Gander & Grand Falls-Windsor Homes

In 2018, G architects was awarded 2 long-term care home developments in Central Newfoundland - Gander Long-Term Care Home and Grand Falls-Windsor Long-Term Care Home. These projects were procured through a P3 contract in a Design-Build-Finance arrangement. Our team was led by Pomerleau Construction, and the design team included WSP and A49 architects in partnership.

Construction began on the two 6,195 m² (66,685 ft²) buildings in 2019. Each building has 60 resident rooms, treatment spaces, outdoor therapy space, and accessible wandering paths. In addition, each building has a hospitality suite for family members of residents that are in palliative care, a salon, a family celebration room, a multi-purpose room, and a spiritual room.

These homes used a small home model to create 15-bed households for greater connections between residents and staff. The projects have completed construction and are certified LEED Gold (Grand Falls-Windsor LTC) and Silver (Gander LTC).

To improve staffing efficiency, and for improved construction efficiency, the two buildings are operationally very similar and have the same household design. However, the teams worked with separate stakeholders to give each project its own identity, and had to manage different site conditions.