The new facility provides the building infrastructure and support systems necessary to manage disaster-type events as well as daily emergency operations. It is completely self-sufficient, with its own diverse emergency power and communications sources, water, food and waste disposal systems.

Morrison Hershfield and its team created a scalable design for the facility that allows for easy future expansion to accommodate the Region’s growth over the next twenty years. The  team worked closely with representatives of all emergency services for York Region to assess stakeholder needs, requirements and to understand their daily operational activities. The result was a detailed space analysis and program, conceptual design drawings and project construction cost estimate for this complex and important facility.