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McMaster Engineering Research & Education | ? | 5 fl | Completed
Rendering....
http://ppims.mcmaster.ca/constructio...ngineering.jpg Cost: $ 38,000,000 Architect: Vermeulin Hind Architects Contractor: Bird Construction (Construction Mgr) Timeline: June 2007 through June 2009 Project description: Supporting the Faculty of Engineering’s expansion into emerging areas of research and study, is the construction of a state-of-the-art engineering building. The five-storey, 125,600 square-foot facility will provide much needed space for three recently launched graduate schools in Biomedical Engineering, Engineering Practice, and Computational Engineering and Science. Space is also designated for new research initiatives in mechatronics, energy studies, and micro- and nano-systems. Teaching studios, tutorial rooms, study space, and classrooms will support recent initiatives enhancing the first-year undergraduate experience. The building is designed to a high LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) environmental standards and as a teaching tool. It is located near the campus’ Main Street entrance and scheduled to be completed during summer of 2009. Construction is well underway and the first floor structure will be completed in early November. |
that first rendering still throws me off with the taller tower in the background.
misprint or a future building?? |
I forgot to show you the webcam for this building well under construction....
http://www.eng.mcmaster.ca/newbuildi...ewbuilding.jpg Hit the refresh button to get an update |
cool...3 floors down, 2 to go.
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Alumnus Gives Back To McMaster Engineering
Feb, 14 2008 - 3:30 PM HAMILTON (AM900 CHML) - McMaster University is celebrating a two million dollar gift. The money, donated by 1962 graduate Walter Booth, will be pumped into the construction of the university's new engineering building Booth is the chairman of Timberland, a Woodstock-based company and world-leader in the supply of utility equipment and machinery for the hydro, telecommunications, marine and mining sectors. He says the gift is his way of saving thanks to those who gave him a chance when he needed it. |
Looks like they are just finishing off the top floor
What kind of landscaping is planned around the building, the rendering just looks like plain grass. Will they add trees and shrubs or is that how it will stay? :cheers: BTW, kind of off topic but I saw McMaster on daily planet the other day, they were broadcasting something to do with the engineering fair held there. tobad Mac didnt win |
New engineering building topped off
by Faculty of Engineering April 10, 2008 A topping off ceremony was held today to celebrate the structural completion of the new engineering building now under construction at McMaster University. Construction and trades people were joined by representatives from Bird Construction, McMaster's Facility Services, Vermeulen/Hind Architects, the Faculty of Engineering and University officials to celebrate the traditional construction milestone. Some 55 construction and trades people have been involved in the concrete forming, mechanical and electrical portion of the project to date. A finishing crew of more than 100 will start moving in to begin work on the exterior and interior of the building. Completion of the building is expected in late Spring 2009. The five-storey, 125,000-square-foot (11,670-square-metre) facility will provide much needed space for both teaching and research. It is located near the campus's Main Street entrance. Moving into the new building will be the School of Biomedical Engineering, the Walter G. Booth School of Engineering Practice, research centres, Engineering 1 (the Faculty's first-year engineering program) and the McMaster-Mohawk Bachelor of Technology Partnership. Teaching studios, tutorial rooms, study space and classrooms will support recent initiatives enhancing the first-year undergraduate experience. The building is registered with LEED Canada for environmental certification. Design of the building also allows it to be used as a teaching tool related to engineering, construction and sustainability issues. |
First glass panel went up today. Looks awesome. The rendering shows a greyish colour, but it looks like the final product will be light green.
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Yea, it's green and light green. I'll try and get a picture tomorrow.
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was there ever any discussion about locating this building at MIP? perhaps it's better served on the main campus. i dunno.
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I think this building was planned before MIP got going. I remember being puzzled about the design when they redid Main St and the entrance to the hospital. Now I know the design made allowances for this building.
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Yea this building has been in the works for at least 10 years. They always wanted a building at that corner. Suppose to have a cafe at the base with a large patio facing Main and the entrance.
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I think this bldg will serve eng undergrads so it needs to be on the main campus.
