18 SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY SUSTAINABLE ENERGY ENGINEERING BUILDING, BRITISH COLUMBIA
INNOVATION IN SUSTAINABILITY
The new Sustainability Energy Engineering school housed within the building will develop solutions for harvesting, storage, transmission and use of energy, carefully considering socio-economic impacts
every Architecture was first approached by Simon Fraser University (SFU), which has three campuses in British Columbia, Canada, to design its new Sustainable Energy Engineering Building in 2015. The architects were initially requested to work on the functional programme and indicative design for the new centre, whose eventual construction was contingent on grants from the Canadian Government under the Federal Department of Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada’s Post- Secondary Institutions Strategic Investment Fund (SIF).
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After receiving confirmation of funding in 2016, the client pressed on with interviews to find a suitable architectural lead to take the project from design through to construction. They did not have to look
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too far, as they selected Revery to continue the work they had already begun. According to the project’s original brief, the client envisioned “a five-storey, world- class, state-of-the-art, LEED Gold building designed to reduce emissions and energy consumption, situated on lands contiguous to the university’s Surrey campus. The gross floor area of the proposed building is 14,445 m2
, plus one level of underground
parking.” The building was to represent the university’s first expansion beyond the original campus, as well as being a vital new addition to downtown. Beyond having completed initial feasibility work for the new building, the architects list some other core reasons why they were awarded the project; the first being their significant design experience in the city of Surrey. This includes planning
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