Friday Photo Shoot Out: Under Construction

This week's Shoot Out theme is Under Construction. Ho Ho. I just happen to have a construction zone right outside my window. The Centre Jean Perrin is modernizing. Has to: the health department would shut us down otherwise. Here's the plan. That helpful arrow shows where my office is right now. Yeah, in what will be a parking lot. For the moment I'm still here.
A couple of months ago they started digging on our side of the hospital.
The backhoes came right up to the wall - our secretaries' office is just on the other side of that wall and sometimes they thought the machines would break through.

Then the foundation was laid and a forest of reinforcing rods sprang up, like grass after a rain. It didn't take long for all those rods to be encased in concrete walls.
Now we look outside and see the embryonic windows of the new radiotherapy department.

The construction makes our little annex tremble so much that our cat sometimes hides in the copy & mail corner.

Out front they have a much bigger hole to dig.

This is where the new hospitalization wing will be. Only 86 beds or so; it's smaller than our current capacity, and they'll all be private rooms. It seems strange to go to the trouble to make a whole new building, a larger one, and put in fewer rooms, but they say they're moving toward shorter stays and more outpatient care. With the higher turnover, we're expected to care for more patients, not fewer. I'm not convinced of the math.

So they're working on it.

I'll keep bringing the camera once a month or so, keeping track of the progress.

What a lot of us really want is a multi-level parking lot, but we're not likely to get one. Every time they build here we lose parking, and none of it is ever replaced (the parking area in the model does not quite make up for the lost spaces they've dug up already).

Happy New Year, everyone!

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