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Maple Reinders undertook the Construction Management for this 18,000 s.f. four-storey commercial office building in Vancouver, B.C. On a constrained site in the downtown core, the unique Mass Timber structure showcases how light industrial, commercial office, and rooftop garden uses can fuse seamlessly into one complementary building design. The superstructure was built from a hybrid of cross-laminated timber (CLT) and glue-laminated timber (glulam) with a concrete core, while the building’s spacious, airy design and high ceilings highlighted the exposed mass timber structure. The challenging site and additional time required for construction were offset by the prefabricated mass timber components, which allowed for quicker and easier assembly.

The building features a two-level underground parkade that is serviced by a vehicle elevator. The ground floor is designed for light industrial use, the second floor became the new home of Ekistics Architecture, and the third floor was designated as a future tenanted space.

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Located deep beneath the Oakridge Park development in Vancouver, Maple Reinders is building a vertical closed-loop GeoExchange field consisting of hundreds of boreholes with depths of 500-1000 feet, within a tight urban site. Harnessing the earth’s stable temperature to provide heating in the winter and cooling in the summer, the GeoExchange system will provide approximately 65% of the thermal energy requirements in conjunction with heat recovery chillers for the massive development that encompasses 14 towers with 2,600 homes, 1.5 million square feet of retail and work space, and a 10-acre park. To add to the challenge, Maple Reinders is constructing the district energy system in a discreet, centrally-located parkade.

At the Lulu Island Wastewater Treatment Plant, Maple Reinders installed a large biodome as the last milestone for a climate action project that cleans surplus biogas from the digestion phase of wastewater treatment solids. The system then transforms the biogas into a renewable, natural gas and injects it into Fortis BC’s natural gas grid. This type of facility is rare and is believed to be the first of its kind in British Columbia, according to the client, Metro Vancouver. More than 600 homes can be heated via the renewable natural gas generated by the Lulu Island facility. Maple Reinders prepared extensive logistics and site-specific safety plans, as the process enclosure and three process vessels had to be hoisted by dual cranes and carefully maneuvered in between existing equipment and piping already in place. Intensive quality checks ensured exact levels and tolerances were met.

Municipalities across Canada face the continual challenge of what to do with sludge and other by-products generated through their wastewater treatment processes. Maple Reinders undertook a multi-faceted Design-Build-Finance-Operate-Maintain contract to create a facility that treats these residual materials from a large wastewater treatment plant in the Greater Victoria area. Our unique facility digests, thickens, dewaters, and dries more than 14,000 dry tonnes of residuals per year. The end-product from this process is high-quality, thermally dried biosolids granules and is safe for beneficial reuse – such as fertilizer or as an alternative energy source. The system is also entirely energy neutral. The energy harvested from the solid waste during the treatment process is reused to power and heat the facility.

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Maple Reinders was engaged to design and build a new SSTP for the Tsawwassen First Nation on a greenfield site of formerly fertile farm lands built on thousands of years of silt and sand deposits from the Fraser River. Due to poor subsurface conditions, and the requirement for the facility to be designed as a Post Disaster facility, extensive ground improvement measures were required. The plant was designed for an average daily flow of 4500m3/day, maximum daily of 8100m3/day and peak flow of 17,000m3/day.

Architecturally, the design incorporated exterior building colours typically used in First Nations artwork on the Process Building, and cedar siding on the exterior of the Operations Building, designed with lines similar to that of a First Nation Longhouse.

Exposed wood walls were used throughout both buildings and both the Process Building and Operations Building utilized Cross-Laminated Timber panels for their superstructures to minimize the overall weight of the structures and incorporate a “natural” feel to the facility.

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The VegPro Chinook Packaging Plant is an agri-food complex in which baby lettuces are grown on a farm, with the packaging plant on the same site to maximize product freshness. The project involved the construction of a new refrigerated processing plant of approximately 67,000 SF to house agricultural and food processing activities. The office component houses administrative offices, laboratory, meeting rooms, first aid room, utility room, employee areas and cafeteria.

The plant area, in compliance with CFIA regulations, is comprised of raw product receiving; raw product storage; production area (wash line, clamshell line, kit line, packaging mezzanine), vacuum cooling process, infeed product racking storage, finished product storage and loading docks. The building is equipped with unit heaters, lighting, storm and sanitary services. The plant also has its own transformer installed by Maple Reinders.

In addition to the Building work, Maple Reinders also performed Civil services on the project, including storm water management, sanitary and process wastewater disposal systems with the process water disposal system consisting of a rapid infiltration system.

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