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January 17 Mid-Rise Design Workshop Surrey, BC www.wood-works.ca/bc City of North Civic Centre Renovation Photo Credit: Martin Tessler February 15 Ottawa Wood Conference Ottawa, ON Wood Architecture www.wood-works.ca/ontario February 21 Transcends Buildings Mid-Rise Costing Workshop , one of Canada’s legendary, celebrated architects and Founding Principal Hamilton, ON of Bing Thom Architects, sadly passed away in October. Throughout his designs, Bing www.wood-works.ca/ontario stayed true to his conviction of building beyond physical structures; knowing that February 22 architecture did not end once buildings were completed, but instead that it transcended Mid-Rise Costing Workshop to the communities and people in which they served. Woodbridge, ON The theme for this magazine insert is municipal buildings. Similar to the foundation www.wood-works.ca/ontario of Bing Thom’s practice, these structures serve as gathering places and are uniquely Feb. 28-Mar. 1 designed to reflect the needs of their various communities. Using wood throughout these Wood Design and Construction projects is an opportunity to showcase Canada’s rich heritage with nature as well as Solutions Conference ensure that the buildings of today are sustainable for tomorrow. Vancouver, BC The Wood WORKS! program in Canada is dedicated to educating the design and build www.woodweekbc.com community about the possibilities and benefits of building with wood. Wood is the only www.wood-works.ca/bc renewable building material, is sustainably harvested from locally managed forests March 6 and aesthetically magnificent. As the wood industry gains momentum in larger building 2017 Wood Design Awards in BC markets, mid-rise and tall, education will continue to be the grassroots of our efforts Vancouver, BC through advancements in wood science and research, events such as our Wood Solutions www.woodweekbc.com Fairs, and in fighting myths and misinformation with facts. www.wood-works.ca/bc Dale Carnegie once said, “Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.” With March 28 the understanding that buildings of today must exist to benefit our tomorrow from an Tall Wood Symposium environmental, social and durability perspective – wood and wood products continue Woodbridge, ON to be a construction option that can help the design community meet or exceed these www.wood-works.ca/ontario expectations. The Canadian Wood WORKS! program exists to educate people about the possibilities of building with wood. Check out some of the project examples in this insert March 29-30 that were influenced by our program, resulting in beautiful wood buildings that will be Fire Performance and enjoyed by many for years to come. Alternative Solutions for Wood Structures Workshop To learn more about the Canadian Wood WORKS! program or to register for an event, Surrey, BC please visit: wood-works.ca. www.wood-works.ca/bc

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Courtenay City Hall Renovation

Courtenay, BC

Wood played a starring role in the the Courtenay Library and the Comox of wood also helped the project meet Courtenay City Hall renovation. With a Valley Art Gallery which both have wood environmental considerations, as it is a mandate to use local products as much as strongly incorporated into their designs. renewable and sustainable material. The possible, Western red cedar and Douglas It was noted that as a local government, city of Courtenay hopes this project sets an fir were natural choices. Historically, remaining fiscally responsible is a example for the development community these were harvested and milled in the necessity. Wood is a cost-effective finish on how wood can be incorporated as Comox Valley, and they remain a favorite for public buildings, and with proper both a structural and a design element, option for local building materials. Wood maintenance, it will remain durable and hopefully guiding and influencing future was also chosen for its beauty and functional for years to come. The use local development. popularity with the public. The use of wood helped add a traditional element to the contemporary look of the building. Architect Structural Engineer General Contractor It visually connects City Hall to other Martin Hagarty Bates Engineering Muchalat Projects Ltd. public buildings downtown, including

Chetwynd Municipal Hall

Chetwynd, BC

The Chetwynd Municipal Hall is a The roof casing to support a massive two-story wood-frame structure with skylight and building identification cathedral ceilings supported by glulam signage are also constructed of wood. trusses. Wood was used extensively as Chetwynd has landscaped the building the primary structure of the building, with using several of the wood carvings 80 per cent of the 16,996-sq.ft. building from its inventory, which were selected being wood. Weight-bearing columns, through a community competition. which are also constructed of wood, The new municipal hall showcases the support massive glulam beams. The beauty and versatility of wood, along with exterior of the building is finished with log the community’s pride in its local wood features, Hardie plank and faux stone. industry.

Architect General Contractor Field Engineering & Southwest Design & Photo credit: District of ChetwynD Associates Ltd. Construction Ltd. 4 Wood WORKS! – Municipal Buildings

alberta The Victoria Park and Borden Park Pavilions are two of five projects awarded through an international architectural competition held by the city of in 2011. Each design had to respond to requirements user groups identified, such as public washrooms, change rooms, storage areas and warm-up space.

