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talk to us Thursday 08 April at noon Marion LaRue Listener Organizer Evaluator Decider Protector David Wilkinson Listener Team Builder Provocateur Champion Solver Chris Rowe Listener Thinker Integrator Clarifier Systematizer Andrew King Listener Imaginer Balancer Culturalist Visualizer Brad Lukanic Listener Planner Knower Creator Asker John Swift Mehrdad Yazdani Matthias Schuler Freda Pagani Craig Hamilton Helen Pang Patricia Roy Stephen Johnson How is a building like a body? 45,000 clients - all unique building your SUB is about process, not genius In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities. In the expert’s mind there are few. Shunryu Suzuki It’s not enough to just be ‘sustainable’ net zero = stasis the new sub needs to be regenerative Buildings learn, communicate, get sick, get healthy, grow things, nurture, change, get old, have memories NEW STUDENT UNION BUILDING AT THE UBC CAMPUS - EXPRESSION OF INTEREST 4 California State University, Dominguez Hills, Loker Student Union Expansion Carson, California When California State University, Dominguez Hills determined that the Donald P. and Katherine B. Loker University Student Union needed to be updated and expanded to accommodate the increasing requirements of its student body, it turned to Cannon Design. The building, located at the heart of the campus, is the centre and soul of campus life. Innovative in design and function, the new facility includes a variety of spaces supporting the latest trends in student unions, activity, and recreation. The expansion project entailed a 65,650 sf renovation of the existing building and a 71,350 sf addition to the north. A multilevel courtyard simultaneously separates and connects the two buildings and provides a common area for students and faculty. The addition, which doubled available program space, provides a fresh, inviting, and open atmosphere and incorporates numerous sustainable design features. More than 50% of existing mechanical, electrical, and plumbing infrastructure, including ducting, piping, conduit and cabling, panels, and controls were reused. The expanded student union contains a variety of student lounge areas to meet student demand for social, interactive space, as well as the student bookstore and other retail outlets, student-services support space, administrative office space, a full production kitchen, and indoor and outdoor dining areas. University of California, San Diego, Price Center Expansion La Jolla, California The plan of the University of California at San Diego’s existing student centre, the Price Center, was developed with an “introverted” configuration - a central courtyard bordered on three sides by all of the building’s program elements facing inward - that established a powerful sense of place and a hub for dining, socializing, and events. When the university’s growth necessitated an expansion of the Price Center, Cannon Design’s solution was to create an “extroverted,” highly permeable addition offering many points of entry and features such as plazas and monumental staircases that engage the building’s surroundings and enrich the street experience. The 172,000 sf addition expands the bookstore and the space available for retail, foodservice, and student organizations and reinforces the primary pedestrian circulation paths linking the sides of campus. In response to the gradual slope of the site, the addition has two “ground floors,” as does the original Price Center, enhancing the accessibility of both the existing facility and the expansion and maximizing revenue from and synergy among retail and foodservice outlets, all located at grade. Consistent with the planning goals of the UCSD Master Plan and the University Center Design Guidelines, the addition’s architectural character and multiple points of entry aid the transformation of the surrounding University Center neighborhood into a “town centre”: a lively, dense, pedestrian-oriented area with a distinctive urban quality, serving as hub for many different activities and the heart of the campus. In support of the university’s goal of achieving the equivalent of a LEED ® Silver rating, the project incorporates a number of sustainable design elements. University of California, Berkeley, Student Services Building and Dining Facility Berkeley, California Comprising 90,000 sf, the new student services building consolidates facilities that were once dispersed about the campus. The new dining commons combines and replaces two existing dining halls that subsequently were demolished. The marche-style servery offers several “platforms” with a variety of menu choices. Using a sustainable approach, the design maximizes daylight and minimizes the use of “applied” decoration. Polished concrete floors, plaster walls, and creative acoustical ceilings establish a simple look that is durable and easy to maintain. California State University, Dominguez Hills, Loker Student Union Expansion University of California, San Diego, Price Center Expansion University of California, Berkeley, Student Services Building and Dining Facility NEW STUDENT UNION BUILDING AT THE UBC CAMPUS - EXPRESSION OF INTEREST 5 Located across from the historic shingle-style Anna Head School and near the famous Christian Science Church by architect Bernard Maybeck, this new building balances the university’s desire for a contemporary student services facility with the need to be responsive and visually appropriate to the urban neighborhood context. University of Connecticut, Student Union Storrs, Connecticut Cannon Design provided programming and architectural design for a 207,750 sf student union to create a new centre of campus life at the University of Connecticut, establishing a connection between central campus activity and the university’s athletics area, including Gampel Arena and the student recreation centre. The student union defines one corner of a major campus quadrangle, reinforcing the quad’s spatial identity and strengthening the new campus pedestrian street to the south. It includes a food court, a ballroom, a 508-seat multiuse theater, multiuse function rooms, conference rooms, expanded offices for student government and student-life organizations, multicultural centres, student lounges, and the campus community post office. The project combines the renovation of a 1950s-era