Category: featured

Snuneymuxw Community School

Completion: Owner: Snuneymuxw First Nation Snuneymuxw First Nation, Nanaimo BC This new elementary school for the Snuneymuxw First Nation offers a contemporary educational environment that supports 21st Century educational principles, while cloaked in a building form that takes inspiration from the traditional architecture of the Coast Salish People. The new school contains classrooms, project rooms… Read more »

Lord Nelson Elementary School

Completion: Owner: Vancouver Board of Education Vancouver, BC [location] This new elementary school for a population of 450 students is a two-storey facility, with a rooftop childcare centre owned by the City of Vancouver. To facilitate the continued operation of the existing school building (which occupied the centre of the site prior to its demolition)… Read more »

Creekside Paddling Centre

Completion: Owner: City of Vancouver Award Winning Vancouver, BC [location] Located in near the urban core of Vancouver, this floating facility serves the huge demand for public padding programs in False Creek by providing instruction, boats and equipment for public use, and hosting paddling competitions – including North America’s largest Dragon Boat Festival. The concept… Read more »

UBC Bioenergy Demonstration and Research Facility

Completion: Owner: University of British Columbia LEED Gold Award Winning Vancouver, BC [location] In support of UBC’s Sustainability Initiative (USI), the Bioenergy Research and Demonstration Facility (BRDF) was developed as a demonstration facility, intended to showcase not only energy co-generation by gasification, but also cross laminated timber construction (CLT), as part of the USI’s “campus… Read more »

UBC-O Fitness & Wellness Centre

Completion: Owner: University of British Columbia LEED Gold Kelowna, BC [location] This addition to the existing gymnasium complex at UBC’s Okanagan Campus is an athletic training facility that pushes the structural boundaries and aesthetic potential of mass timber construction. The project is the result of a design-build competition aimed at demonstrating innovative wood construction technology,… Read more »

WSANEC Middle School

Completion: Owner: WSANEC School Board South Saanich Indian Reserve, Brentwood Bay Serving the students from the four Coast Salish Indian bands forming the WSANEC School Board, this new junior-high school is located on the South Saanich Indian Reserve, 25 km north of Victoria on Vancouver Island. The new building is sited at the entry of… Read more »

École Au-coeur-de-l’ile

Completion: Owner: Conseil Scolaire Francophone (SD#93) LEED Gold Comox, BC [location] École Au-coeur-de-l’ile is a state-of-the-art community school for the francophone population of the Comox-Courtenay area. Built for a population of 380 students, the new building is developed to function as a cutting edge learning environment by day, and as a community hub by night…. Read more »

Environmental Learning Centre

Environmental Learning Centre Completion: Owner: North Vancouver School District LEED Platinum Award Winning Brackendale, BC [location] Set in a lush river valley in the Coast Mountains of British Columbia, Cheakamus Centre (formerly known as the North Vancouver Outdoor School) offers outdoor environmental and indigenous learning programs in a rich rainforest environment that includes significant stands of old growth… Read more »

Trades Training Centre

Completion: 2018Owner: Northern Lights College LEED Gold Award Winning Dawson Creek, BC [location] The Trades Training Centre is a new 5,600 m2 facility located in the far north. The building provides workshops for the instruction of carpentry, welding, plumbing, millwright, and wind turbine technology, as well as student commons, classrooms, and offices. This project seeks… Read more »