Photo credit: Stephan Pasche

VICTORIA PARK PAVILION

Edmonton, AB

Located in the North Saskatchewan River Valley, close to downtown, the pavilion is strategically positioned at the center of the city’s trail network. As such, it serves as an amenity building for local residents, as well as the many different groups who use the trails throughout the year. The park Photo credit: Raymond Chow includes a baseball diamond, cricket pitch, children’s play area and picnic facilities for summer use, and an outdoor skating rink BORDEN PARK PAVILION in the winter. Edmonton, AB The single-story building describes a gentle, elongated arc in plan, with large Located in the neighborhood of Virginia The circular service core is a load windows facing the park. The primary Park, northeast of the city center, Borden bearing wood frame structure whose structure comprises a series of Douglas Park has a rich history extending back center is offset from the center of the fir glulam post and beam frames. The more than a century. Established in 1906, exterior wall. secondary structure consists of fluted the park was home to Edmonton’s first zoo, The pavilion has a dual character: Douglas fir glulam panels. Two of the as well as many other attractions including transparent from the inside, where visitors frames extend beyond the facade, a swimming pool and a rollercoaster. feel strongly connected to the surrounding identifying an intermediate zone between Inspiration came from the historic park, and mirrored on the outside, where the pavilion and the park. The height of the bandstand and carousel structures that the multiple reflections dissolve the building was designed to accommodate once graced the park, and from the curving building into the landscape in an ever- large maintenance equipment such as a paths characteristic of English landscape changing kaleidoscope of seasonal color. Zamboni and a water truck, but when design of the Victorian era. Visible inside the building, the structural carried through the building, the additional The exterior wall of the pavilion is a load- wood members, sourced from certified height gives an unexpected sense of bearing wall comprising a series of glulam forests, are wire brushed and whitewashed, grandeur to the public spaces. columns arranged in a zigzag pattern giving this contemporary pavilion a texture around the perimeter of the building. The and patina that speak to the historic legacy Client resulting triangular-shaped wood frame is of Borden Park. City of Edmonton over clad with sealed, double-glazed units. Architect Although the columns lean at 10 degrees Client Rayleen Hill Architecture + Design Inc. from vertical, they bear on each other at the City of Edmonton Structural Engineer base and top. The connections are simple Architect Fast + Epp and discreet – concealed knife plates gh3 General Contractor secured with a single bolt. A concrete Structural Engineer EllisDon ring beam and faceted glulam eaves beam Chernenko Engineering Ltd stabilize the system. General Contractor Temple Contracting Wood WORKS! – Municipal Buildings 5

ONTARIO

Photo credits: Tom Arban Photography

Upper Thames River Conservation Authority – Watershed Conservation Centre

London, ON

Constructed on a mitigated brownfield site connection to the environment. the underground wet lab and flood control nestled within an urban conservation area, Materials were carefully chosen; several rooms, have corridor-facing glazing that the Upper Thames River Conservation considerations influenced their selection provides transparency from inside the Authority’s new Watershed Conservation including local availability, sustainable building to the outside environment. This Centre is a 40,903-sq.ft. multi-purpose manufacture, and low or no VOC. Wood is design parameter to have the building building that preserves the existing predominant, not only in the roof structure, “turn out” to the environment has proved environment and respects regulated but also throughout the building in the very successful and truly connects the requirements of flood plains, heritage form of finishes that enhance and contrast building’s interior spaces. The result zones and other environmentally sensitive with the other natural materials that is a beautiful building that is intimately areas. were used. The design invites guests to connected with the environment it was The design of this LEED Platinum explore the building as an extension of the built to help protect. building responds to Fanshawe Park Lake natural environment. The corridors are to the north, which is defined as the “entry like pathways that reinforce a connection point” for an urban river and flood control to the surrounding environment and the system that is part of a larger regional extensive network of hiking and biking environmental corridor. Consistent with trails. the philosophy and mandate of the client, Within the building, there are permanent considerable effort was made to achieve office and administrative areas, but there a sustainable building that was responsive are also more flexible spaces that have to all environmental considerations. been dedicated to education, nature The curved, strategically glazed building interpretation and community use. The is surrounded by the panoramic views architecture has a simple honesty that of the watershed area and is oriented expresses the use of and connection to reap the benefits of daylighting and between material types which are left natural ventilation. The design of the exposed to encourage investigation of the centre encourages social interaction design and construction techniques. and establishes strong connections Although the building is designed to between interior and exterior spaces. achieve the rigorous standards of a post- A contemporary design and the use of disaster facility, all interior spaces, even natural materials, including concrete, stone, glass, and engineered wood Architect Structural Engineer General Contractor products, further enhances the building’s Randy Wilson Architect Inc. Hastings & Aziz Ltd Graceview Enterprises 6 Wood WORKS! – Municipal Buildings

