INNOVATION July-August 2016

Airside Operations Building Enhances Airport Safety Vancouver International Airport’s Airside Operations Building successfully opened in 2015, and now provides a consolidated home for all response services, airside operations, airfield maintenance, and fleet maintenance. Located in a centralised location, the new facility enhances overall airport safety by reducing the return to service times for equipment and shortening runway closures caused by winter conditions or

foreign-object debris incidents. The buildings are post-disaster rated and demonstrate sustainable design with geothermal heating and cooling, LED lighting throughout, grid-tied wind turbines and solar photovoltaics, solar hot water, rainwater collection, and the use of local, renewable and recycled building materials. The project received incentives under BC Hydro’s Power Smart New Construction Program. Client: Vancouver Airport Authority; Consultant Team: Francl Architecture, Read Jones Christoffersen Ltd., Integral Group, MCW Consultants Ltd., Morrow Engineering Ltd., SNC Lavalin Inc., Genivar, Michel Labrie Architect Inc., Komm-Lynn Associates, LMDG Ltd., BKL Consultants Ltd., Blue Marble Architecture Inc.

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Baggage Backbone System at YVR Vancouver International Airport (YVR) has the strategy to be the

Asia–Pacific Gateway into North America. To achieve this, it needed to reduce transfer-baggage–connection times and to automate the flow of transfer bags. Vanderlande was selected by YVR to design and implement the system. The new system, called a Backbone, connects the existing baggage infrastructure with high-speed conveyors. There is a total of 3.5 kilometres of tub-based conveyor systems (TUBTRAX), 3 kilometres of traditional belt conveyors, and a new control-room software system called VIBES. The project required extensive design and coordination efforts between several parties, including YVR, architects, building consultants, and Vanderlande. The system can automatically transport oversized bags and reduces the amount of tug traffic on the apron, lowering carbon dioxide emissions. The system became operational in the summer of 2016.

Surrey Memorial Hospital’s Support Service Connector Link Currently under construction, the Support Service Connector Link at Surrey Memorial Hospital will connect the recently completed Critical Care Tower with food services, loading docks, and linen and material management, as well as increase efficiency of service delivery, and separate public and hospital services.The link is 3.6 metres wide, 5.5 metres deep and 72 metres long, and runs below grade between and under existing structures. The project is being completed within a tight construction area with constricted access while keeping impacts to hospital operations to a minimum. Due to the narrow width of the excavation and the adjacent below-grade structures, the excavation is generally being completed using an internally braced shoring system that consists of pipe pile-reinforced shotcrete shoring walls with horizontal steel braces. Structural and geotechnical design also included

extensive works to underpin and support the existing three-storey Rotunda Building columns, and foundations to facilitate link-tunnel construction beneath the building. APEGBC members, Fraser Health Authority: Cynthia Pan, P.Eng.; Bush, Bohlman & Partners LLP: Mark Anderson, P.Eng., Struct.Eng.; Clint Low, P.Eng., Struct.Eng.;WSP: Steven Case, P.Eng., Andy Tashiro, P.Eng., Russ Riffell, P.Eng.; Rocky Point Engineering Ltd.: MarkYeung, P.Eng.; PCL: Brian Riddoch, P.Eng., Bryce Dahlen, EIT

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