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 PCGI Fall Fête – Celebrating 10 YearsPCGI will be celebrating 10 years of contributing to our clients’ and colleagues’ success. Join us on October 24, 2006 at the CN Tower, Horizon’s Café. You are reminded to RSVP to Carrie Han. |
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New Projects |
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Borealis Purchase of MDS Diagnostics On behalf of Borealis Infrastructure, PCGI has been working with the MDS Diagnostics management team to facilitate the development of an integrated plan for the migration of the $1.325 Billion acquisition that was announced on October 5, 2006. The migration plan includes the implementation of initiatives across all functional areas of the MDS Diagnostics business including Finance, HR, Operations, Supply Chain Management, Real Estate, Information Technology, Communications, and Legal. |
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(IO) Infrastructure Ontario’s new PM/ Project Delivery Best Practices PCGI has been invited to work very closely with Stantec Consulting and the IO Project Management Office to contribute to the development and documentation of IO's project management, project delivery and project planning/ scheduling best practices. This work includes both Build-Finance and Design-Build-Finance-Manage delivery models. |
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Recent Client Success Stories |
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Bank of Montreal - Barrie Computer Centre - IT and Facility Integration PCGI enabled the Bank of Montreal to deliver a state-of-the-art data centre (325,000 sq.ft.) on a fast-tracked schedule. Providing the bridge between the IT Client and the Facility team, PCGI planned and managed the integration requirements through the development of a cohesive project plan. Occupancy was successfully achieved on June 30, 2006 in order to meet the mandated regulatory deadline. |
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Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) – Operations Planning  PCGI has been providing project leadership in the operational planning associated with the CAMH multi-phase redevelopment. Through facilitated planning workshops, PCGI integrated the site redevelopment with the operational requirements to create an overall Operations Plan. For a copy of a recent CAMH article on the operational planning process, please click here. |
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Youth Centre in Brampton  The Ministry of Children and Youth Services (MCYS) has recently engaged PCGI to create an integrated operational readiness plan to ensure that people, processes, and technology are in-place for the Fall 2008 opening of the facility. |
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Health Care News |
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 Ontario’s Early Wave of HealthcarePCGI has been busy helping a number of our healthcare clients get to market. These include Bluewater Health, Sault Regional Hospital, Sudbury Area Hospital, and Sunnybrook’s M-wing expansion. These projects are part of the early wave of build-finance or modified DBFM projects being released by Infrastructure Ontario. It’s going to be a busy fall! |
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New Design-Build-Finance-Manage (DBFM)’s – Humber River Regional Hospital, Halton Healthcare Services PCGI is part of the hospitals’ management team in developing the implementation plan for the new greenfield hospitals for both Humber River Regional Hospital and Halton Healthcare Services (Oakville site). Both hospital's are following the new AFP delivery model under the oversight of Infrastructure Ontario. Early planning includes strategies for securing site, zoning and site plan agreements, completing their Master Program, Master Plan and Functional Program, and position themselves to better inform the Project Specific Output Specification process. |
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Strathroy Middlesex General Hospital (SMGH) – Redevelopment Complete! SMGH recently completed an expanded Emergency and Ambulatory Care department as part of a new addition, along with an expanded Post Op, Day Surgery, and DI departments. PCGI is pleased to have been a partner throughout the process, to plan and successfully implement the project. Our congratulations to SMGH on the official ribbon cutting on September 8, 2006! |
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Kingston General Hospital (KGH) – Implementation Planning PCGI has been engaged by KGH to provide project implementation planning for both the Kingston General Hospital renovation and addition (under traditional MOH Capital Planning) and the new Providence Continuing Care Centre (under AFP process). Also included is portfolio/program management for the KGH portfolio of smaller operational projects, including sequence of construction work review to reduce operational risks to KGH. |
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Sudbury Regional Hospital – Occupancy Planning The SHOP Group has been awarded the occupancy implementation for Sudbury Regional’s major expansion project. The SHOP Group, comprised of the team of EHE International, Nicholls Yallowega Bélanger Architects and PCGI, offers a combination of occupancy planning, scheduling, and local hands-on move coordination to undertake occupancy implementation for Sudbury Regional Hospital. |
PCGI Team News |
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Raising the Bar on Facilitation PCGI will be “raising the bar” on Facilitation. Throughout the month of November, the entire PCGI team will be participating in a customized workshop through Schulich’s Executive Education Centre. This workshop will enhance our ability to foster individual buy-in and better engage stakeholders in the planning process. We look forward to bringing these enhanced skills to our clients’ projects. |
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