Service: Lighting Design
Public Health Ontario Laboratories
MaRS Discovery District
“Every day, the entrepreneurs and innovators at MaRS work on ideas that will save lives, invent whole new industries and create jobs we can’t even imagine today.”
— Glen Murray, then-Minister of Research and Innovation
The MaRS* Discovery District combines a variety of companies, research disciplines and professional services, specifically promoting cross-institutional collaboration. The complex comprises approximately 1.5 million ft2.
HH Angus was engaged by Public Health Ontario to engineer its space in the MaRS Phase II building, in order to provide a new public health laboratory in Toronto. The project was a leasehold improvement of approximately 160,000 ft2 on the top four floors of the MaRS Phase II Tower in Toronto.
The project scope included CL-2 and CL-3 laboratories and associated support systems, as well as related office, administrative and support space.
The CL-2 and CL-3 labs were designed, constructed, commissioned and certified in accordance with the Health Canada Laboratory Biosafety Guidelines, as well as other authorities having jurisdiction. Merrick and Company was involved in the CL-3 architecture and engineering design.
SERVICES
Mechanical Engineering | Electrical Engineering | Vertical Transportation Design | Lighting Design | Communications & Security
PROJECT FEATURES
Size: 160,000 ft2 | Status: Completed 2014
LOCATION
Toronto, Ontario
KEY SCOPE ELEMENTS
Implemented new laboratory design | CL-2 and CL-3 labs | Associated support systems and office space
Safer spaces, lower costs
HH Angus negotiated with the City of Toronto for low level exhaust and supply. Instead of 1cfm/ft2, we implemented .75cfm/ft2. This resulted in the delivery of a safer site at less cost, as well as lower operating costs.
Density equals design complexity
This project was a complicated fitout, due to the high density of scientific equipment and associated requirements for mechanical and electrical infrastructure; for example, the large number of fume hoods on site.
*MaRS refers to Medical and Related Sciences, the original mandate for the operation. When the founders wanted to further the commercial potential of research and science investment, the acronym came to represent the P3 development as a whole.
Quote source: MaRS Centre Phase 2 Set for Completion in Fall 2013
Toronto Athletic Club
Stratus Restaurant
HH Angus’ lighting design for Stratus Restaurant was honoured with an IES North America Illumination Design Award of Merit, as well as an award from The Society of British Interior Designers in their Restaurant and Bar category.
Located 36 stories above the streets of downtown Toronto, Stratus Restaurant has a reputation for providing guests with both outstanding cuisine and flawless service, together with impressive views of the downtown, harbour and Toronto Islands. HH Angus was engaged to provide lighting design, with accompanying electrical and mechanical engineering for an interior design refresh of this popular 10 plus-year old dining establishment.
The entrance to Stratus is in a high-rise commercial tower at the TD Centre. Ceiling light sources consist of LED coin lights to simulate a starry night, with LED downlights hidden in the wood slat ceiling over the lounge and bar areas. LED cove lighting was used at the far end of the lounge and under the reception pedestal. In-ground LED lights uplight wood slats to enhance the décor and coloured glass panels within slats. All lights are zoned and DMX controls allow for independent dimming to enhance the mood. The colour temperature is 3500K for all sources, to enhance the variety of colour palettes.
The bar area and bottled wine storage were backlit with LED panels in the client’s corporate colour. The bar was highlighted with an LED side-emitting ribbon light. All areas were zoned and can be dimmed independently, and lighting controls were configured to allow master control when doors are open and slave controls when door are closed. The restaurant lighting design achieved 1W/ft2, surpassing ASHRAE requirements of 1.4 W/ft2, and was delivered within budget.
SERVICES
Lighting Design | Mechanical Engineering | Electrical Engineering
PROJECT FEATURES
Status: Completed 2015
LOCATION
Toronto, Ontario
KEY SCOPE ELEMENTS
Lighting design | All areas zoned and can be dimmed independently | LED cove lighting, inground LED uplights | Lighting controls configured to allow both master control and slave control | Achieved 1W/ft2, surpassing ASHRAE requirements of 1.4 W/ft2
Enhancing the ambiance
The lighting system zoning was balanced for both daytime and nighttime use, to provide customers with a warm and intimate dining experience.
SickKids
Peter Gilgan Centre for Research & Learning, ICAT
Creative solutions were required to accommodate the extremely intense and sophisticated computer systems within the architectural constraints of this building.
