Construction
With the advancement in technology, building complexity is consistently increasing and the expectation to reduce timelines is mounting. Combined with the various contract styles that clients utilize, general contractors have their hands full. Only with experience and practice is one able to stay versed on the ever adapting and changing construction field. I have been fortunate in my career to experience Lump sum, CM, and P3 projects with both public and private clients. These projects have ranged from $100,000 to $200 million. Below are a selection of projects that I have been apart of.
Revelstoke, BC
Mixed Use - Commercial and Residential
Mackenzie Plaza - Mackenzie Village Phase 2 and 3
Mackenzie Village is designed first and foremost to be a community. Owners will enjoy shared outdoor living space, including recreational facilities and landscaped parks and playgrounds.
Mackenzie Plaza incorporated a shared parkade between four 4 story buildings. The buildings structures are a combination of steel frames, beams, and load bearing studs, with a concrete parkade and concrete topping on each floor. The entire project includes 121 residential units ranging from 1 to 4 bedroom units and 37000sqft of commercial space.
Client:
Mackenzie Village
Consultant:
Stark Architecture
Duration:
2 years
Tsawwassen, BC
Industrial/Civil
Tsawwassen Sheet Pile Wall Refurbishment Project
Tsawwassen terminal had been experiencing increased flooding due to storm events and the sheet pile wall (the interface between the shore and the water), had reached the end of its service life. The lower portion of the wall was replaced with a subtidal concrete wall and riprap system. A concrete recurve wave wall was installed at the top of the wall to increase the elevation of the foreshore interface. A drainage system including a pump station was installed and built as an additional measure to prevent flooding and improve service.
The project had to be completed during the day time throughout the summer season to take advantage of low tidal periods. This resulted in the added difficulty of safely redirecting traffic through and/or around our job site.
Client:
BC Ferries
Consultant:
Stantec
Duration:
8 months
Surrey, BC
Residential - Permanent Modular
BC Housing Surrey Guildford Supportive Housing
The Surrey Guildford Supportive Housing initiative entailed erecting a six-storey building primarily composed of prefabricated modular units atop a site-built concrete podium. The ground floor features a slab-on-grade foundation with a suspended concrete slab above. Five floors of prefabricated modules were crane-set onto the suspended slab. The building hosts 61 self-contained residential units alongside support amenities such as a commercial kitchen, dining area, medical facility, office space, staff lounge, and reception area.
Client:
BC Housing
Consultant:
Ron Hart Architects
Duration:
1 year
Yellowknife, NT
Private Public Partnership/Institutional
Stanton Territorial Hospital
The Stanton Territorial Hospital renewal project was a joint venture between Clark Builders and Bird Construction and is the largest project ever undertaken by the Government of the Northwest Territories. The new hospital is nearly twice the size of the original. With 110 inpatient beds, three state of the art operating rooms and six dialysis stations, the Stanton Territorial Hospital offers extensive inpatient, critical, and support services, including biomedical and IT. An additional, unique feature to the hospital is the inclusion of an in-house church with the capacity to host smudging ceremonies.
Technical features of the building include biomass boilers, which will serve as the main heat source, with dual fuel boilers as back up and a 30% spare capacity on selected major mechanical and electrical systems.
Client:
Government of Northwest Territories
Consultant:
Kasian Architecture
Duration:
4 years
Surrey, BC
Institutional
Surrey Transit Centre CNG Facility & Upgrades
The Surrey Transit Centre consists of five buildings and serves as an existing bus maintenance, bus wash and fueling facility, as well a main administration facility for operations and main control centre for Lower Mainland busses. The project has a two faceted objective of renovating the envelopes of the maintenance and administration buildings inclusive of re-roofing and curtain wall replacement, and upgrading all the buildings in the facility for safe-use and operation with natural gas busses.
Client:
South Coast British Columbia Transportation Authority
Consultant:
SNC Lavalin
Duration:
23 months
West Vancouver, BC
Retail/Commercial
Park Royal North Renovations
The North side of Park Royal was completely transformed and revitalized on the interior and exterior to contain a City Market, Steve Nash, Saks off 5th, and BCs largest BCL. Due to the shear size of the renovations, and the minimal amount of original drawings, the design was ongoing throughout the duration of the project. This created many challenges that were overcome and resulted in a beautifully finished mall.
Client:
Park Royal Shopping Centre Holding Ltd.
Consultant:
Musson Cattel Mackey Partnership (MCMP)
Duration:
2 years
4 cities in BC
Richmond, Coquitlam, Port Coquitlam, and Maple Ridge
Industrial/Commercial
TransLink Bike Parkades
Bird contributed to TransLink's sustainable transportation initiative in Metro Vancouver by constructing five new bike parkades at existing stations, including three SkyTrain stations (Bridgeport, Lafarge Lake, and Burquitlam) and two West Coast Express Stations (Port Coquitlam and Maple Meadows). Handling diverse civil works tailored to each site, Bird erected standalone buildings featuring structural steel frames, glazing facades, NLT roof decks, SBS roofing, and paving stone landings leading to secured steel doors. Interior features include double-stacked bike racks, concrete benches with NLT tops, sealed concrete floors, and security systems.
Client:
TransLink
Consultant:
Carscadden Stokes McDonald Architects
Duration:
11 months
Victoria, BC
Civil
West Shore parkway Road Completion Project - Segment 8
Segment 8 of the West Shore Parkway Road Project resulted in widening of the Trans-Canada highway to make way for dual left turn lanes. This 2 km section required underground pipe work, while maintaining traffic flow and meeting BC highway standards.
Client:
City of Langford
Consultant:
WSP
Duration:
6 months
Surrey, BC
Civil
King George Blvd Widening
King George Boulevard is major thoroughfare in South Surrey. Due to the high traffic, much of the road has been widened. We were tasked with a 1km section between 32nd Ave Diversion and 152nd St intersection. The work included new underground utilities, widening from two lanes to four, a meridian with turning lanes, traffic lights, and landscaping.
Client:
City of Surrey
Consultant:
McElhanney
Duration:
4 months