Location: Eastern Canada
General Motors of Canada
Welder Water System, Car Assembly & Truck Plants
HH Angus designed the Welder Water System for the car assembly and GMT 800 C/K Truck plants in Oshawa. These systems provide cooling water for all the robot welders, circulating cooling water to the tips of the welders to prevent overheating.
C/K Truck Plant
This plant’s welder water system consisted of a cooling tower system and cooling distribution system. The pumps re-circulate tower water from the indoor sump through heat exchangers and up to the cooling towers. The cooling tower system featured five main components: Cooling towers, indoor sump, recirculation pumps, plate heat exchangers and centrifugal filter units.
The two vital conditions that had to be maintained were temperature and differential pressure. A temperature sensor on the hot side of the heat exchanger (closed loop side) controlled the staging of the cooling towers and the speed of the variable speed drive cooling tower fans. Pressure differential transducers located at the index runs staged the cooling water pumps to maintain differential pressure. The welder tips are extremely sensitive to differential pressure, so very tight pressure tolerances have to be maintained at all times.
Car Assembly Plant
In the Car Plant, renovations required the relocation of the welder water system, together with the supply and installation of three new cooling tower pumps and three new circulation pumps.
The three cooling tower pumps were each 100 horsepower, electrically driven, and with a flow rate of 2670 US gallons per minute. The three circulating pumps were each 150 horsepower.
The distribution piping system extended over 3,000 feet, serving welding robots throughout the car assembly plant. The heat transfer, between the circulating (robot cooling) water and the tower cooling water, takes place in four plate-type heat exchangers.
SERVICES
Mechanical Engineering
PROJECT FEATURES
Status: Completed 2008
LOCATION
Oshawa, Ontario
KEY SCOPE ELEMENTS
Cooling tower system | Sensor-controlled temperature and differential pressure | Three cooling tower pumps @ 100hp with a flow rate of 2670 USGPM | Over 3000 feet of distribution piping serving robots throughout the car assembly plant
— Photos courtesy of General Motors of Canada
Ford Motor Company of Canada
Fuel Cell Building
This building was designed to house Ford’s ‘Fumes-to-Fuel’ technology, which converts toxic volatile organic compounds (VOCs), generated during the painting process, into electricity that powers the plant’s operations.
The Oakville system began with a 120KW internal combustion engine that was installed as part of this project. Ford had plans to add additional power generating equipment.
HH Angus served as Prime Consultant for a new, state-of-the-art, 10,000 ft2 building to house a patented process for the capture of VOCs from spray booths.
This engineered industrial building, with a height of 35.5 feet, was constructed adjacent to the existing Ford plant, but is not linked to the plant. The building contains a public viewing area for Ford’s green energy system, a training room, offices, warehouse and washrooms. All public spaces were air-conditioned. A steam boiler provides heating for both the fuel cell process and the building. The electrical feed to the building supports both the process and building. It was connected to an existing electrical substation located inside the existing plant.
As Prime Consultant, we were responsible for all architectural, engineering and structural disciplines for the building, as well as site services and associated utilities for the fuel cell process to function properly.
SERVICES
Prime Consultant | Mechanical Engineering | Electrical Engineering
PROJECT FEATURES
Size: 10,000 ft2 | Status: Completed 2008
LOCATION
Oakville, Ontario
KEY SCOPE ELEMENTS
Engineered industrial building - with a height of 35.5 feet | Prime Consultant for all disciplines (architectural, structural, mechanical & electrical) as well as site services and associated utilities for the fuel cell process to function properly
Airport Development Corporation
Pearson International Airport - Terminal 3
When Terminal 3 opened in 1991, the 2.8 million ft2 complex was an innovative mixed-use facility consisting of a 24-gate airport terminal, a 500-room hotel, a 3,200-car parking garage and up to 450,000 ft2 of future office space.
The project design combined the priorities of passenger comfort with technical requirements, while emphasizing fiscal responsibility. The terminal has undergone several major renovations since then, resulting in significant expansions to the Central Processor and Pier C.
Vertical Transportation (VT)
The HH Angus VT group was involved from the Concept Design through to inspections, with full design responsibility for the transportation systems, which, at that time, included more than 90 elevating devices, (elevators, escalators and moving walkways).
Our design team’s responsibilities involved managing specification and bid assessment, up to and including final acceptance reviews. The development combined the latest technology with private enterprise economics, which, as it related to VT, translated into excellent standards of service. Later expansion of Pier C included the addition of five elevators, four escalators and six moving walks.
Expansions to the Central Processor included the addition of four elevators and four escalators in the East Processor Expansion, and three elevators, three escalators and two moving walks in the West Processor Expansion.
