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78 | FEBRUA RY 2017 Surrey Organic Biofuel Facility "This is quite something," says Murray. "The stack was manufactured in Ontario, shipped across the country on oversize trailers through the winter, delivered in January and then we had one of the biggest crawler cranes in Western Canada help lift it into place." Head on back round to the main entrance and you are faced with a floor- to-ceiling glass curtain wall on top of which sits glulam beams. At night this entrance lights up, making it extremely inviting to passersby. It is here where you find the reception area and stairs that take you up to offices and then up further to the third level which features a conference room, visitor gallery and a rooftop education garden. For the administration area Stantec created warmth with the glulam beams and a CLT roof, while over in the one- storey processing area the materials are more raw – all the concrete has been left untouched so that it can withstand the environment and provide high durability against the extreme humidity. Perhaps the most impressive aspects of this building, however, are the systems that actually make this building what it is. Just take the state- of-the-art odour mitigation system that features ventilation that operates under negative pressure and directs 100 percent of the treated and filtered air out of the stack located at the back of the facility – this ensures optimal natural dispersion. Then there's the anaerobic digester (AD) technology which starves the organic waste of oxygen; the natural decomposition process is expedited through the addition of microorganisms and from here the biogas that is naturally released from the decomposition process is captured and scrubbed, and the refined biomethane (RNG) is then used to power the vehicles. "The Surrey biofuel facility integrates the most advanced process and odour abatement technology in the world and we are excited to be part of a team in B.C.," says Cornelis Stelwagen, technical director at Waste Treatment Technologies (WTT). "Co-ordinating all of the technology in the building, a lot of which came from Europe, took careful choreography by Orgaworld and the team to ensure it would all fit together and be properly integrated into the building," says Murray. "This required project management on an international scale," agrees Lauzon. Today, as the building reaches its final stages of construction, the team are extremely happy and proud to have taken part in such a noteworthy project. "I'm very excited for Rob Costanzo at the City of Surrey and his whole team. Other cities will look at what Surrey has done and use it as a template. This project is definitely one of the nicest organic waste buildings I have seen built," says Lauzon. "How this building fits into a very progressive waste management process is extremely impressive. It's a project that forces us to rethink how we view waste and landfill," adds Bryson. A LOCATION 9752 192nd Street, Surrey, B.C. OWNER/DEVELOPER City of Surrey / Orgaworld Canada (DBFOM) ARCHITECT/STRUCTURAL/ MECHANICAL/ELECTRICAL/CIVIL/ LANDSCAPE CONSULTANT Stantec Consulting Ltd. GENERAL CONTRACTOR Orgaworld Canada Ltd. CONSTRUCTION MANAGER/ CIVIL CONSULTANT Smith Bros. & Wilson (BC) Ltd. PROCESS DESIGNER AND CONTRACTOR Waste Treatment Technologies (WTT) TOTAL SIZE 150,000 square feet TOTAL COST $68 million RENDERING COURTESY STANTEC Congratulations to the City of Surrey and Orgaworld Canada Ltd. for bringing this leading-edge, award winning, organic biofuel processing facility to the Lower Mainland. Smith Bros. &Wilson Is proud to be the Construction Manager Surrey Biofuel Facility Smith Bros. & Wilson (B.C.) Ltd. General Contractors | Construction Managers www.sbw.ca Smith Bros Wilson.indd 1 2017-01-16 12:31 PM TAG Construction.indd

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