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WestMount Corporate Campus – Building 4 by Laurie Jones COURTESY DIALOG ontinuing with the collection of modern of ice options in Calgary, Alberta is the WestMount Corporate Campus, a 26-acre development that will ultimately have 795,000 square feet of Class-A of ice space. Within the seven buildings and future multi-level parkade, is Building 4, offering 155,000 square feet for new tenants. "This complex is a campus-style of ice park with buildings that are smaller in scale than a downtown setting, where towers are clustered in a highly dense area," says Gerry Doering, architect and project manager for Dialog. "WestMount Corporate Campus has signi icant acreage, including approximately 35,000 square feet of professional and retail space." Located approximately 10 minutes from downtown Calgary, the WestMount Corporate Campus has easy driving access to most parts of the city, and is near rapid transit and bus routes. "Building 4 is under construction with an anticipated substantial completion date of September 2012," says Doering. The Class-A of ices will offer enhanced inishes on the exterior, the lobby and the washrooms. "While each building has individual design elements, there is a consistency of materials throughout," says Doering. "Building 4 incorporates a clean esthetic with curtain wall and composite metal panels delineating the entrance." Doering adds strong axes along the boulevards of the campus establish building placement and orientation. Building 4 has been designed to meet LEED Silver certi ication levels, which brings a number of eco-oriented considerations in design and construction. "One of the credits we are pursuing is natural daylighting," says Doering. "It can be a challenge with an anticipated closed-of ice scenario within a core and shell building project. With Building 4, the rule of thumb that we've tried to follow is approximately 40 feet from core to glass. This allows some great planning initiatives – you're never too far from the outside wall. Natural daylight is something we are always concerned with, so we try not to have too many spaces that are away from that source." Although it is a six-storey building, the design team created a compartmentalized system so each loor has its own mechanical unit. This creates more lexibility for the users on that loor to distribute and control their thermal comfort. "We have the main mechanical penthouse on the roof which C WestMount Corporate Campus – Building 4 p.94-95WestMount.indd 95 distributes down to each of the loors," says Doering. The WestMount Corporate Campus is on the Calgary Pathway System, making it ideal for people to bike or walk to work. "There will be showers and locker rooms on the main loor of Building 4, again part of LEED Silver requirements," says Doering. "This may be used by people who want to bike to work, or go for a run during the day. There is a lane for vehicles and a sidewalk to access the underground, where staff can ind secure, Class 1 parking stalls bikes." One tenant eagerly awaiting the inish of Building 4 is Stuart Olson Dominion Construction Limited, who is also the project's general contractor. "We currently have our corporate of ice in one building on the WestMount Campus and our Southern Alberta of ice in another," says Adam Irwin, project manager. "The intent is to bring everyone together. Our company is moving in to the top two loors, so there are a lot of eyes watching the progress because they know they will be there eventually. Our of ice space will take up 50,000 square feet." Keeping with the LEED Silver energy saving goal is the use of LED pedestrian-scale lights on the east sidewalk of the building. "We installed this lighting system to show that in the right application, LED is sustainable and cost effective," says Trevor Cleall, electrical engineer with Dialog. Another lighting consideration was in the outdoor parking area. "The energy standards are decreasing, so in order to light the parking lot, we had to go to a lower light level with a more ef icient technology. It is still safe for people who are in the area, but it is clear that the area uses less energy." Energy savings also comes within the stairwell areas of Building 4. "In the stairwells and exit corridors, we used a feature that allows half the lamps to be turned off with an occupancy sensor, and the other half will stay on at all times for egress lighting," says Cleall. "This is an easy, cost-effective way to save the lighting power in the exit stairs and corridors that are rarely used, but are critical for safety purposes." Occupancy sensing was also used in the parkade to save energy when not in use. The landscape is an extension of the design approach established during the master planning stage at the project conception. "It has been exciting to work on a project with a strong contemporary vision," says Jan Day, landscape architectural technologist with Carson-McCulloch. "Each building design is distinct, so we have created a personalized landscape for each by using linear, layered masses of single plant types to frame the buildings and accent the entries. Overall, it is a minimalist landscape design expression, with formal, tree-lined streets that enhance the campus feel." ■ LOCATION 4820 Richard Road SW Calgary, Alberta OWNER bcIMC Realty Corporation DEVELOPER GWL Realty Advisors Inc. OWNER'S REPRESENTATIVE Pivotal Project Management ARCHITECT Dialog CONSTRUCTION MANAGER Stuart Olson Dominion Construction Limited STRUCTURAL CONSULTANT Read Jones Christoffersen Ltd. MECHANICAL/ ELECTRICAL CONSULTANT Dialog LEED CONSULTANT Enermodal Engineering CIVIL CONSULTANT MMM Group BUILDING ENVELOPE CONSULTANT Building Science + Architecture Ltd. SOIL CONSULTANT McIntosh Lalani Engineering Ltd. LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT Carson-McCulloch Associates Ltd. TOTAL CONSTRUCTION COST $28.9 million TOTAL AREA – BUILDING 4 155,000 square feet APRIL 2012 /95 3/26/12 3:07:57 PM