General Motors of Canada

Plant Additions

HH Angus has served as the Prime Consultant for a variety of automotive plant additions and renovations for General Motors. These are three of many projects for this valued client.

C/K* Truck Plant

HH Angus coordinated the 1,800,000 ft2 addition to both the building and building services for the new modular paint shop, body shop, paint oven enclosure and elpo phosphate process.

This project included the installation of three 633-ton chillers and one 250-ton chiller for building and process chilled water loads.

* C/K: C indicates 2-wheel drive trucks and K refers to 4-wheel drive.

GMT 800 Oshawa Truck Plant

This was a 300,000 ft2 addition to the existing C/K Truck Plant in Oshawa. Our project scope included coordinating architectural and structural design, mechanical/electrical design, and contract administration. The building is a 35 foot high, single-storey structure with insulated metal siding and 42,000 ft2 mezzanines with washrooms and one mezzanine for the welder water system. The project included a new 8,000 ft2 room and a quality measurement laboratory. The project included electrical bus duct distribution to process loads, as well as a quadruple-ended paralleled welding distribution system for welding robots.

Renovations to C/K Truck Plant

This project consisted of a four-bay addition with four levels to the existing paint shop facility at the Oshawa Truck Plant to house a new primer surfacer spray booth, accumulator conveyor, prep booth, freight elevator, storage, clean room and all associated building services.

SERVICES
Prime Consultant | Mechanical Engineering | Electrical Engineering

PROJECT FEATURES
Size: 1,800,000 ft2 | Status: Completed 1999

LOCATION
Oshawa, Ontario

KEY SCOPE ELEMENTS
1,800,000 ft2 addition | Installation of three 633-ton chillers and one 250-ton chiller | Prime Consultant for 300,000 ft2 plant addition

— Image courtesy of General Motors of Canada

Canadian Museum Construction Corp.

National Art Gallery of Canada

We are very proud of our contribution to Canada’s National Gallery, one of the country’s landmark institutions.

This project consisted of two buildings: the Gallery building of 549,000 ft2 and an administration building of ~54,000 ft2. The Gallery building houses Canada’s national art collection in state-of-the-art environmental conditions, with close control of temperature, humidity and high efficiency air filtration.

Each gallery has individual control of its environment, and high levels of humidity are maintained year round. Air with low of humidity levels is supplied to public circulation areas, such as the colonnade, galleria and Great Hall, to prevent migration of humidity from the art display galleries. Such migration could cause condensation on the large areas of exterior glass that enclose the building during the cold Ottawa winters.

In addition to the public galleries, administration offices and cafeteria, there are restoration workshops, authenticity and verification laboratories, paint and varnish shops, photograph storage, and fine art storage areas. A 200-car underground parking garage and loading dock were also incorporated.

The low-rise design of this gallery involved stairways and ramps as features, which eased the requirements for passenger elevators. Freight requirements, on the other hand, required large units for the movement of exhibits, with the doors of these elevators measuring up to 12’8” wide by 12’0” high.

SERVICES
Mechanical Engineering | Vertical Transportation

PROJECT FEATURES
Size: 550,000 ft2 | Status: Completed 1989

LOCATION
Ottawa, Ontario

Government of Canada

Fenbrook Medium Security Institution

This medium security institution is comprised of thirteen buildings with a capacity to house 400 residents, and provisions to incorporate another 100-bed unit.

The 260,000 ft2 facility includes: four residences, gatehouse, chapel, family visiting centre, a facility to accommodate industrial work, a building to house resident programs, a detention/segregation/health care centre, an administrative base cogeneration facility and a correspondence/visiting building.

HH Angus was responsible for the full mechanical and electrical design, as well as the site services package. Our scope of work included: sewers, wastewater pumping, stormwater collection, water mains, fire protection system, pumping and mains, central cogeneration and district heating plant, central emergency power generation, normal and emergency power distribution, communications distribution and site lighting.

The institution is located on an environmentally sensitive site, adjacent to a smaller minimum security institution. HH Angus undertook detailed studies to ensure that the impact of the facility on the surroundings would be as minimal as possible. One of the results this study was the realization that the planned on-site water supply and sewage disposal was not compatible with the commitment to environmental concerns. To address this, six kilometres of sewage and water mains were extended to the nearby town of Gravenhurst.

We also conducted a load-displacement cogeneration feasibility study as part of this project. The study concluded that cogeneration would be a worthwhile addition for this facility. The system consisted of:

an 850 kW natural gas-fired reciprocating engine with engine coolant and exhaust gas heat recovery, coupled to a district heating system
two dual fuel flex tube hot water boilers to provide supplementary heat
variable speed secondary pumps to distribute hot water to the thirteen site buildings through a pre-insulated buried steel piping system.

SERVICES
Mechanical Engineering | Electrical Engineering

PROJECT FEATURES
Size: 260,000 ft2 | Status: Completed 1998

LOCATION
Gravenhurst, Ontario

KEY SCOPE ELEMENTS

Environmentally-sensitive site | M&E design included sewers, wastewater pumping, storm water collection | 6 km of sewage and water mains extended | Load-displacement cogeneration feasibility study was also conducted

Protecting the Environment

Thanks to a pro-active approach by HH Angus, this institution benefitted from cost-effective and environmentally sensitive methods of servicing the facility.

