INNOVATION July-August 2014

Hillside Centre Renovation and Expansion

In 2012 the Hillside Centre began an $80-million renovation and expansion, adding over 150,000 ft 2 of retail space. Due to the mall’s close proximity to Bowker Creek, the client and design team chose to incorporate several low-impact development features within the parking area and road frontage to provide treatment of storm water runoff, thereby lessening the mall’s impervious footprint. Rain gardens, permeable pavers, a ground water recharge cistern, oil/grit interceptors and an increase in vegetation remove over 80% of total suspended solids and provide a reduction in phosphorus and nitrogen loads. Client/owner: Triovest Investment Management. Civil engineer: Bruce Crawshaw, P.Eng. (Westbrook Consulting). Landscape architect: Randy Sharp (Sharp & Diamond Landscape Architecture). Architects: MMC Architecture/CEI Architecture. Contractor: Ellis Don-Kinetic Joint Venture.

Cobre Panama Project Owned by First Quantum Minerals, Cobre Panama is a copper porphyry deposit, located approximately 120 km west of Panama City. The project will be the largest mine in Central America and has been called the most ambitious development in Panama since the building of the Panama Canal. Ausenco has been heavily involved with the development of the marine terminal over the years from concept through to detailed design for the causeway/breakwater (including a hydraulic model testing program), Module Offloading Facility (MOF), commodity/construction berths and copper concentrate export/coal import jetty. Using extensive ports/ terminals/transportation experience, the team delivered significant capital cost-savings for the client throughout the design.

Hydro-geomorphic Assessment of Lower Adams River, Roderick Haig-Brown Provincial Park

BC Parks expressed an interest in conducting a hydro-geomorphic assessment of the lower Adams River, east of Kamloops, BC, in order to review the historic patterns in river morphology and instability and determine the suitability of a location for a new fish-viewing platform in Roderick Haig-Brown Provincial Park. A previous platform, which was utilized by up to one million visitors per year to observe one of the most important sockeye spawning grounds in North America, succumbed to the erosional forces of the river and was removed in 2011. Construction of the new platform is planned this summer at a lower risk location prior to a dominant sockeye run and the Salute to the Sockeye event in fall 2014. Project team: Lars Uunila, P.Geo., P.H., CPESC (Polar Geoscience). Raymond Visser, (L.A. West Associates). Bob Harding (Fisheries and Oceans Canada). Photo credit: Fisheries and Oceans Canada.

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