Site safety testing is underway after a fire spread through the construction site of a new health centre in Brampton on Monday night.

Engineers from the Ontario labour ministry have been brought in to examine the damage before an investigation can begin. A cause has not yet been determined.

Brampton Fire was called to site of the former Peel Memorial Hospital at around 7:30 p.m. Monday. Firefighters didn’t enter the building, but were able to extinguish the flames from the outside by about 1 a.m. Pieces were still smoldering into midday Tuesday.

The new Peel Memorial Centre was in the early stages of construction, said Brampton Fire investigator Gary Jarrett.

“There are no walls,” he said. “It’s just supports and columns holding up concrete slabs and framing.”

He said the fire will set construction back. “To what extent is yet to be determined, based on the engineering assessment that needs to occur.”

The facility has been under construction since a redevelopment project began in June. The $530-million, 350,000-square-foot health centre was due for completion in fall 2016.

The flames spread across the underside of the second floor, said Jarrett. Only underground parking garages and two levels had been built so far.

“Early indications are that damage is contained to relatively few elements of the building,” said Jennifer Nelson of PCL Constructors Canada, the company building the Peel Memorial Centre.

Nelson said no injuries were reported, and that “authorities have indicated that the fire has not impacted the air quality in the surrounding community.”

A spokesperson for Plenary Group, the company managing the project for the William Osler Health System, said Tuesday morning that they did not yet have access to the site.

“We have been working around the clock with first responders, and now authorities, as they begin their investigation into the cause of the fire,” said Olivia MacAngus.

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The Ontario Fire Marshal was consulted about the fire, but the blaze “doesn’t meet our criteria to investigate,” said OFM spokesperson Carol Gravelle. Brampton Fire did not request their assistance on site, she said.

With files from Sean Wetselaar.

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