Apr
25
CEI teamed with PricewaterhouseCoopers and Bird Construction to prepare a new Master Plan for the expansion of the Crystal Centre in Grande Prairie. The report was presented to Council on April 1st, and the City has already started to move forward on several of the recommendations.
Apr
22
The Edmonds Pool and Community Centre is just weeks away from opening in Burnaby, BC. Residents of the community can look forward to amenities including a six-lane, 25-metre pool, leisure pool with zero beach entry, warm swim/therapy lanes, lazy river with two channels, double waterslide, modesty change spaces, and a series of innovative accessibility features. A community centre also features a 12,000 square foot twin gymnasium, fitness centre, a community kitchen, and multi-use and art rooms.
Apr
19
GEC Architecture of Calgary has submitted the development permit application for Quarry Park Recreation Centre. CEI Architecture is serving as sport architecture specialists on the project. This centrally located community centre is situated near an old City dump and has had several unique design challenges resulting from the associated site conditions, including accommodating especially challenging soils and ecological site measures. The program and resulting concept design were vetted through a number of key user groups and are now being reviewed by the YMCA, who were recently selected to be the facility operator.
Apr
18
CEI Architecture was selected to exhibit our innovative 40-storey Wood Office Tower design in an international exhibition titled “The Architecture of Necessity” hosted by the Virserum Art Museum in Sweden. The project will also be published in a book of the exhibition.
Apr
16
An official groundbreaking ceremony was held for the new Lakes District Hospital and Health Centre in Burns Lake, Northern BC. This new $55 million facility will completely replace the existing hospital and health centre and enable the medical clinic and community services to be located together in the same building.
Check out this video of the day’s events.
CEI Architecture is part of the team designing the new hospital and health centre, working with PCL Constructors Westcoast.
“The new hospital will be a welcome addition by families and health-care professionals alike,” said Nechako Lakes MLA John Rustad, on behalf of Health Minister Margaret MacDiarmid. “Building patient care in Burns Lake with the replacement of Lakes District Hospital and Health Care has been a true community effort.”
An official press release was also issued with more information.
Apr
11
Just 20 minutes away from the heart of the City of Victoria sits Prospect Lake in Saanich, once considered the cottage country of rural Victoria. The lake is now home to year-round residents, and is the site of CEI Architecture’s latest single-family home project.
Mar
28
By Conrad Boychuk
Mark Taylor was Abbotsford’s dynamic and energetic General Manager of Parks Recreation and Culture. He was one of those individuals who lived life to the fullest. Mark passed away on March 12th, while on a skiing expedition on the Wapta Traverse north east of Golden.
Mark was a good friend of CEI, involving us in the Abbotsford Rec Centre Programming Study, and more recently, with possible modifications to the Reach Gallery Museum. My own working relationship with Mark goes back to 1998, when he was with the City of Surrey. We were breaking new ground back then, venturing into what would later be described as public/private partnerships. Those early projects included a major study for the expansion of the Newton Recreation Centre, and shortly afterwards, the master-planning of a new facility for Guildford. Mark was both an exceptional process manager, and an advocate for the neighbourhood experience. He was also someone who could think outside the box; something that was very necessary back then.
Mar
25
By Mark Hentze
This past January saw the passing of a great friend of CEI Architecture and the recreation field in Canada with the loss of Brian Storrier. Brian made many friends at CEI through the various projects we worked on together.
CEI had the opportunity to work with Brian on a number of projects after he left the public realm as a facility operator and recreation professional and became a private consultant. Our first project with Brian was the Gibsons and Area Community Centre. Brian excelled at a challenging role on the project, coordinating objectives of both the Regional District and Town of Gibsons. That was the beginning of a friendship made even stronger by the ferry rides to Langdale where Brian, our team and TASK, the construction manager, would travel together and trade stories over breakfast.
We worked with Brian again in New Westminster, Coquitlam, and recently on a feasibility study for improvements to the Kerry Park Arena on Vancouver Island. From Brian, we learned a lot about the political process and were impressed by his calmness under fire that typically resulted in his recommendations being followed.
Mar
18
Situated 160 km north of Revelstoke, BC, on Kinbasket Lake, Mica Heli Ski Lodge’s remote location put the innovation and ingenuity of the design and construction team to the test. CEI Architecture led the design of the new 14,000-square-foot lodge, which was completed in December 2012, just in time for the ski season. The building team was led by Vic Van Isle Construction.
Mar
15
Northern Health selected the team of PCL Constructors Westcoast Inc. and CEI Architecture as the preferred proponent for the Lakes District Hospital and Health Centre in Burns Lake.
The new hospital is scheduled to be complete by fall 2015, and will replace the existing hospital. It will house 16 beds, provide acute‐care and emergency services, diagnostic imaging, a laboratory and pharmacy. Facility space is planned for the medical clinic along with the delivery of mental‐health and addictions services, public health, and home and community care, and will include administrative and logistical services.
The building, an estimated total value of $55 million, will be built to LEED Gold standards and will align with the Wood First Act by optimizing the use of wood.
For more, see this press release by Partnerships BC.