Redefining Age-care Facilities with Community Lifestyles Living
This LEED Silver Long-term Care facility replaces the Georgian Manor facility (which our firm also completed in 1985) and has been designed as a campus or “community within a community,” This 20-acre not-for-profit housing community set a new standard for seniors housing and care in Ontario.
Georgian Village Campus of Care
Client: County of Simcoe County
Categories: Institutional, Long-term Care, healthcare
Size: 311,557 sq. ft.
Construction Value: $65.4 Million
Services: Prime Consulting, Master Planning, Architectural Design, Interior Design, Contract Administration
Location: Penetanguishene ON
Status: Completed 2013 + Active New Expansions
Collaborators:
Structural – EXP Canada
Structural: Ravens Engineering Inc.
Mechanical/Electrical: EXP (former team
from MMM Group Consulting Engineers)
Civil, Transport & Low Impact Development:
Skelton Brumwell Consulting Engineers
Landscape: Schollen & Company Inc.
Food Service: Van Velzen+Radchenko
Design Associates Ltd.
Building Code: Larden Muniak
Sustainability / LEED: Enermodal
When completed, the Minister of Seniors Affairs indicated that Georgian Village is one of the best seniors’ lifestyle facilities they had ever seen.
Sustainability
The long-term care facility is taking sustainable targets in it’s stride. While budgets are dictating achievable certification, the owners of the facility are certainly engaged in taking as many elements of sustainable responsibility and applying it to their new building. Concentrating on material selection for sustainable resourcing, carbon capture characteristics and post life environmental impact evaluation, the village construction is set to achieve LEED Silver with additional checkpoints that meet some requirements of Net Zero Carbon, Net Zero Energy and Passive House.
The LEED Silver target, means the building is designed and built for improved efficiency, lower carbon emissions and creates a healthier place for the people that live, work and built it. During the design process, we used life cycle analysis tools to develop a Building Life Cycle Impact and Impact Reduction Report. This was used to help us determine building systems, materials, alternative strategies as well as estimated building performance levels once completed and occupied.
Georgian Village
This 20-acre not-for-profit housing community set a new standard for seniors housing and care in Ontario.
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The Plan
Our team performed a complete Operational Review of the existing operations with County staff, and then went on a provincial tour of other not-for-profit and for-profit homes to research different operational approaches.
All of this was done while still remaining mindful of the MOHLTC design guidelines that must be adhered to. We then went on to author the Operational Plan, and subsequently, the Functional Program for the Georgian Village Redevelopment.
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The Process
That project resulted from an exceptional collaboration of client and architect carried out in an atmosphere of mutual trust and respect. Each party brought knowledge and experience to the design and documentation forum. A pragmatic approach to decision making was adopted with a constant concern for operation, life cycle and capital costs.
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The Solution
By adopting an innovative “aging-in-place” model, the 311,557 sq. ft., LEED Silver certified Georgian Village Redevelopment is a greenfield campus project that has been designed to provide a full continuum of care.
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Recognition
This community of care has been recognized by the previous MOHLTC Minister, Deb Matthews, as a model for the province that will influence future seniors care developments.The Minister of Seniors Affairs, Mario Sergio, also indicated that Georgian Village is one of the best seniors’ lifestyle facilities he has ever seen.By providing the right care at the right time in the right place, Georgian Village has drastically improved the delivery of health services to seniors in the area.
