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AUGUST 2018 | 73 City Centre 2 building permit stage. It will boast a huge inverted triangular face embed- ded into one side of the building. As was the case with City Centre 1, City Centre 2's facade is tinted glass and specially treated composite alumi- num panels that turn different shades of orange depending on the arc of the sun. "However, we used clearer glazing for the upper half of the tower along with lighter-colour panels to coincide with our design for the third building," says Banich, adding that the subtle design similarities shared by these three build- ings will likely not be replicated for the remaining five facilities: "buildings four and five will probably be towers, but they'll have their own identities." One major exterior feature that dis- tinguishes City Centre 2 from its sister is a two-storey volume on the south side where many uses such as park- ing and pedestrian entrances, garbage collection, and fire/ambulance access and tenant storefronts converge. "This tall volume would create a pedestrian scale as well as allow lots of natural light into the tenant and entrance areas surrounding it," says Smith. The architects approached the inte- rior design the same way they did the exterior: by using mainly a similar material palette as in the first building, but in different ways. "For City Centre 2 we specified similar finishes and modi- fied the way they were installed," says Smith. "The colours used were cooler and crisper than in the first building, with bold red accents in the carpeting." Graydon Halley, project manager for Lark Projects, says of the construc- tion process, "As anyone in Vancouver will attest, the winter of 2016 and early 2017 was challenging, with mul- tiple snowfalls extending into March. It caused us to delay several concrete pours and incur additional costs to deal with the abnormal winter condi- tions and snow removal." Apart from weather, the main chal- lenge was accommodating several on-the-fly design changes requested by building tenants who commit- ted to purchasing office space during construction of the base building. "Safe Software [CC2's anchor tenant] requested one elevator to go up to its private rooftop patio, so Bogdonov Pao Associates Ltd. had to alter the structural design," says Halley. "Safe Software also wanted a gym for its employees, so we had to redesign the structural capacity of one of the slabs only days before our planned concrete pour. The numerous design revisions throughout the project required excep- tional communication between the development, design, and construc- tion teams. Fortunately, the majority of this project team had worked together on City Centre 1, so the outcome was hugely successful." Helping City Centre 2 achieve LEED Gold designation was Williams Engineering Canada Inc.'s use of heat recovery that goes to a common roof- top heat pump, which reclaims heat and puts it back into a hydronic loop – a unit where air is sent to, or taken from, for ventilation. Rainwater har- vesting via stormwater detention tanks would provide water to base building toilets and irrigation to the green roofs. While all parties concerned are sat- isfied with City Centre 2, the key focus remains the Health and Technology District as a whole, and as such, when Lark Group president Larry Fisher spoke at the second building's opening ceremony, he indicated that construc- tion would be underway on City Centre 3 as early as the fall of 2018. He explained the motivation behind this ambitious undertaking by stating simply: "We're trying to attract research, science, and technology to impact health innovations around the world." A LOCATION 9639 137A Avenue, Surrey, B.C. OWNER/DEVELOPER Lark Enterprises Ltd. ARCHITECT Wensley Architecture Ltd. GENERAL CONTRACTOR Lark Projects Ltd. STRUCTURAL CONSULTANT Bogdonov Pao Associates Ltd. MECHANICAL CONSULTANT Williams Engineering Canada Inc. ELECTRICAL CONSULTANT Colwin Electrical Group CIVIL CONSULTANT R.F. Binnie & Associates Ltd. LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT van der Zalm + associates inc. TOTAL SIZE 185,000 square feet TOTAL COST $60 million Colwin Electrical Group: Providing Energy for Life Colwin would like to congratulate the entire Design/Build Team on the completion of City Centre 2! 2829 Murray Street, Port Moody, BC V3H 1X3 | email@colwin.net | T: 604-461-2181 Colwin.indd 1 2018-07-04 11:20 AM Custom Electric.indd 1 2018-07-20 12:53

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