This project renovated the 50-year-old, four-storey South and West Wings, providing state-of-the-art lab systems, aquaria, informal research spaces, classrooms, seminar rooms, and gathering spaces for the botany and zoology departments. The energy-efficient systems will save UBC approximately $1 million in utility costs every five years, and drastically reduce its environmental footprint. Construction was completed ahead…
This three-storey medical school contains classrooms, seminar rooms, undergraduate labs, academic offices, and meeting rooms. One unique feature is the distance-learning technology, including a massive 46-foot/14-metre-long screen that can display up to four video feeds at the same time, allowing for live lectures from other centres to be shown worldwide. Mechanical Systems Description: MCW designed…
This facility encompasses several Vancouver Police Department (VPD) divisions: Property and Evidence, Property and Forensic Vehicle Examination, and Information Management. Property and evidence storage is designed to accommodate all possible forms of evidence, including DNA samples, drugs, and firearms. Freezer rooms and climate controls protect the evidence from deterioration. A blood drying room, used to…
The main detachment building was renovated to accommodate the redeployment of general duty members to the main detachment and allow for projected growth in RCMP members and support staff over the next few years. The interior renovations improved multiple departments, including interview rooms, the emergency call centre, the evidence room, and training rooms. The project…
Located on Vancouver’s popular and scenic English Bay, this new restaurant replaces the old Vancouver Park Board concession stand adjacent to the existing historic bathhouse. Featuring 1,300 sq ft/121 sqm of outdoor patio space, the restaurant boasts myriad sustainable features, including a green roof, an organic herb garden on the second level of the restaurant,…
This library incorporates several sustainable features, including natural daylighting, a green roof, geoexchange heating, and an underground cistern that collects rainwater from the roof, which is in turn used for landscape irrigation. Electrical Systems Description: MCW’s varied lighting designs suit the requirements of individual spaces, such as conference and seminar rooms, catalogue research areas, computer…
This project involved tenant improvements to the Vancouver Police Department’s old Main Street headquarters and new annex building. The three-storey annex building, located at 236 East Cordova Street, houses the VPD’s BEAT, Commissionaire, Victim Services, Crown Liaison Unit, High Risk Offenders, and Sex Trade Worker Liaison offices. Amenities provided at the annex building include: firearms…
Project Description This RCMP building replaced an existing building that had been in use since 1977. The primary objective was responding to the needs of increased policing requirements in Golden and surrounding areas. The new building serves as a standalone building for the detachment, offering full facilities for office and field staff. These facilities include…
Located near the end of YVR’s south runway, this park is a prime location for plane spotting and picnicking. The park features a raised central plaza with a giant globe, signage stylized to look like tail wings, a viewing platform with information boards, new walking trails and enhanced runway paths, reincorporated memorial benches and picnic…
This complex comprises two new apartment buildings for seniors. The wood-frame buildings – Cypress and Terrace – contain a total of 139 affordable seniors’ housing apartments. The buildings were constructed on the site of six smaller apartment buildings, built about 50 years ago, that were demolished to make way for the new project. Cypress and…