NEWS BRIEFS
CONSTRUCTION ACROSS CANADA
BRITISH COLUMBIA
ALBERTA Renderings unveiled for
19-storey hybrid structure
PCL Construction awarded
$1.1 billion design-build
Calgary Cancer Centre
contract Developer PortLiving has unveiled
renderings of what has been asserted
will be the world’s tallest hybrid timber
structure, designed by Pritzker Prize
winning architect Shigeru Ban.

The 19-storey Terrace House, built
from locally sourced timber, glass and
concrete, will reach 71 m. in height
and will contain a collection of private
homes in Coal Harbour, Vancouver.

Shigeru Ban Architects Americas
has designed the building, with a slop-
ing triangular roof, and will be covered
in natural materials.

“We have brought together the
best of the best – a team of true ex-
perts in creative collaboration, working
together for the first time ever on a sin-
gle project,” PortLiving founder
Macario (Tobi) Reyes said in a state-
ment. The world’s tallest timber building,
the 57 m. Brock Commons, is also in
Vancouver. On one website, a commenter
noted that the assertion that this is the
tallest wood hybrid structure may be
overstated. “Most websites report that this will
be the world’s tallest wooden hybrid
structure, but this is not true,” the
comment on Global Construction Re-
view News said. “The tallest hybrid will
be HoHo Wien in Vienna with 24-
storeys and 84 m. height. And it’s con-
struction is already ongoing and will
probably be finished by the end of
2018. No way the Terrace House will
be completed any sooner.”
PCL Construction Management Inc.

(Calgary) has been awarded the $1.1
billion design-build contract for the
new Calgary Cancer Centre.

The project is the international Ed-
monton headquartered contractor’s
largest design-build lump sum win to
date, PCL says in a news release. The
new facility will measure more than
two million sq. ft., including a 1,650-
stall underground parking garage and
a 984-linear ft. elevated walkway that
connects with existing facilities. There
will be 160 inpatient beds; 15 new ra-
diation vaults; outpatient cancer clin-
ics; a clinical trials unit; and research
laboratories. “PCL is honoured to be leading the
team that will bring this worldclass fa-
cility to Calgary, knowing that we can
help make a very real difference in our
community to cancer patients and
their families,” said PCL president and
CEO Dave Filipchuk. “Our company
takes pride in all of the projects we
build, and the Calgary Cancer Centre
will be another exceptional facility
where our healthcare building exper-
tise shines through.”
The vision for the centre is to de-
liver leading comprehensive cancer
care that integrates patient and family
focused care, education, prevention,
screening, and cancer research. It will
also be one of the most energy effi-
cient hospitals in North America, and
LEED Silver certification is targeted.

Local partners DIALOG and Stantec
are also working on the project. Con-
struction will begin in late 2017 and is
scheduled for completion in 2022.

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Whirlpool Canada breaks
ground at CN’s Calgary
Logistics Park
Whirlpool Canada has started build-
ing a new distribution centre at CN’s
Calgary Logistics Park in Rocky View
County, Alberta, in a project overseen
by developer Tribal Partners/Matthews
Southwest. “We are very pleased to welcome
Whirlpool Canada as a major tenant in
our state-of-the-art Calgary Logistics
Park,” said Andrew Fuller, assistant
vice-president of domestic intermodal
at CN. “By locating at our Calgary Lo-
gistics Park, Whirlpool can provide
customers with the supply chain and
logistics flexibility they need to service
their customers and increase their
competitiveness.” Whirlpool representatives joined
CN to break ground on the 425,000 sq.

ft. facility that will serve as a distribu-
tion centre for finished Whirlpool ap-
pliances coming to Alberta from
across North America.

Stephen Stewart, director of supply
chain at Whirlpool Canada, said: “Our
new regional distribution centre at
CN’s Calgary Logistics Park provides
us with a direct connection to CN’s rail
network and transportation services,
allowing us to deliver our major appli-
ances for our retail partners more effi-
ciently and reliably.”
SASKATCHEWAN Regina based developer
brings first Built Green
Canada community to
Saskatchewan Homes in Saskatchewan’s first Built
Green Canada community, The Au-
tumn Ridge Estates 42-lot subdivision




south of Regina, will be certified
through the organization.

In parallel with the release of these
lots, the Government of Saskatchewan
is scheduled to adopt 9.36 of the build-
ing code in the coming months. This
will be the first time the code ad-
dresses energy
efficiency in
Saskatchewan, which means all
builders will have energy efficient re-
quirements they must meet.

