Infrastructure Ontario

MECP-MLITSD Science Facility Complex

The new complex will bring together existing operations into a single, modern, science and laboratory facility that will strengthen capacity to deliver on critical mandates of protecting the environment, public health, and safety.

The new Science Facility Complex will permanently replace Ontario's Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks’ (MECP) facility at 125 Resources Road and Ministry of Labour, Immigration, Training and Skills Development’s (MLITSD) temporary facility at 6295 Northam Drive (formerly at 81A Resources Road).

HH Angus’ Science and Technology team is providing compliance (PDC) engineering services for this Design-Build-Finance-Maintain (DBFM) infrastructure project that will protect public health and the environment through advanced monitoring of radiological materials, environmental contaminants, and live viruses. The new facility will have purpose-built, flexible design to allow for adaptable laboratories, science workshop spaces, and offices to support both current operations and future growth.

SERVICES
Mechanical Compliance Engineering | Electrical Compliance Engineering | ICAT Compliance Engineering

PROJECT FEATURES
P3-DBFM | Targeting LEED Silver certification | Flexible and adaptable laboratory and office spaces | Status: Ongoing

LOCATION
Oakville, Ontario

Michael Garron Hospital

Patient Care Centre ICAT Strategy

HH Angus was engaged as part of the Compliance team for the new eight-storey Patient Care Centre at Michael Garron Hospital (MGH), formerly Toronto East General.

The project also included a three-storey connection, as well as demolition and renovations to the existing hospital. MGH is a large community hospital serving the diverse Toronto community of East York. Many of the buildings are old, some dating from 1927.

Angus Connect assisted in developing a long term IT strategic vision for the Hospital, including directions, gap analysis, strategic recommendations and Information Technology (IT) solution options for IT to support the hospital moving forward. The Hospital aimed to achieve EMRAM level 7, the highest level in becoming a paperless and digital facility. It also looked to identify automation opportunities to become a smarter hospital. Angus Connect fulfilled the Compliance role for the Hospital, preparing the PSOS for ICAT systems and integration requirements in integration matrix and interoperability use case definition.

The new Patient Care Centre redevelopment was the first phase in the master plan for the site, addressing the highest priorities – namely, consolidated facilities for outpatient services, replacement of inpatient beds in older wings, and several related non-clinical areas. The Redevelopment adds approximately 550,000 ft2, including a new tower to house inpatient and mental health beds, ambulatory clinics and a new underground parkade. It also included approximately 100,000 ft2 of renovation within the existing facility, including a Cardiac Catheterization Suite and administrative areas. The project has been certified LEED v4 BD+C Silver.

As the Angus Connect team developed the technical output specifications, they reviewed options for phasing and system integration. Design standards and technical guidelines, incorporation of operations, life cycle and maintainability requirements are of the utmost importance for this project, as the facilities’ operation and maintenance became the responsibility of the Hospital upon completion of construction.

SERVICES
Compliance Engineer for ICAT Design

PROJECT FEATURES
8-storey patient care centre | 3-storey connection to existing hospital | Completion 2023

LOCATION
Toronto, Ontario

Image Courtesy of Michael Garron Hospital

Confidential Client

Quebec Data Centre

HH Angus provided comprehensive engineering services for the design, development, and implementation of a state-of-the-art data centre.

HH Angus was responsible for the design of the facility’s mechanical, plumbing, lighting, fire protection and building environmental control systems. This facility is split into critical and non-critical areas. The critical areas included mechanical and electrical rooms housing equipment supporting the main server spaces. The non-critical areas included administrative spaces such as meeting rooms, open offices, telecommunication service entry rooms, technical spaces housing servers supporting site operations, and a loading dock. Beyond the footprint of this building, our scope of services also extended to ancillary site structures such as the main gate guardhouse, water treatment buildings, fire pump buildings, and the deployment of private weather stations.

HH Angus implemented an evaporative cooling system to support critical IT servers. Our team designed a water treatment facility and rainwater harvesting system with a detailed metering scheme, giving the Owner visibility into water use. This made the facility water-neutral and self-sufficient year-round, eliminating reliance on municipal water for cooling.

