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BUILDING PROJECTS
SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY SUSTAINABLE ENERGY ENGINEERING BUILDING BRITISH COLUMBIA
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A new Canadian engineering faculty building will research and develop solutions for clean power innovation, as part of the Government’s response to climate change. ADF’s Sébastien Reed speaks to its architect Venelin Kokalov about a project that uses glazing to engage with its surroundings
Post-Secondary Institutions Strategic Investment Fund (SIF).
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 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
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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
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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 work for the city centre, a library and an aquatic centre, all of which make Revery particularly attuned to Surrey’s unique dynamic, and planning landscape. “We’ve developed a strong understanding of and relationship with the approving authorities,” says Kokalov. Another reason; the practice’s alignment with the ethos of the project. Seeing eye-to- eye with the client in the “quest for innovation,” they wanted to create a “community building” which would
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