Built Green Canada says its pro-
grams are complementary to the in-
coming code as they include energy
efficiency, integrating Natural Re-
sources Canada’s EnerGuide label,
and then go beyond to include the
preservation of natural resources, re-
duction of pollution, ventilation and air
quality, and the improvement of home
durability. “The convergence of this develop-
ment with the incoming 9.36 is fortu-
itous and shows the leadership
coming from within the industry
putting builders ahead of regulation,”
says Jenifer Christenson, chief execu-
tive officer of Built Green Canada. “The
growth of our programs, in large part,
is due to progressive builders who
continue to pursue better building
technologies and innovations.”
Todd Bodnar of Dakine Home
Builders, and the developer behind Au-
tumn Ridge Estates, was the first
builder in the province to certify their
builds through a third-party program
that includes energy, as well as mate-
rials and methods, indoor air quality,
ventilation, waste management, water
conservation, and business practices.

“We believe that environmental
leadership encompasses careful col-
laboration with all our suppliers and
subtrades to ensure each home we
build has a low environmental impact.

From beginning to end, we look for
ways to reduce construction waste
and increase a home’s efficiency to re-
duce our carbon footprint,” says Bod-
nar. “We’re proud to be expanding on
this by developing a community of
homes certified through Built Green
Canada.” MANITOBA
Canada Green Building
Council announces 100th
Manitoba LEED certification
The Canada Green Building Council
(CaGBC) and the CaGBC Manitoba
Chapter say that Manitoba has
achieved its 100th LEED certified pro-
ject. Totalling 601,753 sq. m. of space,
these 100 LEED certifications repre-
sent Manitoba’s greenest and most
sustainable buildings, with 72 certifica-
tions in Winnipeg, six in Brandon, and
the remaining 22 projects spread
across the province, CaGBC says in a
news release.

The 100th project is Stantec’s new
Winnipeg office at 311 Portage St.,
which earned LEED Gold for Commer-
cial Interiors certification on June 27.

This 55,000 sq. ft. office space amalga-
mates the company’s many office lo-
cations into one central spot in the city,
and incorporated various green design
measures in order to achieve a con-
struction waste diversion of 91.33 per
cent, a 36.7 per cent reduction in in-
stalled lighting power density over
ASHRAE 90.1-2004, and reduction of
61.43 per cent over baseline for water
fixture performance.

“This excellent outcome in achiev-
ing LEED Gold certification in the Com-
mercial Interiors rating system is the
result of strong collaboration within our
architecture, interior design, and engi-
neering buildings team,” says Eric
Wiens, Stantec vice-president and re-
gional leader, Manitoba. “I can’t think of
a better way to serve as a role model
for our clients than to achieve this cer-
tification from the CaGBC and to
demonstrate our own high perfor-
mance design capacity right within our
Stantec office in downtown Winnipeg.”
Manitoba’s 100 LEED certified pro-
jects include 16 LEED Certified, 41
LEED Silver, 34 LEED Gold, and nine
LEED Platinum. Rating system types
are broken down as 72 new construc-
tion or core and shell projects, six com-
mercial interiors projects, five existing
building certifications, and 17 homes
projects, with a total of 50 residential
units. In addition to certifications, there
are an additional 121 projects regis-
tered with the intention to certify,
which total more than 800,000 sq. m.

of space.

11-year-old sets fire through
emergency room under
construction at Winnipeg’s
Grace Hospital
An 11-year-old boy is accused of
setting a fire that tore through the roof
of a new emergency room still under
construction at Winnipeg’s Grace Hos-
pital, CBC has reported.

Crews were called to the construc-
tion site on the hospital’s north side
around 10:50 p.m. on July 2.

Fire officials said the water supply
was restricted because one fire hy-
drant wasn’t working. However, they
contained the flames mostly to the
roof. The boy was arrested in connection
with the fire but he is under 12 and
therefore too young to face charges
under Canadian law, police said.

Canada Post paid Winnipeg
mail processing plant
builders six years after
construction completed:
CBC report
Canada Post continued to pay
builders of the Winnipeg mail process-
ing plant six years after the facility was
complete, and more than a year after
RCMP first learned of possible fraud in
the construction project, Canadian
Broadcasting Corp. (CBC) News has
reported. The details are found in a Feb. 2,
2017 sworn affidavit RCMP used to
force TD Bank to provide records re-
lated to the joint venture between
Caspian Projects Inc. and AECON, the
two companies hired by Canada Post
to build the Winnipeg mail processing
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