Weeneebayko Area Health Authority Redevelopment

Rank 2025

49

Image Credit: KASIAN ARCHITECTURE ONTARIO INC.

Industry Sector: Buildings

Project Type: Health Care

Project Value: $1.8 billion

Funding Source: Public

Province: Ontario

City / Region: Moosonee

Estimated End Date of Substantial Completion: 2030

This project is being delivered using a progressive Public-Private Partnership (P3) Design Build Finance (DBF) model. Once complete, the new regional health campus will allow WAHA to expand its health promotion and capacity building programs, better accommodate primary health care services and provide improved access to Indigenous communities living along Ontario’s James Bay and Hudson Bay coasts. The project includes an acute care hospital, a larger 24-hour emergency department, a new 32-bed Elder Care Lodge, modern state-of-the-art suites, expanded mental health and addictions programming, residences for staff, and a hostel for patients and visitors.

Project Owner: Weeneebayko Area Health Authority

Project/Construction Manager: Procurement Manager: Infrastructure Ontario

P3 Team Members/Project Team: DBF Team: Pomerleau Healthcare Partners Construction: Pomerleau Inc. Design Team: Kasian Architecture; Bertrand Wheeler Architects (Long Term Elder Care Lodge, Patient Hostel and Staff Accommodation); Stantec (illustrative design) Financial Advisor: PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP

Other Key Players: A.W. Hooker Associates Ltd. (independent certifier); EY (management consultant/risk advisor); GHD (geotechnical studies); Hanscomb (cost consultant)

Legal: Borden Ladner Gervais (advisor to owner)