Construction Projects
Augustana Library and Forum
Centennial Centre for Interdisciplinary Science (CCIS)
Chemical and Materials Engineering Building Infill Structure
Chemical and Materials Engineering Building Upgrade
Chemistry Centre West/Biological Sciences Building Upgrades
East Campus Village Graduate Student Residence
Edmonton Clinic Health Academy
Li Ka Shing Centre for Health Research Innovation/
Katz Group Centre for Pharmacy and Health Research Fit Outs
Henry Marshall Tory Building
HUB Mall Upgrades/Skylight Replacement
Scientific Support
St. Albert and Kinsella Research Lands
Utility Expansion, Phases 2 and 3
Augustana Library and Forum
Location: Augustana Campus, Camrose
Architect: Kasian Architecture Interior Design and Planning Ltd.
Completed 2010
The Forum on the Augustana Campus is a 3,650 gross square metres, two-storey, plus basement, building located centrally on the campus quadrangle. Adjoining the recently completed Library and connected to the Convocation Centre on the main floor and to the Faith and Life Centre on all floors, the facility is the front door to the campus, a venue for the public and new students to be introduced to the faculty, and a meeting place for all students and staff. To create the desired type of social focus, several activities that involve students and faculty on a day-to-day basis have been grouped together physically with a relatively large group activity space suitable for informal interaction. The building is programmed to house a student commons, café and bookstore on the main floor and faculty and administration offices on the second floor. The basement will accommodate information technology offices and common areas, including a shelled area for future development.
Centennial Centre for Interdisciplinary Science (CCIS)
Location: North Campus
Architect: O’Neill O’Neill Procinsky Architects/Flad and Associates Inc.
Completed 2011
LEED: Silver (targeted)
A lasting legacy to commemorate the centennials of both the Province of Alberta (2005) and the University of Alberta (2008), the Centennial Centre for Interdisciplinary Science project is a 53,000 gross square metres building consisting of a two-storey basement structure and seven storeys above ground. It includes a total of 2,225 lecture theatre seats, teaching and research laboratories, and faculty and graduate student office space. Intended to consolidate key research initiatives from five separate sites on campus, and to facilitate research collaboration across traditional scientific disciplines within and beyond the Faculty of Science, this leading edge facility will increase access to advance education in science and allow the faculty to grow and maintain its place as one of Canada’s top science faculties. It is designed to accommodate increased undergraduate and graduate enrolment targets and growth in staff for the Faculty of Science.
The project re-establishes the original configuration of the University's main quad by restoring the area previously occupied by the V-Wing to open space, thus yielding a central campus quadrangle as it had been originally envisioned by Henry Marshall Tory, the first president of the University of Alberta. CCIS External Website
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Chemical and Materials Engineering Building - Infill Structure (CME)
Location: North Campus
Architect: Cohos Evamy
Scheduled Completion: First Quarter 2012
Companion to the condition and functional renewal of the Chemical and Materials Engineering Building is the Infill Structure which will adjoin the existing building and will be located between the north wall of the building and the south wall of Windsor Car Park. Intended to address the significant deficiencies associated with teaching and research functional space requirements of the Faculty of Engineering, the new integrated option of the Infill Structure will consist of 27,600 gross square metres of new development to address the faculty’s space needs to 2020. The facility will accommodate the faculty’s entire professional administrative and academic staff and a portion of the graduate students from all departments of the faculty. It will also house limited undergraduate seminar and support facilities for the Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering.
Chemical and Materials Engineering Building - Upgrade
Location: North Campus
Architect: Cohos Evamy
Completed 2010
A condition and functional renewal project, the work scope includes resolving building code deficiencies and improving the functional use of the existing space in this 40-year old building marked by significant deferred maintenance. Redevelopment of three typical laboratory floors on the fourth, fifth and sixth levels will occur as a floor by floor renovation/modernization program. Components of the existing mechanical and electrical systems will undergo modification to fully operate completed new building systems and laboratories on the three modernized floors. The existing mechanical and electrical systems will be maintained at an operational level until the entire building is renewed.
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Chemistry Centre West/Biological Sciences Building Upgrades
Location: North Campus
Prime Consultant: Hemisphere Engineering Inc.
Scheduled Completion: Second Quarter, 2011
The building systems modernization project in the Chemistry Centre West Building and the exhaust air system upgrade project in the Biological Sciences Building include the implementation of manifold systems with centralized exhaust fans on several of the building wings that would be capable of driving the exhaust stream high enough to minimize the impact on the Centennial Centre for Interdisciplinary Science. For the Chemistry Centre West Building, the work scope will also include laboratory renovations, building envelope upgrades, and an interior master plan. The work scope for the Biological Sciences Building will include a reverse osmosis water supply, heating upgrades, and laboratory upgrades. The addition of heat recovery will be included in the upgrades to these two buildings. The Chemistry Centre West Building will have an estimated 20 per cent increase in system capacity for a future planned expansion with low-flow fume hoods.
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Henry Marshall Tory Building
Location: North Campus
Architect: Hodgson Schilf Architects Inc.
Scheduled Completion: Third Quarter, 2011
Studies on the Henry Marshall Tory Building systems were undertaken to: 1) determine the extent of the base building systems upgrade required and define options for renewal that could be managed within the facility while maintaining it in a fully operational state, and 2) investigate the extent of the problem with the lifting floor tiles and the method of remediation required.