SERVICES
Advisory Services | Mechanical Engineering | Lighting Design | Fire Protection | Building & Environmental Systems

PROJECT FEATURES
N+1 redundant mechanical systems
to ensure continuous uptime | Completed March 2026

LOCATION
Confidential, Quebec

KEY SCOPE ELEMENTS
Feasibility study | Energy modeling | Facility design to eliminate reliance on municipal water for cooling

Government of Canada

Sir John A. Macdonald Building

“The Government of Canada recognized that rehabilitation of the Macdonald Building would support the federal agenda to incorporate innovative, sustainable and environmentally responsible design into all of their buildings.”

PWGSC website

The Macdonald Building in Ottawa was undergoing extensive renovation and upgrades to its structure and systems, most of which were original to the 1930s construction and fell short of modern building codes. Key elements of the redevelopment included improvements in energy efficiency, long-term durability, indoor air quality and other measures. Heritage conservation was also a key consideration of the upgrades, with the objective of improving long term operational results and building integrity.

Engaged as the vertical transportation consultant, HH Angus executed a complex adaptive rehabilitation of the elevator space in the Macdonald Building to meet modern accessibility standards and building codes.

The majority of inter-floor movement is intended to be accommodated by stairways, with the single passenger elevator configured to ensure barrier-free access to occupied floors. This same elevator was configured to accommodate a stretcher (measuring up to 610 mm wide x 2010 mm long) in the prone position.

Two service elevators were provided to address all material handling requirements for the facility, providing a vertical connection from the new loading dock, which was part of the redevelopment. The service elevators are located adjacent to each other and, as such, provide service redundancy for the facility in the event that one elevator is not available.

The single LU/LA* features access restrictions to ensure that use of this elevating device is limited to staff, appreciating that there may be an occasional need for public use (under the direct supervision of staff) in cases where the passenger elevator is not available.

*Limited Use/Limited Application – a specialized type of elevator designed for commercial accessibility

SERVICES
Vertical Transportation Consultant

PROJECT FEATURES
Complex adaptive rehabilitation of office space | Completed 2015

LOCATION
Ottawa, Ontario

KEY SCOPE ELEMENTS
Renovation project | 1 passenger elevator, 1 LU/LA elevator, 2 service elevators providing redundant capacity

Government of Canada

G20 Summit RCMP Installation

When the 2010 G20 Summit unexpectedly relocated from Huntsville, ON to Toronto on very short notice, preparations instantly went into overdrive. The Summit represented at that time, the largest and most expensive security operation in Canada. All work, from blank page to final installation, was completed in just three weeks, as a result of the change of venue.

HH Angus was engaged under complete secrecy to provide mechanical, electrical and complex communications design to the RCMP G20 offices at the Toronto Dominion Centre, reworking existing conditions on two floors to meet the very tight schedule. The complexity of the installation and the accelerated timeline for the design/build required a high degree of collaboration with the client, the interior designer and the contractor.

The design/build project called for fibre optic service to be routed to 28 workstations, complete with highly secure fiber optics backbone cables on two floors for security monitoring. At the same time, we completed design and installation of over 1300 CAT6 UTP data cables for 420 workstations. Some workstations were serviced with as many as 12 strands of fibre optic cable. A total of more than 300 strands of fiber optic cable were installed to the desks. Tamper-proof conduit was only one of the specialized features implemented to deliver the security levels required for the operational aspect of the location.

Although the installation was temporary, it had to be built as if it was permanent. While the mechanical and electrical work was relatively straightforward, the communications installation was highly complex and ultra secure, in addition to being completely confidential. In the entire company, only three people at HH Angus knew the work being done was for the G20 Summit.

SERVICES
Mechanical Engineering | Electrical Engineering | Communications Design

PROJECT FEATURES
Accelerated delivery schedule | Complex installation | 44,000 ft2 | Completed 2010

LOCATION
Toronto, Ontario

KEY SCOPE ELEMENTS
Extraordinary degree of coordination required | Highly collaborative approach | 420 workstations serviced with over 1300 CAT6 UTP data cables, and 28 workstations serviced with highly secure fibre optics for security monitoring