Within the East Processor expansion, a pedestrian tunnel to the parking garage was introduced to reduce curb traffic between the Terminal Building and parking garage. As a result of this tunnel connection, the three primary elevators on the Terminal side were designed to accommodate the anticipated number of peak hour passengers and associated baggage and carts.
Lighting
Angus Lighting worked in concert with the architectural team to develop lighting design concepts for this prestigious airport. The architectural design called for lighting that would bring excitement to each space, complement the architects’ ambitions and be economically viable.
Special attention was given to innovative lighting techniques with the various lamp sources needed to make the Grand Hall one of the focal points of the terminal.
The resulting design incorporated space, light, brightness, colour, scale and form, while consuming a mere 1.2 watts per square foot.
SERVICES
Vertical Transportation | Lighting Design
PROJECT FEATURES
Status: Stage 1 - 2004, Stage 2 -2007
LOCATION
Mississauga, Ontario
KEY SCOPE ELEMENTS
Design combined passenger comfort with technical requirements while emphasizing fiscal responsibility | Provided support from concept design to inspection with full design responsibility for 90+ elevating devices | Introduced innovative lighting techniques with various lamp sources
Award-winning Lighting Design
Our lighting design for this project was honoured with the prestigious Edwin F. Guth International Award of Excellence.
The Granite Club
Aquatics Complex
The fourth Granite Club opened in 1972 on a beautiful twenty-two acre site on Bayview Avenue, bordering Toronto’s Don Valley. HH Angus was an integral part of the design and construction team for this premier facility, which provides members with one of the most complete and well-equipped athletic facilities in Canada.
HH Angus is privileged to enjoy a 40-plus-year relationship with the Granite Club and has been involved with many upgrades to the 80,000 ft2 structure since it opened.
The mechanical, electrical and lighting design for the Aquatic Complex renovation included features such as a competition-scale swimming pool, training pool, whirlpool, and children’s pool with water features. Design of the addition also addressed the retractable roof and retractable perimeter walls.
The retractable roof posed a challenge for our lighting design team, who had to identify the location of the fixed structural members and incorporate the appropriate lighting design to address the sloped roof. The solution was the selection of luminaires and supporting details on the fixed structural members of the roof construction, accommodating the retractable roof elements.
HH Angus has also designed upgrades to seven squash courts, four badminton courts, eight curling rinks and separate skating rink, bowling alley, outdoor lawn bowling area, six tennis courts, and a fitness centre.
SERVICES
Mechanical Engineering | Electrical Engineering | Lighting Design
PROJECT FEATURES
Size: 80,000 ft2 | Status: Completed 2008
LOCATION
Toronto, Ontario
KEY SCOPE ELEMENTS
Electrical, mechanical, & lighting design for expansion including competition-scale swimming pool, training pool, whirlpool, and children's pool | Retractable roof and retractable perimeter walls
Upgrading sports and fitness facilities
HH Angus has also designed upgrades to seven squash courts, four badminton courts, eight curling rinks and separate skating rink, bowling alley, outdoor lawn bowling area, six tennis courts, and a fitness centre.
— Photos Courtesy Granite Club
University of Guelph
New Science Complex
The University of Guelph undertook an expansion of its Faculty of Science facilities. The complex was constructed in two phases, with the first being a 4-storey, 360,000 ft2 building to house the Departments of Chemistry, Botany, Zoology and Microbiology.
Phase 1 was the 160,000 ft2 New Science Complex. The ground floor is a research module consisting of a large nuclear magnetic resonance suite, electron microscope rooms, and a mass spectrometry facility. An extensive chemical storage area was also located on ground level, and a greenhouse facility was built on the roof.
Phase 2 featured additional graduate research ‘wet’ labs and teaching laboratories in its 200,000 ft2 footprint. An atrium space provided amenities such as a student lounge area and food services facility. Office and support areas were also included.
SERVICES
Mechanical Engineering | Electrical Engineering
PROJECT FEATURES
Size: 360,000 ft2 | Status: Completed Phase I 2004, Phase II 2006
LOCATION
Guelph, Ontario
KEY SCOPE ELEMENTS
3 floors of teaching labs, 3 floors of graduate research wet labs | Extensive chemical storage area on ground level | Greenhouse facility on the roof | Office and support areas
Comprehensive Education Centre
The building formerly known as the Sciences, Advanced Learning and Training Centre (SALT) is now called the New Science Complex.
Engineering multiple laboratory types
The Phase 1 facility features three floors of teaching labs for the Chemistry Department and three floors of graduate research ‘wet’ labs. The ground floor is a research module consisting of a large nuclear magnetic resonance suite, electron microscope rooms and a Mass Spectrometry facility. An extensive chemical storage area is also located on the ground level. A greenhouse facility is located on the roof of this part of the building
