Fewer surprises on site for an acute-care hospital build

Overview

Buildcheck reviewed 355 drawing sheets for an acute-care hospital project at Oakville Trafalgar Memorial Hospital and detected 116 issues — from fire and smoke separation gaps to infection-control and medical gas coordination conflicts.

Challenge

Design coordination errors compound across multiple blocks, levels, and dozens of specialty disciplines. Unresolved coordination leading to rework in a phased, infection-controlled healthcare space is costly and disruptive — and element-by-element manual checking is tedious and difficult to staff consistently.

Examples of issues found:

• Fire & smoke separation: Corridor doors scheduled non-rated where a fire rating is required
• Infection control: Pressure differential specified for negative-pressure isolation rooms but not for positive-pressure rooms
• MEP conflicts: Medical gas equipment branching from a single supply point with no zone valve isolation
• Missing information: Door hardware schedule referenced on the security riser but absent from the project set

Solution

Buildcheck is an AI-powered platform that centralizes collaboration while automatically detecting errors, omissions, and inconsistencies within design documents. After a set of training sessions, EllisDon’s project team ran reviews on the platform on their own.

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Where the value materialized