Progress

The Ottawa Hospital’s new campus is being built on a 50-acre site bordered by Carling Avenue, Preston Street, and Prince of Wales Drive, near Dow’s Lake in Ottawa. It will be home to a new state-of-the-art hospital, an ambulatory care and research building, life sciences buildings, parking garage and an energy efficient central utility plant.

Latest news/updates

Nov. 19, 2024:

Construction update: work is currently underway on the intersection at Carling Avenue and Champagne Avenue, where there will be an entrance into the new campus. Most of the updates are planned to be completed before the new year. Some seasonal work will continue into the spring of 2025. 

Some work on the parking garage will require access to the Trillium Line LRT trench. Construction crews will endeavor to complete as much work as possible during regular hours. However, some City-approved overnight work will be required over the next few weeks. Crews will make every possible effort to limit noise overnight.

Planning and development

The Ottawa Hospital works closely with provincial, municipal, and federal governments on planning the new campus. The Ontario Ministry of Health approves each stage of development, and the master site plan was approved by the City of Ottawa and the National Capital Commission in 2021. As plans are finalized for each stage of work on the site, the site plan is refined through approvals processes and feedback to ensure that the new hospital will meet the needs of our community, surrounding region and everyone we serve. 

Since February 2024, The Ottawa Hospital, Infrastructure Ontario, The Ottawa Hospital Build Partners, and the Ontario Ministry of Health have been working through a Development Phase Agreement to collaboratively to finalize designs, costs and construction schedule for the main hospital. This work will continue through 2025.

A $59 million federal grant announced in May 2024 meant TOH could continue plans to build a world-class Biotherapeutics Manufacturing Centre (BMC) at the new campus. The new BMC will boost local and national capacity to develop and manufacture life-saving biotherapeutics, including vaccines, gene therapies and cell therapies. This investment was made through the federal government’s integrated Canada Biomedical Research Fund and Biosciences Research Infrastructure Fund. 

The Ottawa Hospital continues to collaborate with Hydro Ottawa on plans for an energy efficient Central Utility Plant on the site. 

Construction

Construction on the parking garage to support the new campus started in the spring of 2023. In summer 2024, the garage began taking shape with the installation of large precast concrete elements section by section. As of October 2024, the east side of the parking garage near Preston Street and Prince of Wales Drive was in place. Construction on the west side of the garage began in November 2024. The two will be connected as a single structure over the top of the Trillium Line of the LRT trench. 

Site preparation is ongoing in the area where the main hospital will be built. Civil works, including utilities, work on site roads and work to connect the site to city streets have begun, and are planned to be completed before construction begins on the main hospital building.  

Throughout the project, TOH is working closely with arborists to preserve as many trees as possible. Because some trees will have to be removed due to construction, a tree conservation plan was developed with input by arborists and in consultation with the City of Ottawa and the National Capital Commission, and with TOH’s master site plan approved by the City of Ottawa. 

The aerial video below (from July) shows progress on the parking garage and the location of where the main hospital will be built. 

The photo gallery below shows the progress made since early 2023 on the parking garage that will support the new hospital.  

Project Milestones