SURREY, B.C. — A project at Simon Fraser University’s (SFU) Surrey campus has been awarded LEED Gold certification after it was completed last year.
The five-storey building, located adjacent to the Surrey campus main building, was designed by Revery Architecture and built by Bird Construction. It is home to SFU’s new School of Sustainable Energy Engineering (SEE), the first program of its kind in Western Canada.
The building was SFU’s first major expansion of the Surrey campus beyond its Surrey Central footprint to create an “integrated academic precinct” in the city’s evolving city centre downtown core, explains a release.
“The LEED designation demonstrates SFU’s commitment to being a leading post-secondary institution in sustainability research, learning, innovation, outreach and practice,” says Larry Waddell, SFU’s chief facilities officer, in the release. “The new Surrey building is an example of how we can use campus infrastructure and operations to be living environments in which interdisciplinary learning, applied research and practical work can advance sustainability and resiliency on campus and beyond.”
The facility includes teaching and research labs, study and lounge spaces, offices, an open atrium and a 400-seat lecture hall that is also used by the community.
Its award-winning façade is composed primarily of framed, high-performance, undulating precast concrete panels. Its design includes abstracted circuit board imagery, which SFU says symbolizes the technological subject matter being taught in the building.
In 2019 Bird Construction’s work on the project garnered their team an award from the Vancouver Regional Construction Association.
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