Peterborough Long-Term Care Home
Peterborough, ON
Peterborough Long-Term Care Home located on Trent university land, is a 12,564 sq.m, 4-storey building that provides 224 new beds for long-term residents. In addition to private suites, the first floor of the building also houses the multipurpose rooms, Bistro and training rooms. Additionally, the building includes lounges and dining area on each floor, and balconies facing the courtyard.
The building’s structural system consists of Insulated Concrete Forms (ICF) exterior walls, Cast-In Place (CIP) concrete interior walls, and hollowcore precast concrete slabs for the floors. Steel Deltabeams and columns were used to support precast slabs. The use of flush deltabeams allows for reduced floor to floor heights, easier mechanical coordination, while also maintaining fire rating between floors. The building sits on conventional pad and strip footings. The front building canopy is made of conventional steel frames, steel columns on conventional concrete piers and concrete footings.
Utilizing ICF for the walls of the structures allows for better insulation and curing of the concrete in harsh winter conditions, additionally it allows for faster and more efficient construction. Precast hollowcore slabs are also popular in the construction industry for their time saving, as they are transported to site once cured, and placed where needed, speeding up the construction process.
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