It was purpose built as a laboratory and research building but when the hospital s new peter gilgan centre for research and learning was built to the east of the mcmaster building the lab and.
Peter gilgan centre for research and learning floors.
Peter gilgan centre for research and learning towering over bay and elm streets the peter gilgan centre for research and learning will be the new home for more than 2 000 sickkids scientists trainees and child health research staff.
Enhanced collaboration for children s health research the hospital for sick children s sickkids peter gilgan centre for research and learning is believed to be the largest health center in the world devoted to children s health research.
To stay at the leading edge of research sickkids is consolidating research and education in a new 21 storey 750 000 ft state of the art facility.
The peter gilgan centre for research and learning opened this week at the hospital for sick children sickkids in toronto bringing under one roof 2000 researchers trainees and staff previously dispersed throughout six buildings.
The peter gilgan centre for research and learning is the largest high rise research facility in canada.
Approximately 2 000 staff was relocated to the new facility when it opened.
Medical research facilities are most often located in low rise structures in suburban office parks but here in toronto s core the peter gilgan centre for research and learning occupies an entire 21 storey tower weighing in with over 140 000 tonnes of concrete glass and steel and holding a whopping 852 748 square feet of floor space.
At 21 stories the hospital for sick children s sickkids peter gilgan centre for research and learning is the largest child health research tower in the world and canada s largest pediatric centre.
The hospital for sick children sickkids peter gilgan centre for research and learning 686 bay street 8 th floor south 08 9709 toronto on m5g 0a4 tel.
750 000 square feet plus three levels of underground parking.
Within the 21 story tower more than 2 000 scientists and staff previously scattered in six different locations are conducting state of the art.
Given the building s dense urban context the gilgan centre provides sickkids with a new identity in vertical neighborhood form.
The state of the art laboratory and learning facilities are.