The William Osler Health Centre’s Brampton Civic Hospital opened in the fall of 2007. More than 1.2 million square feet in area on a green field site the facility contains state of the art Emergency and Imaging Departments and a specially designed padiatric area in a broadly programmed and supported acute care facility. The new hospital offers capacity for 608 acute care beds, 160,000 ambulatory care visit capacity per year, 110,000 outpatient visits annually, 90,000 emergency department visit capacity per year, 18 Operating Rooms and 95 Mental Health beds for adults and adolescents.

The project was initiated by the Province of Ontario as traditional stipulated sum procurement. Early in the design phase procurement shifted toward a Private Public Partnership (P3) or Alternative Financing and Procurement (AFP) under the authorization of Infrastructure Ontario (IO). David Carter, with Dunlop Architects and subsequently with Stantec Architecture, coordinated the development of the output specification and contractual requirements for the revised project delivery model. The same team, managed by David Carter, provided compliance review services for this very large and complex project. David was the primary client contact and key representative in discussions and negotiations with the Proponent Consortium’s Architects and Engineers through the final two years of the compliance review process.

WOHC Ouput Specification requirements and “Lessons Learned” from the collective experience of this project and other recent AFP projects, have helped to establish the framework for the Generic Output Specification (GOS) developed by Infrastructure Ontario and MOHLTC. Prior to leaving Stantec Architecture David Carter was responsible for the initial organization and preliminary development of GOS.