Service: P3/Design Build/IPD
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.
Northern Health Authority
Fort St. John Hospital & Peace Villa
HH Angus participated in the integrated and sustainable design process, assessing several different mechanical concepts focusing on heat recovery, improved space air distribution and high-efficiency equipment. Considering the climate, extensive consideration was given to balancing the use of 100% outdoor air systems with total enthalpy heat recovery wheels, with the need to reduce energy consumption.
Mechanical and electrical engineering for this new build acute care community hospital included related services such as laundry and food services, and a replacement residential care facility. The hospital provides 58 inpatient beds with full diagnostic and treatment facilities, three operating rooms, endoscopy suite, and 124 residential care beds. Part of our scope, via our affiliate ACML, was to provide the hard Facilities Management for this project.
The project has been certified LEED® Gold and includes specific energy saving elements as a key component of the design. We worked extensively with all other design team members to meet aggressive energy consumption targets without increasing capital costs.
Also notable was the design and construction of the complex and high-efficiency heating plant featuring a series of condensing hot water boilers piped in a cascading temperature arrangement. The focus was on delivering a well-sealed and insulated building to reduce building envelope energy losses and allow the heating boilers to run at peak energy efficiency. This will provide the client with long-term energy savings, as heating costs have traditionally been very high.
The specification of the pad-mounted generator enclosures saved both time and money. Unconventionally, the generators were pre-fabricated and installed in sound-attenuated enclosures before being shipped to site. This allowed for quick ‘plug and play’ installation when these units arrived on site.
Lighting strategies were crucial, with a target of 30% energy reduction below ASHRAE standards while still meeting CSA light level requirements. Implementation of an extensive low voltage lighting control system further reduced energy consumption.
Vertical transportation elements included three passenger elevators and six service elevators.
For the IMIT scope, the Angus Connect team designed a new wired/wireless system, network and infrastructure to help improve workflow with the introduction of RFID tagging to help with inventory and distribution, as well as laying a robust foundation for a future Real Time Location System. Additional major systems included telephone, nurse call, public address, patient entertainment, intercoms, video conferencing and patient monitoring. Our team also planned for and added the infrastructure for the new digital modalities and connection to a centralized PACs system, which improved diagnosing and reporting, and facilitated consultations between staff members.
SERVICES
Mechanical Engineering | Electrical Engineering | IMIT and Security Consulting | Vertical Transportation | Lighting Design
PROJECT FEATURES
Size: 330,000 ft2 | Status: Completed 2012
LOCATION
Fort St. John, British Columbia
PROJECT FEATURES
REVIT MEP provided design and documentation | Centralized UPS | Integrated communications systems platform for all building operations and healthcare applications | LEED® Gold Certified
Respecting Indigenous ceremonies
The two spiritual rooms were designed to accommodate Sweet Grass and Smudging ceremonies, with dedicated exhaust to extract smoke and odours generated from the ceremonies.
— Image courtesy of Fort St. John Hospital Foundation
Penticton Regional Hospital
David E. Kampe Patient Care Tower
This project involved the design, construction, financing and maintenance of a new patient care tower at Penticton Regional Hospital.
The HH Angus team designed all new mechanical facilities – such as boiler plants and chiller plants – to post disaster requirements, in order to comply with provincial regulations. Also, BC’s Wood First Act required that sustainable materials be used throughout the building. The winning design included widespread use of wood elements to create a warm, tranquil environment for patients and visitors.
As part of Interior Health’s commitment to sustainability and green buildings, the new patient care tower was designed and constructed to achieve LEED® Gold and was certified in 2021.
In 2022, the patient care tower project and contractor EllisDon were honoured with a Silver Excellence Award from the Vancouver Regional Construction Association, in the category of ‘General Contractors - Tenant Improvement - Over $15 Million.’
SERVICES
Mechanical Engineering | Electrical Engineering | Vertical Transportation | Energy Modeling | ICAT Consulting
PROJECT FEATURES
Size: 287,500 ft2 | Status: Completed 2019
LOCATION
Penticton, British Columbia
PROJECT FEATURES
Boiler plants and chiller plants | New ambulatory care centre | 480-stall parkade | Renovations to expand ER | LEED Gold Certified
Design for comprehensive services
The Tower features an ambulatory care centre, surgical services centre, 84 medical/surgical inpatient beds in single patient rooms, a new medical device reprocessing unit, and program space for the University of British Columbia’s Faculty of Medicine.
Enabling consolidation
The Tower enhances access to services and improves patient care through consolidation of programs that were previously dispersed throughout the hospital.