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Photo CreditS: Stephane Groleau

Saint-Éphrem Multipurpose Center

Saint-Éphrem-de-Beauce, QC

Located in the heart of the community Initially, the municipality advocated of Saint-Éphrem, the multipurpose center for a building built entirely of glulam catches the eye thanks to its fully glassed- components, both for glulam’s aesthetic in entrance hall which reveals a beautiful qualities and in order to contribute to wooden structure. The glulam structure the largely forestry-based local economy. of the hall and adjoining vestibule, as However, the estimated cost of this design well as the red cedar roof, capture the was beyond the initial budget, so much attention of passersby from the street. The so that the municipality finally decided balance of the building is also constructed to concentrate the glulam elements in of wood but with a more conventional light the front section of the building, namely frame structure. This marriage of building in the entrance hall and vestibule, and to systems allowed the municipality to bring use a traditional light wood frame for the to life a project that combines both beauty remainder of the structure. The decision and efficiency, at a low cost. to pair these two wooden structural Acting as both City Hall and cultural, systems allowed the town to respect the community and commercial complex, limits of its budget while also retaining the savings, and, according to the project’s the two-floor, 27,986-sq.ft. Saint-Éphrem warm character of a heavy timber frame engineer, proved even less expensive than multipurpose center is divided into several – a design that had originally charmed a steel structure. volumes of varying heights. It houses the the town's representatives. Although the Moreover, the engineer reveals that Town Council chamber and the municipal glulam portion represents less than 10 the pairing of these two wood structural offices, the municipal library, a pharmacy, per cent of the building’s area, its location systems was easily accomplished and a few non-profit organizations, as well as at the front focal point of the building that some on-site adjustments that were a large multipurpose room, which can be lends the center a distinct cachet, while required were more easily carried out divided into two separate sections and can the use of light wood framing for the rest with the wooden components than they accommodate up to 600 people. of the building translated into significant would have been with metal components.

Structural Timber Suppliers Client Architect Engineer General Freneco ltée, Nordic Structures, Municipality of Les architectes Odette Roy Génivar (now WSP Contractor Goodfellow, Poutrelles modernes Saint-Éphrem-de-Beauce and Isabelle Jacques Canada Inc.) Scierie Bernard and Portes Baillargeon Wood WORKS! – Municipal Buildings 7

ATLANTIC

Photo CreditS: Archibald & fraser architects

St. Mary’s Administration Centre

Sherbrooke, NS

The Municipality of the District of St. The design and the construction of Mary’s, which was incorporated in 1879, the center was very much a regional serves a small, mostly rural population on project. Local materials and labor Nova Scotia’s eastern shore. In 2011, the were utilized as much as possible. Council decided to replace its small and The building is a wood framed one- inadequate administration center. The story, fully barrier-free accessible, vision was to construct a new facility with a small mechanical loft in the which would be affordable to operate roof space. The 2 x 6 wood framing long-term as well as environmentally and pre-engineered wood truss roof responsible, healthy and comfortable. allowed for cost-effective design The new 5,600-sq.ft. center, which and facilitated familiar methods of overlooks the historical St. Mary’s River, construction in rural Nova Scotia. The opened in 2013 and achieved Four Green exterior clapboard siding and asphalt Globes Certification (equivalent to LEED shingle roof emulate the building Gold). The wood frame design contributed stock of the rural constituency the to this certification. center serves. “The Municipality of the District of St The features of the center which Mary’s is very proud of our new Green contribute to its sustainability and Globes-certified administration building,” efficiency are: says David Clark, Warden, Municipality - ground source heat exchanger of the District of St. Mary’s. “The funding - highly insulated envelope for this building was a result of the hard - triple glazed windows work and co-operation of the Federation - local materials of Canadian Municipalities and both our - daylight and occupancy sensors federal and provincial governments. - LED lights Allowing us to access the Gas Tax Funds was - passive ventilation features critical for St. Mary’s Municipality to move - water conservation features forward with this project by providing 100 - local and natural vegetation per cent of the capital funding. As well as used in landscaping providing administration offices and Council Chambers, the building is designed to serve Architect: Structural Engineer the community. General Contractor Archibald & SNC Lavalin (formerly CJ – Infrastructure Canada’s website Tate Construction Ltd. Fraser Architects MacLellan & Associates) 8 Wood WORKS! – Municipal Buildings

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