Athabasca Basin Health Facility
Location: On reserve, near Stony Rapids, northern Saskatchewan
Electrical Budget: $1.3 million

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About the Project
Operated by the Athabasca Health Authority, this facility is a full service acute and long-term care hospital and community health centre. It serves native and non-native residents in northern Saskatchewan. The facility provides both modern and traditional native health care practices, and it is the first time a provincial government has agreed to build a hospital on reserve.

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Humboldt Electric's Work
As we do on most of our projects, we provided top to bottom electrical work for the health facility, from the basics of getting power to the site to finishing off all the plugs and lights. We also installed more advanced features on this project, including call systems, security and fire alarms, and a back up generator system. The geography of this project presented a challenge for us. Materials had to be flown or barged in during the summer, while in the winter season we trucked materials in over frozen lakes.

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Key Challenges

• Ensuring the quality of critical systems
• Transporting materials to a remote location
• Working alongside multiple trades on a complex project

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