New and renovated spaces
The project included two phases, Phase 1 being the design and construction of the new tower and 480-stall parkade. Phase 2 comprises renovations to the existing hospital to create an expanded ER almost four times the size of the original ER, as well as renovations to the pharmacy stores and support areas.
— Images courtesy of Mark Yoo
TD Bank Group
Project Lego, 77 Bloor Street West
Project LEGO* was a 225,600 ft2 renovation in a Class A downtown Toronto tower, and was delivered through a full Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) contract.
The project was heavily phased, as the scope covered twelve floors with, initially, only a single floor of swing space available.
A fully collaborative effort from all team members saw a 10% reduction in total project costs, which achieved the owner’s project goals and resulted in greater savings against an already-reduced target cost.
HH Angus worked closely with the mechanical subcontractor during the intensive schematic design phase to agree on design principles and installation elements and, in the process, reduced the mechanical build costs by 20%. These savings could be realized through a good collaboration with the TD Bank client, who was able to adjust and alter its accepted design standards during the validation process. The collaboration also helped the overall project achieve some aspirational goals that were initially considered as ‘nice to have’.
The IPD process of teaming with multiple user groups was very collaborative and worked well to identify solutions to issues. In the end, the team was successful in meeting the schedule and coming in under budget, which enabled the owner to fund added scope within the project and enhance the overall customer experience for their user groups.
IPD Partners in Project LEGO included: TD Bank - Owner | EllisDon - General Contractor | BGIS - Project Manager| HOK - Architect | HH Angus - Mechanical Engineering | Mulvey & Banani - Electrical Engineering | Modern Niagara - Mechanical Contractor | Symtech - Electrical Contractor | Teknion - Furniture Vendor.
* No actual LEGO® was involved in this project!
SERVICES
Mechanical Engineering
PROJECT FEATURES
Size: 225,600 ft2 | Status: Completed 2015
LOCATION
Toronto, Ontario
KEY SCOPE ELEMENTS
Twelve floors with only a single floor of swing space available | Integrated Project Delivery contract with nine-party team | Interior retrofit | Reduced mechanical build cost by 20%
North Bay Regional Health Centre
The first LEED® registered healthcare facility in Canada, North Bay Regional Health Centre was built on a greenfield site and replaced two general hospitals and a separate mental health facility. HH Angus provided mechanical, electrical, vertical transportation, specialty lighting and communications design consulting engineering for the project.
The gross building area is 725,000 ft2. The facility includes the full range of departments normally found in a regional acute-care, 275-bed hospital, plus a new facility for the Northeast Mental Health Centre. The mental health portion is significant, consisting of 150,000 ft2 and 113 beds, and also includes a significant forensic component.
Using a completely innovative approach, our staff developed 100% outdoor air systems with total enthalpy heat recovery wheels, the first time this system had been implemented in North America. A major advantage of this system is that there is no re-circulated air, which greatly reduces the possibility of infection transmission for patients, staff and visitors. As well, delivering 100% fresh air rather than re-circulated air reduced the need for as many air changes in patient rooms as had previously been the norm. And that change meant that smaller fans and less ductwork were possible, resulting in lower capital cost.
As a value added service, HH Angus constructed a mock patient room to verify airflow patterns for the air distribution system. This ensured that the design was flawless. In addition, reducing air volumes to patient rooms to four changes per hour resulted in changes in the CSA standard.
The project also included:
- Planned future remote cogeneration plant
- High efficiency central heating plant with hot water and steam boilers
- Centrifugal chillers supplemented with a 24/7 chilled water system
- Radiant ceiling panels for perimeter heating
- Enhanced building envelope to achieve energy performance
- Bi-fuel emergency generators with provision for dispatch lighting
- LED lighting
SERVICES
Mechanical Engineering | Electrical Engineering | Communications Design | Lighting Design | Vertical Transportation Consulting
PROJECT FEATURES
Size: 725,000 ft2 | The first modified Alternate Finance Partnership (AFP) in Ontario | Status: Completed 2010
LOCATION North Bay, Ontario
KEY SCOPE ELEMENTS
Greenfield hospital with new mental health centre | A North American first: 100% outdoor air supply with high efficiency total enthalpy heat recovery wheels throughout the hospital, resulting in reduced risk of infection and lower capital costs | One of Canada's first LEED® registered facilities
Custom electrical design
Specialized electrical systems features for the project included a centralized uninterrupted power system and an integrated communications systems platform used for all building operations and healthcare applications.
One of Canada’s first LEED® registered facilities
The main challenge with the design of this facility was performing energy modeling for LEED®. HH Angus’ design team included LEED® Accredited Professionals qualified to carry out a project that met LEED® standards for creation of an energy-efficient building.
— Image courtesy of Evans Bertrand Hill Wheeler Architecture Inc.