Angus Connect provided a Canadian first — the design and implementation of an HPC-High Performance data centre in a healthcare research facility.
Our recommended technical solution involved an overhead communications wiring system design, using multiple cable trays with an integral cable access management system. This innovative system design solution resulted in considerable space savings over a conventional system. A conventional raised floor communications cabling system was not an option due to space restrictions.
This Data Centre, which supports data cabinets with high performance servers that use 60 KW load, required very large and fully redundant Uninterruptible Power Supplies (UPS) and emergency generator systems to support the critical loads.
The facility has been certified LEED® Gold. The shell and core design were already well along when the Hospital’s High Performance computing group announced their intention to locate all of their high performance computing equipment into the new Data Centre.
SERVICES
Mechanical Engineering | Electrical Engineering | IT Communications Design | Lightining Design
PROJECT FEATURES
Size: 740,000 ft2 | Status: Completed 2013
LOCATION
Toronto, Ontario
KEY SCOPE ELEMENTS
Introduced innovative system solutions for urban-space saving, along with sophisticated computer systems | LEED Gold Certified
Ministry of the Attorney General/Infrastructure Ontario
Thunder Bay Consolidated Courthouse
This multi-storey building features 15 courtrooms, 4 conference/settlement suites, and Ontario’s first aboriginal conference settlement suite. It is LEED® Silver-certified, with barrier-free design, infrared hearing assistance and barrier-free witness stands and jury boxes.
HH Angus provided electrical engineering design, vertical transportation engineering and lighting design for the 8-storey building (seven above grade and one below grade for parking and holding cells). The electrical design features 100% emergency generator backup, UPS (uninterrupted power supply) and inverter lighting systems.
Lighting design included interior lighting, exterior building perimeter and parking. Exterior lighting was designed to be ‘dark sky compliant’, and all lighting design and luminaires targeted LEED® Silver. Custom lighting was designed for the aboriginal conference settlement suite, and featured low energy metal halide T5 fluorescent uplighting for the domed ceiling surfaces and LED downlights for general lighting.
Vertical transportation systems were designed to provide dedicated service for each of the primary forms of facility traffic: public, private (judicial), prisoner and building services. There are twelve elevators in total, the majority of which are Machine-Room-Less (MRL) gearless traction type. This elevator type represented the latest technological advance for energy efficiency and operational performance for low-to-medium rise buildings. Custom cab finishes for the public and private elevators complement the building’s interior design, while the prisoner elevators include an interior partition for the safe movement of accused by security staff.
SERVICES
Electrical Engineering | Lighting Design | Vertical Transportation Design
PROJECT FEATURES
Status: Completed 2014
LOCATION
Thunder Bay, Ontario
KEY SCOPE ELEMENTS
Designed transportation system to provide dedicated service for each form of facility traffic | Custom lighting design for specific conference suite featured low metal halide T5 fluorescent uplighting| MRL gearless traction type was used for - the majority of the elvators| LEED Silver
Built to last
The Courthouse was a design-build-finance-maintain project, with life-cycle repair and renewal responsibilities that ensure the courthouse (including heating and cooling systems, windows, floors, roofing structures and hard landscaping) is kept in excellent working condition over the 30-year period.
Teknion
Tenant Office Fitout
HH Angus’ scope of work required that all design for this ultra modern Toronto office space and showroom target LEED®-CI Gold certification.
A key design challenge for our team was the client’s strong preference for clean ceilings. This meant the design had to minimize conduit runs, devices, etc. Underfloor systems were used in the engineering design to ensure the majority of the mechanical and electrical infrastructure was concealed. The mechanical distribution under the raised floor used Camino systems.
SERVICES
Mechanical Engineering | Electrical Engineering | Lighting Design
PROJECT FEATURES
Size: 10,750 ft2 | Status: Completed 2016
LOCATION
Toronto, Ontario
KEY SCOPE ELEMENTS
Tenant fitout | LEED-CI Gold Certified | WELL Certified Underfloor systems to conceal services | Statement lighting
Site-specific design
Our design team was challenged in locating services and systems, given both raised floors and exposed ceilings. The ceilings featured suspended direct/indirect lighting throughout the space.
Statement lighting design
Speciality and decorative lighting played an important role in this project, from selection of fixtures and providing samples and budgets for client approval, to photometrics to meet showroom conditions.
