The new complex brings together the Office of the Chief Coroner, the Ontario Forensic Pathology Service, the Centre of Forensic Sciences, the Office of the Fire Marshall, and Emergency Management Ontario on one site making collaboration between the units much easier. The state-of-the-art lab facilities and court rooms has allowed for enhance investigations and outcomes that suggest that the facility is among the best performing of its type in North America.
The LEED gold certified facility includes environmentally friendly features such as the use of low flow water technologies and drought tolerant native or adaptive plants. The facility is BOMA Best Certified Platinum, the highest credential an existing, operating, building can receive in environmental assessment and certification.
The form and function of the building design effectively balances the demands of several independent user groups and various physical and evidence security requirements within a single integrated and cohesive state of the art facility.
One of the world’s largest medico-legal facilities, the facility features one of Canada’s only Containment Level 3 autopsy labs. Other highlights include CT, MRI and digital x-ray technology, dedicated video testimony rooms, courtrooms for coroner inquests and naturally lit labs with specialized ventilation systems. The facility also features advanced evidence security systems, training facilities and a science library.
The new complex brings together the Office of the Chief Coroner, the Ontario Forensic Pathology Service, the Centre of Forensic Sciences, the Office of the Fire Marshall, and Emergency Management Ontario on one site making collaboration between the units much easier. The state-of-the-art lab facilities and court rooms has allowed for enhance investigations and outcomes that suggest that the facility is among the best performing of its type in North America.
The LEED gold certified facility includes environmentally friendly features such as the use of low flow water technologies and drought tolerant native or adaptive plants. The facility is BOMA Best Certified Platinum, the highest credential an existing, operating, building can receive in environmental assessment and certification.
The form and function of the building design effectively balances the demands of several independent user groups and various physical and evidence security requirements within a single integrated and cohesive state of the art facility.
One of the world’s largest medico-legal facilities, the facility features one of Canada’s only Containment Level 3 autopsy labs. Other highlights include CT, MRI and digital x-ray technology, dedicated video testimony rooms, courtrooms for coroner inquests and naturally lit labs with specialized ventilation systems. The facility also features advanced evidence security systems, training facilities and a science library.
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City
Toronto, ON
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Completion Date
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Square Footage
663,000sqft
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Status
Operational
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Value
$497,000,000
About the Forensic Services and Coroner’s Complex Project
In June 2010, Concert secured its first public-private partnership project, co-leading the design, build, finance, and maintenance of the new 663,000 square feet Forensic Services and Coroner’s Complex (FSCC) located at the Downsview Complex in Toronto, Ontario. The Facility is an advanced medico-legal facility.
The project is being delivered under Ontario’s alternative financing and procurement framework with annual payments from the Ontario Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services over a 30-year term. The payments cover the design, construction, project financing and building maintenance for the 30-year project concession period following the completion of construction. The concession period concludes in 2043. The project has a contract value of $497.0 million.
Canadian Council for Public-Private Partnerships (CCPPP) Silver Award recipient in the Service Delivery category of the 2017 National Awards for Innovation and Excellence in Public-Private Partnerships (P3s).
Other Awards:
2014 American Institute of Architects Justice Facility Review Award of Merit
2015 P3 Bulletin Gold Award for Best Designed Project
2020 BOMA Best National Earth Award Universal Category
Concert Infrastructure’s Involvement
In June 2010, Concert Infrastructure secured the opportunity to co-lead the delivery of the Forensic Services Coroner’s Complex project under a design, build, finance and maintain project agreement with the concession period concluding in 2043.
Concert Infrastructure holds 100% equity interest in CSS (FSCC) Partnership, the project company responsible for the delivery and management of the project.
About Concert Infrastructure
Concert Infrastructure was founded in 2010 to partner with governments and invest in, develop and manage critical public infrastructure that strengthens the economic and social fabric of Canadian communities, while providing stable financial returns for our Canadian union and management pension plan unitholders.
The company has directly invested in and manages 12 public-private partnership (P3) infrastructure projects across four provinces and one territory in Canada, along with two investments in global infrastructure portfolios, resulting in an aggregate portfolio capitalization of $3.8 billion.