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Future face of McMaster
Engineering building at forefront of technology, design, construction January 06, 2009 Wade Hemsworth The Hamilton Spectator http://www.thespec.com/News/Local/article/491317 The toilets will flush with rain- water. The lighting, heating and ventilation systems will know how many people are in a room and adjust themselves accordingly, making sure they use just enough energy. Students will attend lectures in a unique hall where professors will speak from the centre of a concrete oval that rises like a leaning tube through one side of the building. This is the $48-million Engineering Technology Building now nearing completion beside the medical centre at the Main Street entrance to the McMaster University campus. The five-storey building -- seven years in the making from concept to completion -- is to be ready for use in September. A curtain of glass -- triple-glazed and arranged in an asymmetrical pattern of clear, frosted and opaque panels -- covers what may look like a typical box-shaped building. Don't be fooled. On the inside, both the form and function of the building put it firmly on the leading edge of modern technology, design and construction. On the lower floors, students just starting their undergraduate engineering degrees will study alongside others working on bachelor of technology degrees in a new partnership with Mohawk College. The announcement of major provincial funding for that joint venture last year caused a mid-stream change in plans for the building. Among other shuffling, the change pushed the dean's office out of the top floor, where it would have enjoyed a grand view of the escarpment. In fact, the revision left the dean out of the building altogether. But David Wilkinson, who will stay in his current office in the original John Hodgins Engineering Building, doesn't seem to mind, as long as his students, researchers and faculty members have a place to do their best work. "We're bursting at the seams and this will really allow us to do our job much more effectively," he said. "I'm too busy to look outside most days anyway, so it doesn't really matter." On the upper floors, graduate students and faculty members will conduct sophisticated research in biomedical engineering, microtechnology and nanotechnology in ultra-modern laboratories. Others will research the best ways to marry engineering with entrepreneurship, design and public policy, working in a centralized hub for engineering practice. In the middle is a question mark. Much of the third floor has yet to be designated for a specific use, as the university waits for word on funding applications before the Canada Foundation for Innovation, expected to come in the late spring. The people who work and study in the building will meet and relax in two-storey gardens facing Main Street, and in common spaces on the first floor, where a "living wall" of artifacts will recall 50 years of the faculty's history and where a clock designed by undergraduate students of today will keep the time. Recently, there have been 100 tradespeople on site, working late and sometimes on weekends to get the job done. That number will rise to about 150 and taper off during the final stages of the project. The person in charge of the site is Ben Chae, himself a civil engineer who did his graduate studies at McMaster 25 years ago, just steps away in the Hodgins Engineering Building. That 1959 building will remain the heart of the rapidly growing faculty, as the opening of the new building relieves cramped conditions resulting from the faculty's growth to 4,000 students today from 2,500 in 2001. Now a senior project superintendent with Bird Construction Company, Chae is happy to be back on campus. "To come back to my own school and have the chance to contribute something, to use my learning to do something there, I was quite delighted," he said. "I would never have imagined it." Quick, intense and enthusiastic, Chae appears to be operating on multiple levels at once as he moves through the partially completed building. He calls out instructions to tradespeople and stoops to pick up a small piece of stray material, without losing the thread of his description of the project's greatest technical challenge: building the hollow column that holds the elliptical classroom, designed to lean outward from the western edge of the building at eight degrees from the vertical -- roughly twice the tilt of the Leaning Tower of Pisa. Making the lopsided concrete tube stand safely required a complex set of concrete forms and a custom mix that would be strong enough to support weight, yet appealing enough to go without further finishing. The building itself is a symbol of the university and its changing role in the community. Thrust forward on the building site, it is meant to show McMaster's most modern face to the city, where it is taking an increasing part in shaping the economy. For the architects at the Dundas firm of Vermeulen Hind, who specialize in cancer centres, health care and research facilities, the Engineering Technology Building is the first freestanding university building in their portfolio. They hope it will be a showpiece for the super-efficient buildings they see as the way of the near future. "Twenty years from now, you won't be able to build a building the way people have been to date. It simply won't be sustainable," said architect Doug Oliver, a member of the project team. "We think it's important to make a case for these buildings, to invest in something that has high-performance capabilities and see the savings down the road." The university, the builder and the architects are hoping to achieve gold level designation under the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design program. A significant portion of the concrete in the building, for example, was made with slag produced in Hamilton as a byproduct of steelmaking. That concrete takes a little longer to cure, but using it has saved 300 tonnes of carbon dioxide. Nearly all of the construction waste is being diverted from the waste stream. New wood used in the project has been sourced, where possible, from managed forests. The building itself is a learning tool, where such elements as the heating and ventilation systems and rain collection pipes are visible. "This is a building about the future," said architect Chris Harrison. "It's about the way things can be done to make a better performing product, and one that takes less of a toll on the Earth." |
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Edit: And the Marketplace building I believe it's called (where the parking lot outside MUSC and Mills currently is) would be an awesome building too. |
They took down the fence along the property and it looks like it's completed, in time for a new school year. I'll update this from U/C to Completed.
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The new engineering building will officially open on October 23rd.
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Mac's brainstorm building
Engineers have more elbow room for advancement October 24, 2009 Wade Hemsworth The Hamilton Spectator http://www.thespec.com/News/Local/article/659711 McMaster wanted to train and inspire engineers in a building that represents the highest principles and best practices of the profession. The university officially opened its new $48-million Engineering Technology Building yesterday with an impressive display of technological might and regard for the environment. "This has really been a dream and a vision for the faculty of engineering for many years," said dean David Wilkinson. "On several different fronts, it really allows us to make a tremendous stride -- one giant leap, to use an old phrase." The 125,000-square-foot building, beside the university medical centre on Main Street West, features lighting that automatically compensates for natural sunlight, and sophisticated heating and exhaust systems that make maximum use of ambient heat. Rainwater collected on the roof helps to flush the toilets and irrigate the landscaping. The building was made with concrete that includes recycled slag from steel manufacturing and wood from managed forests. Architects from Vermeulen Hind in Dundas designed the project to include an elliptical computer lab that leans out from the base of the rectangular building in a concrete tube. The new building is filled with classrooms and laboratories, but is itself a bit of both, with exposed structural elements and systems everywhere, and conspicuous decorative features that bridge the space between engineering and art. Even the opening ceremony itself was a feat of engineering, with a student-built robotic device slicing the ribbon with a surgical scalpel before the eyes of benefactors, graduates and university officials. About 150 guests gathered for the opening, 50 years to the day after the opening of the university's original engineering building, later named for John Hodgins, McMaster's first dean of engineering. The new building will be home to first-year engineering students, the McMaster-Mohawk bachelor of technology partnership, a nanotechnology research centre, and schools of biomedical engineering and engineering practice. The ETB, as it is known on campus, opened for use in September, and will be home to more than 2,000 students, faculty, staff and researchers when it is fully fitted out. More events are planned between noon and 4 p.m. today and are open to the public. |
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