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Windsor Regional Hospital president David Musyj, right, and John Aquino, vice-president of Bondfield Construction Company, pose with a rendering of a renovated Western Campus building June 5, 2009 at a news conference.
Photograph by: DAN JANISSE, The Windsor Star
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Author: By Dave Battagello, The Windsor Star
Published: June 5, 2009
WINDSOR -- A Toronto area construction company has been awarded the $91.6-million redevelopment project for the western campus of Windsor Regional Hospital in an announcement made Friday on the grounds of the west-end facility.
Concord-based Bondfield Construction, which has a lengthy list of health care construction projects across the province, will stage a groundbreaking ceremony on June 24, said vice-president John Aquino.
The project will provide 220 construction jobs and Bondfield has committed as part of its agreement with Infrastructure Ontario and the hospital that 80 per cent will be local workers.
That was good news, said Jim Lyons, president of the Windsor Construction Association, who also attended the announcement.
"We are very hungry for the construction jobs this project is bringing to the community," he said. "We have many skilled workers sitting aroundwaiting to get back into their field."
Construction is expected to be completed in the spring of 2012. The highlight of the western campus modernization will include a 65-bed specialized mental health hospital that will add 200 full-time jobs. It will allow Windsor patients in a St. Thomas facility to return to the city.
Article courtesy of the The Windsor Star |
