthy Project, Montréal Building Development, Quebec Healthcare Architecture, Images
The Growing Up Healthy Project in Montréal
Healthcare Architecture Canada Рdesign by Provencher_Roy + Associ̩s | Menk̬s Shooner Dagenais LeTourneux Architectes
13 Mar 2017
The CHU Sainte-Justine
Design: Provencher_Roy + Associés | Menkès Shooner Dagenais LeTourneux Architectes
Location: Montréal, Canada
The CHU Sainte-Justine’s – “Growing Up Healthy” Project

More than six years after the project was launched, the CHU Sainte-Justine’s new building is now accessible. Designed in consortium by Menkès Shooner Dagenais LeTourneux Architectes and Provencher_Roy, the ?Growing Up Healthy? expansion and modernization project enables the hospital to more adequately meet the needs of mothers and children with respect to specialized care and services, while supporting research, education, technological advancement and health promotion. The new, roughly 130,000-square-metre construction increases the institution’s total surface area by 65% and houses the Special Care Unit, the Research Centre, a new thermal power station, and a four-level underground parking facility.

The seven-storey building is located to the west of the existing hospital and is connected to it via footbridges and underground passages. It is comprised of specialized pediatric and surgery wards, a 14-room surgical unit, a unit for high-risk pregnancies, a labour...