— Image courtesy of Bondfield

City of Waterloo

Waterloo Recreational Complex

The Waterloo Recreation Complex consists of a 3,500 seat multipurpose arena, an eight lane, 35 metre swimming pool with a 400 seat gallery, a rolling bulkhead, a moveable floor, a leisure pool with slide, a whirlpool, tots pool, meeting and fitness facilities and a banquet bar area with a view of both the pool and the arena. Extra seating for an additional 2,000 people can be accommodated by temporary bleachers surrounding the rubberized running track which encircles the arena.

HH Angus provided design services for mechanical, electrical, and lighting, as well as contract administration for the construction of the sports complex.

A fully integrated ammonia/brine refrigeration system was installed for ice making and air conditioning, utilizing ice storage. Ice rink compressors were used to charge ice storage tanks for air conditioning, compressor heat recovery for building and pool heating, and airside heat recovery.

The ice making plant is comprised of four 50hp ammonia compressors and a single chiller. Ethylene glycol is distributed to make the ice surface, and the temperature of the ice can be customized to suit ice hockey, figure skating or curling. The ice rink is used 18 hours per day, seven days week, for 46 weeks of the year, and the facility is fully air conditioned.

In addition to maintaining the ice surface, any excess cooling capacity in the ice making plant is used to make ice, which is stored for reducing peak consumption of electricity of the air conditioning cooling plant. The rink also features a vacuum sand filter system,

The Complex was among only ten such facilities in Canada, the United States, Europe, and Australia to be honoured with the 1995 Award of Merit from Athletic Business Magazine.

SERVICES
Mechanical Engineering | Electrical Engineering

PROJECT FEATURES
Status: Completed 1993

LOCATION
Waterloo, Ontario

KEY SCOPE ELEMENTS
Installation of fully integrated Ammonia/Brine refrigeration system | Ice rink compressors used to charge ice storage tanks for air conditioning | Compressor added for heat recovery for building and pool heating

CAMI Automotive

Joint Venture General Motors of Canada & Suzuki Motor Company

CAMI Automotive is the largest Canadian/Japanese joint venture automotive plant in Canada. HH Angus provided project management and served as Prime Consultant for the design of the buildings, building services, site services, storm water management system, waste water treatment facilities, and a new rail spur.

The main building is one kilometre long, approximately ~2,475,000 ft2/230,000 m2 in area, and consists of a grouped series of 215 ft2 or 20 m2 structural bays. Essentially, four separate automobile production plants are located under one roof: stamping, welding, painting and final assembly. Each plant has its own incoming electrical service and ventilation system. A rail spur serves a 25-acre paved shipping compound.

The greenfield project was built outside the town of Ingersoll, and the construction was fast tracked. HH Angus engineers worked closely with the construction managers in scheduling and organizing the project.

An independently-situated central plant provides heating and process steam, compressed air, and reverse osmosis-treated process water. The fully air-conditioned office building is connected to the main building by an overhead pedestrian and services bridge. The steam plant includes four boilers operating at 150 psig, three at 100,000 pounds per hour capacity and one at 35,000 pounds per hour. All boilers were designed to operate on either natural gas or Number 2 oil.

After assessing the local water quality, which was completely supplied by wells, and a review of available treatment systems, we determined that a reverse osmosis system best suited the needs of the plant. The main components of this system, which was designed for a capacity of 550 US gallons per minute (gpm), are four parallel banks of thin composite membranes, five booster pumps, and two storage tanks, each with a capacity of 15,400 US gpm.

The compressed air system includes five compressors, two at 2000 scfm capacity and three at 5000 scfm (standard cubic feet per minute) capacity. Three desiccant-type air driers are incorporated into this system, which uses galvanized steel pipe with grooved type couplings for distribution purposes throughout the plant.

The air handling units for the stamping, welding, and assembly plants were lifted by helicopter to their final locations on the various plant rooftops. These twenty-four units were selected for a capacity of 50,000 cubic feet per minute each, even though some were to be initially operated at other capacities. The paint plant was designed with full air conditioning, to help control paint quality. These units, along with the chilled water plant components, were housed in a penthouse over the paint plant.

The main electrical feeds to the plant are two 27.6 kV overhead lines which supply two 25 MVA transformers. Site distribution is via six 13.8 kV/480 V double-ended unit substations for general plant loads, and one 13.8 kV/4160 V double-ended unit substation for the central plant air compressors.

SERVICES
Prime Consultant | Project Managers | Mechanical Engineering | Electrical Engineering

PROJECT FEATURES
Size: approx 230,000 m2 / 2,500,000 ft2 in area | Grouped series of 20 m2 structural bays | Status: Completed 1988

LOCATION
Ingersoll, Ontario

— Photo provided by General Motors of Canada