The PCL family of companies has announced that two of its projects ?Humber River Hospital and Toronto Pan Am Sports Centre ? have been recognized by Engineering News Record?s (ENR) Global Best Project Awards, an annual competition that highlights teamwork and overcoming hurdles of designing and building internationally. 
Industry veterans selected 23 projects from 15 different countries and five continents. The judges looked at projects in many markets and examined safety performance, innovations, challenges, and design and construction quality ? with a special emphasis on the diversity of global project teams and their collaboration. 
The Humber River Hospital, designed by HDR Architecture Associates Inc., is one of Canada?s largest acute care hospitals, serving a catchment area of more than 850,000 people in the northwest Greater Toronto Area. The Hospital?s goal for the project was to create a facility driven by efficiency where staff and physicians could deliver the highest level of patient and family?centered care in an environment so revolutionized that it would be recognized as the most energy efficient, fully?digital acute care hospital in North America. The design of the new hospital takes inspiration from the architecture of Toronto, following clean rectilinear lines and using primarily glass, metal panel, precast concrete and masonry. The most prominent form of the hospital is the 14?storey inpatient tower which has a patient capacity of 656 beds. The new fa...