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OCTOBER 2015 | 79 PHOTOGRAPHY COURTESY PARKLAND COLLEGE with a dropoff turnaround was cre- ated at the centre of the facility, and an extended canopy not only offset the large scale of the shop but augmented a naturally lit rotunda and atrium. "These elements went a long way in giving the facility a human scale," says Dietrich. The design also provided for infloor heating and cooling throughout the facilit y. "Normally, air conditioning drives costs through the roof for a build- ing of this size," says Dietrich, adding that value engineering was undertaken at every opportunity to make the TTC a cost-effective proposal for Parkland. "Also, we designed the south wing with its main corridor to accommodate an entirely new wing, if and when the need arises in the future." Because the site most recently had been used as a snow and construction dump and at one time had accommo- dated a tannery, extensive cleanup was undertaken in April of 2014. "We bulldozed up to 60 yards of con- crete chunks," says Ryan McMorris, project manager for Logan Stevens Construction. "After that, we had to construct a 100-ton bridge in order to access the area over a storm drainage channel. And after that, in July, came four inches of rain and flooding, which required us to spend a week pumping out our excavated site." Despite these setbacks and chronic labour shortages throughout Saskatch- ewan, construction of TTC proceeded smoothly, including the installation of the huge airplane hanger door and a sectional overhead door in the shop. "At peak we had about 50 people on the site," says McMorris. As the completed TTC is being prepped for its first wave of students in September, Dietrich says of the project: "The final result is beautiful and func- tional, and we benefitted enormously from Parkland's clear vision of what it requires for its students." To which McMorris adds: "The build- ing comes along just at the right time: it's somewhat ironic that it will help elimi- nate skilled labour shortages, which was one of the challenges we had to overcome when we got the contract to build the facility." A Trades and Technology Centre (TTC) – Parkland College aviation architecture FROM TO