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 104-cell correctional facility is divided into four living unit pods in a circular orientation, with services and activity areas, less living unit officer supervision, shorter corridors, large amounts of natural light and fresh air, and decentralized programmes. The smaller, campus-like spaces provide a better and healthier environment for the women to live and undergo…
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…
These student residence buildings add 567 beds to UBC’s residential buildings, as part of the Student Housing and Hospitality Services strategy to provide 2,500 additional beds on-campus by 2014. This increases the overall student residence spaces to 35% of the full-time student population within that period. This fast-track student residence project provided two new buildings,…
This new building, adjacent to the Annacis Island Wastewater Treatment Plant, is part of a network of academies to achieve a more sustainable Metro Vancouver. This building focuses on changing the public perception of wastewater. It includes research and lab areas, classrooms, and offices. The goals include attracting and enabling leading-edge academic and applied research,…
This secondary school boasts a number of sustainable features, including increased energy efficiency (40% over Code), a geoexchange closed loop heating/ cooling system, a weather-regulated irrigation system, durable construction, recycled and regional materials, construction waste management, riparian area restoration, and water-efficient plumbing. Mechanical Systems Description: MCW designed the plumbing and school ventilation and make-up air…
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…
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…
This unique three-storey school is built into steep terrain. The school includes 18 classrooms, a daycare, a performing arts room, an industrial arts room, a home economics room, and a gymnasium on the lowest level. Mechanical Systems Description: The mechanical designs are based on myriad sustainable principles, and feature a number of systems for displacement…