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14200 Green Timbers Way Surrey, B.C. OWNER/DEVELOPER Green Timbers GP Limited (consortium) SERVICE PROVIDER ETDE Facility Management Canada (a member of the Bouygues Group) PRINCIPAL ARCHITECT Kasian Architecture Interior Design��and Planning Ltd. Specialist Consulting Architects: AECOM Roth Sheppard Architects CONSTRUCTION PARTNERS (in joint venture) Bouygues Building Canada Inc. Bird Design Build Construction Inc. STRUCTURAL CONSULTANT Glotman Simpson Consulting Engineers MECHANICAL CONSULTANT Cobalt Engineering ELECTRICAL CONSULTANT Stantec Inc. KITCHEN CONSULTANT R. Vornbrock & Associates Ltd. LANDSCAPE CONSULTANT PD Group Landscape Architecture Ltd. TOTAL AREA 819,500 square feet TOTAL PROJECT COST $966 million image: Kasian Architecture Interior Design / courtesy the government of canada LOCATION Inc., and the mechanical consultant, Cobalt Engineering, worked especially closely to maximize their efforts in energy efficiency. ���It will be a 24/7 operation, so we had to concerned about a high level of reliability and redundancy,��� says Dean Kaardal, vice president, buildings engineering with Stantec, which installed numerous daylight and occupancy sensors. Stuart Hood, mechanical engineer and partner at Cobalt, estimates that there are some 130 electrical meters throughout the site. ���People put green features in buildings, but if they���re not operated right, they don���t get the desired savings,��� says Hood. ���The consortium is tied into a contract guaranteeing the amount of energy used, so we need to measure and verify it. We have sub-metered to the point where we can tell how much energy is being used by the lights, the computers and every piece of mechanical equipment.��� Stewart Borrett, deputy project director at Bird Design Build Construction Inc., says that the project will apply for LEED Gold certification ���with a comfortable margin,��� but it wasn���t easy to do so. ���You have a high-security building with cameras and lighting that you���re trying to blend into a forest, which makes some of the credits hard to attain. But the use of waste energy recapture, chilled beams, efficient lighting control and good envelope design all contribute to our ability to keep energy use in line.��� The project was fast-tracked, with design and construction proceeding in tandem, creating nearly 1,000 direct and indirect jobs; at times, there would have been 700 people working on the site. ���This building should set a record,��� says Scott Douglas, project director and the leader of the commercial market sector at Kasian Architecture. ���We were in design meetings and taking calls from the site asking what���s next.��� Adds his colleague Michael McDonald, ���The great thing is, when you walk from the curb up to the building, past the row of mature trees, it feels as if it has always been there.��� ��� PD Group Landscape Wesbridge Steelworks 50/��� ��� February 2013 p46-51RCMP.indd 50 RCMP E Division Headquarters 13-01-22 3:24 PM