St. Joseph’s Health Care was procured as a design, build, finance and maintain (DBFM) project for two new specialized mental health care facilities in the greater London, Ontario area. The larger of the two buildings located at the Parkwood Hospital lands in London, is a Regional Mental Health facility. The second facility, the Southwest Centre for Forensic Mental Healthcare, located in St. Thomas, Ontario, is a Minimum and Medium Secure Forensics building with capacity for 89 beds. The 233,640sqft facility was designed to provide a secure environment for the evaluation, treatment and rehabilitation of patients in the Forensics Program who have been placed in the facility under the direction of the Ontario Legal System. The 3 storey building has been carefully integrated with the pastoral landscape. The contemporary adaption of an ocular window and the measured use of brick and stone pay tribute to the former Psychiatric facility to the south while at the same time offsetting the adjacent heritage landscapes to the North.