Rena Zheng
Calgary,AB
Summary
Skilled Planner/Architect with over 10 years’ experience in healthcare. Advanced knowledge of planning and designing a wide range of healthcare facilities. Designs highly functional facilities that meet highest standards for facility compliance and certification. Organized and dependable candidate successful at managing multiple priorities with a positive attitude.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Planner
Government Of Alberta, Health
03.2024 - Current
- Develop planning documents for individual projects. Ensure all options have been considered and projects are in alignment with Ministry priorities, goals, objectives, strategic directions, and health system plans.
- Analyze the planning documents and show linkages to Ministry business plans, action plans and service objectives.
- Attend planning and project meetings.
- Provide support for the development of project programming studies, capital programs and participate in collaborative oversight of capital projects.
- Prepare briefings, ministerial correspondence and responses to public inquires on a wide range of issues
- Provide support in developing the Alberta Health annual capital planning submission.
- Participate in planning, project, and program committees.
- Co-ordinates the preparations of grant funding agreements and supports the management of grants.
Strategic Capital Planner
Alberta Health Services
06.2022 - 03.2024
- Responsible for investigations and planning of the initial stages of a potential Capital Project up to and including project funding approval.
- Identifies the most appropriate, efficient, effective, accountable, and sustainable solution for complex and challenging space and clinical service challenges.
- Prepares strategic facility plans, site master plans, strategic options analysis, needs assessments, site selection/assessments, community or zone facility utilization and optimization, site specific utilization and optimization, project specific expansion or redevelopment options and opportunities.
- work collaboratively with a broad spectrum of AHS staff, including Senior Leaders to analyze and make recommendations regarding utilization of existing facilities and future facility needs.
- Oversights of consultants conducting planning work for Alberta Health Services
- Compiles costs of goods and services for projects to present decision-makers with accurate estimates and enhance budget planning.
Project Architect/Project Manager/Clinical Planner
Stantec Consulting Ltd.
10.2008 - 06.2022
- Responsible for managing complex tasks on multiple, large scope, highly complex projects.
- Leads the client and project team to assure that the project design meets the client budget, schedule, program, and design intent.
- Leads project coordination and owner/site meetings with internal team members and/or external consultants, owner and contractor and subcontractors.
- Be responsible for the clinical planning of acute or postacute healthcare facilities, through various stages of design, following “best practices” and applying Evidence Based Design
- Engages in the development of a design through sketches, physical models, electronic models, diagrams, massing studies, and other visual formats.
- Utilizes BIM technologies in development of threedimensional models of buildings and their components.
- Participates in design critiques and pin-ups.
- Interprets and applies building codes and requirements of other regulatory agencies.
- Prepares and revises documentation in various architectural phases including site plans, floor plans, building elevations, building sections and details.
- Participates in bidding and negotiation phases and prepares addenda.
- Reviews shop drawings and submittals, responds to RFIs, prepares site observation reports and other contract administration tasks.
- Participates in client project requirement meetings and value analysis including basic cost estimating.
- Assists in the preparation of the project specifications and the coordination of specs with construction documents.
- Participates in constructability reviews.
- Follows quality control procedures established by the practice.
- Conducts quality assurance and quality control on own projects.
- Projects: Participated in a wide range of healthcare projects, including but not limited to:
McCaig Tower 5th Floor Operating Suites & PACU,
Calgary, Alberta
Arthur J.E. Child Comprehensive Cancer Centre,
Calgary, Alberta
Peter Lougheed Centre, Vascular Surgery and Women's
Health Redevelopment Project, Calgary, Alberta
Cortellucci Vaughan Hospital | Mackenzie Health,
Vaughan, Ontario
Foothills Medical Center Neonatal Care Unit
Redevelopment Study, Calgary, Alberta
Alberta Children’s Hospital, Level 3 Neonatal Intensive
Care Unit, Calgary, Alberta
High Prairie Health Complex, High Prairie, Alberta
Grande Prairie Care Facility, Grande Prairie, Alberta
Education
Bachelor of Arts - Architecture
Wuhan University of Technology
Wuhan, China06.2022
Master of Arts - Architecture
McGill University
Montreal, QC09.2007
Skills
- Strategic Capital Planning and Analysis
- Clinical Facility Planning
- Project Coordination and Management
- Stakeholder Engagement
- Budget Planning and Cost Estimation
- Regulatory Compliance
- Quality Assurance and Control
- Evidence-Based Design
- BIM Technologies
Certification
Registered Architect (RA3709)
Awarded 2013-07-10
EDAC (CHD-05-9228)
Awarded 2012-02-01
LEED
Awarded 2008-11-01
Reference
Available upon Request.
Timeline
Planner
Government Of Alberta, Health
03.2024 - Current
Strategic Capital Planner
Alberta Health Services
06.2022 - 03.2024
Project Architect/Project Manager/Clinical Planner
Stantec Consulting Ltd.
10.2008 - 06.2022
Bachelor of Arts - Architecture
Wuhan University of Technology
Master of Arts - Architecture
McGill University
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