The implementation of the base building systems upgrade has been phased: the first phase includes materials abatement from floors four through 15 in the tower and subsequent architectural finishes; the second phase involves mechanical upgrades to both the tower and the base building. The plan is to renovate three floors during each academic term.
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HUB Mall Upgrades/Skylight Replacement
Location: North Campus
Architect: ACI Architecture
Completed 2011
HUB Mall was originally designed as a raised, interior street, with three floors of residence rooms overlooking small shops and a skylight above running the length of almost three city blocks. Renovations were undertaken in this 38-year old facility to address deferred maintenance issues including excess condensation and leakage problems which have plagued the structure especially in recent years. The work scope included the installation of a clerestory over the atrium along with reroofing of the remainder of the building. The new clerestory roof system has maintained the aesthetics and daylighting of the original architectural design.
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Scientific Support
Location: North Campus, Katz Group Centre for Pharmacy and Health Research
Architect: HRA2 Architects, a joint venture of ONPA and Hamilton Filipowicz Architects Ltd.
Scheduled Completion: Second Quarter, 2011
As part of the expansion of the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry and an overall integration plan for scientific support, this project will develop all of the fit-out space within the basement of the building, which is divided into four distinct areas: Glass Wash Facility, a core cleaning and sterilization facility; Imaging Core, a core facility that will include an isolation pad to house very sensitive microscopes for high end medical imaging; HSLAS Procedure and Holding Space, a facility to accommodate the expansion of medical research on campus; and Alberta Institute for Viral Immunology Suite, a secondary barrier holding and procedure facility independent of the HSLAS space.
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St. Albert and Kinsella Research Lands
Location: City of St. Albert and Town of Kinsella, Alberta
Scheduled Completion: 2012
Leased research space at the Ellerslie Research Station is being replaced with appropriate infrastructure for agricultural research at the St. Albert and Kinsella research stations to support ongoing research by the Faculty of Agricultural, Life and Environmental Sciences. Most of the infrastructure in Kinsella will be replaced with new and functionally improved facilities for operational efficiency. In the St. Albert property, a field station building will be constructed to serve as an extensive field site as well as classrooms to support research demonstrations and extension of this teaching facility. Essential rolling stock, both operational and research related, will be purchased for both lands.
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Utility Expansion, Phases 2 and 3
Location: North Campus
Prime Consultant: Capital Engineering and O’Neill O’Neill Procinsky Architects (for the new cooling plant)
Scheduled Completion: Second Quarter, 2011
The Utility Expansion Phases 2 and 3 project will provide a range of utilities to meet the increasing loads that will be imposed on the utility infrastructure by the growth of facilities in the greater campus area such as The Edmonton Clinic Health Academy, and the Centennial Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies. The project is divided into six different phases: extension of the deep sewer across 114 Street (now complete), chiller additions to the existing cooling plant (now complete), electrical infrastructure addition and expansion, a new cooling plant, mechanical infrastructure addition and expansion, and electrical infrastructure (distribution feeders).
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East Campus Village Graduate Student Residence
Location: North Campus
Architect: Hodgson Schilf Architects Inc.
Completed 2010
LEED®: Silver (targeted)
The construction of four new graduate student housing buildings has introduced 234 bed spaces, consisting of bachelor and two-bedroom units, to the institution’s student housing rental inventory. The buildings have a townhouse/hall style and have direct street access for the lower two levels and double loaded corridors for the upper two floors. Each building has an amenity/social space that includes a lounging area with TV/vending machines, exercise room, and laundry facilities. The complex features an outdoor patio space with barbecues and several exterior benches that will be used for special events and community socializing.
Edmonton Clinic Health Academy
Location: North Campus,
Architect: HOK Architects Corporation – Prime Architectural Consultant; Callison Architecture – Master Architect to coordinate designs between the University of Alberta (The Edmonton Clinic Health Academy) and Alberta Health Services (The Edmonton Clinic South)
Scheduled Completion: Fourth Quarter, 2011
LEED®: Silver (targeted)
When completed, the University of Alberta's Edmonton Clinic Health Academy will be 83,000 gross square metres in space and which houses faculties and groups such as the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, Nutrition, Pharmacy. The facility will provide an environment that allows health professionals, students, faculty, staff and researchers to share space, time, clients and information to the benefit of clinical care, health education and health research. In future, Edmonton Clinic Health Academy will be connected to Alberta Health Services' Edmonton Clinic South, which will be a clinical centre.This interdisciplinary and integrated “Made in Alberta” model of ambulatory care, teaching and research will facilitate the education of a new type of health professional by fostering a culture of interdisciplinary practice and supporting a collaborative team approach focused around the patient.
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Li Ka Shing Institute for Health Research Innovation/
Katz Group Centre for Pharmacy and Health Research Fit-Outs
Location: North Campus
Architect: HRA2 Architects, a joint venture of
Hamilton Filipowicz Architects Ltd. and O’Neill O‘Neill Procinsky Architects
Scheduled Completion: see individual projects below
This research intensive 67,500 gross square metres facility forms part of a complex set of interconnecting buildings in the University’s medical precinct. Developed on two separate sites and connecting directly to existing facilities on all levels, the Li Ka Shing Institute for Health Research and Innovation is located east of the Heritage Medical Research Centre on the corner of 112 Street and 87 Avenue, and the Katz Group Centre for Pharmacy and Health Research is located on the corner of 114 Street and 87 Avenue. These facilities play a fundamental role in the University’s vision to provide a state-of-the-art working environment that fosters collaborative, leading edge research in health sciences.
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