Barrie-Simcoe Emergency
Services Campus

Barrie, Ontario

The concept for the Barrie-Simcoe Emergency Services Campus is to bring together the Barrie Police Service, Barrie Fire and Emergency Service and Simcoe County Paramedic Services together on a shared campus in a partnership arrangement where each party will benefit. Through shared space and staff amenities, each partner will have access to more efficient and improved facilities as compared to what would be feasible or affordable in separate standalone buildings.

With the complexities of a multi-stakeholder facility, tight budgets, and a high-profile project in the eyes of the public, an Integrated Project Delivery approach (IPD) to design and construction has been utilized. IPD represented an optimal path to best align expectations and outcomes across every possible dimension of the Barrie-Simcoe Emergency Services Campus project. It further offered the opportunity for the City of Barrie to demonstrate leadership not only in the creation of a unique building type (the shared facility), but to the AEC industry in terms of its delivery process.

Rendering of the three building Emergency Services campus.
An individual walks up a large, multileveled, white staircase. Large thing rectangular lights are hung in the atrium in the middle of the staircase.
Windows line the outside of the building. Long different shaped and slightly different coloured grey and white panels are aligned vertically along the outside.
A large rectangular conference table surrounded by black desk chairs.
A blurred figure with a backpack walks through a locker room. A wooden bench sits in the middle of the room. Grey steel lockers line the walls.
A police SUV is parking outside of the building. An blurred officer, in uniform, carrying a bag, walks away from an entrance to the building.