building with more than 152,500 sf of new construction. By locating the addition primarily on the quad side of an existing building, designers addressed the quad with a modern, open appearance while preserving portions of the original facade flanking the outer streetscape. A four-story pedestrian spine follows the building’s north-south axis, uniting various functions with an interior streetscape. Major building entries occur at student activity centres: the theater, lounges, dining area, and ballroom. Camosun College, Pacific Institute for Sport Excellence Victoria, British Columbia Based on Cannon Design’s depth of experience in conceptualizing and designing integrated sport training centres that support high-performance athletics, Camosun College and PacificSport Victoria selected Cannon Design to design the Pacific Institute for Sport Excellence on Camosun College’s Interurban campus. The $36 million, 13,000 sm world-class facility, to include a triple gymnasium, sport medicine facilities, a sport science centre, fitness and wellness facilities, foodservice, a lighted outdoor artificial all-weather turf field, student and athlete housing, and a new trails system, will be home to a number of highly integrated programs encompassing sports, recreation, health, wellness, education, and sport- related research, as well as the Centre for Camosun Sport Education, offering sport leadership and coaching diploma, degree programs, and continuing-education courses. Serving athletes, the community, and Camosun staff and students, the Institute will also promote economic and social development in the Greater Victoria area, capitalizing on the growing markets of sport-related education and tourism. University of Connecticut, Student Union Camosun College, Pacific Institute for Sport Excellence NEW STUDENT UNION BUILDING AT THE UBC CAMPUS - EXPRESSION OF INTEREST 3 We believe the AMS’s desire to rebuild the Student Union Building will benefit from our firm’s experience designing student unions and campus life facilities, by our demonstrated success developing creative design solutions in partnership with our clients and stakeholders, and by our ability to embrace and respond to the UBC campus context. The attached qualifications focus on projects designed and executed by Cannon Design that may directly support your needs. The College and University practice within Cannon Design, led in western Canada by David Wilkinson, MAIBC and in the western US by Craig Hamilton, AIA, has completed many successful projects at college and university campuses throughout Canada and the US. Our Vancouver office has served almost every major institution in Canada, and has practiced with a particular emphasis on recreation. Our Los Angeles office has been at the forefront of student unions, student recreation centres and fusion buildings throughout the US. Together, we are offering a team of experts in this building type. Beginning with the University of California, Los Angeles, John Wooden Center more than 25 years ago, we have built a practice with a focused expertise in facilities that support student life on campus. Today we are in the unique position of designing student union, student recreation centres, and projects that combine aspects of both functions into “Fusion” facilities such as the recently-completed University of California, Davis, Activities and Recreation Center, led by Vancouver’s Marion LaRue, LEED ® AP. Cannon Design have been called upon to develop student life and recreation planning and programming for such institutions as: University of British Columbia Simon Fraser University University of Victoria University of Alberta University of Calgary Queen’s University McMaster University Wilfrid Laurier University University of Toronto United States Military Academy, West Point California State University, Northridge Los Angeles Valley College Loma Linda University California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo We know the contemporary issues involved in Campus Centre design as exemplified by our recent project work: George Brown College, Casa Loma Campus, Student Centre and Addition, Toronto, ON California State University, Dominguez Hills, Loker Student Union Expansion, Carson, CA University of California, San Diego, Price Center Expansion, LA JOLLA, CA State University of New York College at Oswego, Campus Center, Oswego, NY University of Lethbridge, 1st Choice Savings Centre for Sport and Wellness, Lethbridge, AB University of Maine, Student Recreation and Fitness Center, Orono, ME Nova Southeastern University, University Center, Ft. Lauderdale-Davie, FL You will see in our work a range of architectural expression, in each and every case a response to context, clients and campus values. Whether the iconic, modern expression of the University of California, San Diego, Price Center Expansion, the stately interpretation of Tuscan brick architecture at University of Southern California’s Parkside Residential College, or our work at the University of San Diego’s Jenny Craig Pavilion, each of our projects is a reflection of the campus upon which it is built. We recognize the importance of campus history, context and community in the planning and design of campus centres. We look forward to participating in the AMS’s new Student Union Building project and the chance to continue to work with a progressive student community that has such an unflinching vision. Project Exhibits The projects on the following pages represent five student services buildings undertaken by Cannon Design. A more comprehensive list of project exhibits can be found in the Appendices. University of California, Davis, Activities & Recreation Center NEW STUDENT UNION BUILDING AT THE UBC CAMPUS - EXPRESSION OF INTEREST 1 0 Our Understanding A Beacon of Student Life After many years of making do, the time has come for a new Student Union Building (SUB) at University of British Columbia (UBC). After intensive consultation with students, stakeholders, tenants and the broader campus community, feasibility studies, a funding referendum, programming workshops and a constant struggle for self-determination, the leadership of the Alma Mater Society (AMS) are moving forward with a transformational vision of sustainable leadership and a shrewd investment in future generations of students. The New SUB will be a beacon of student life on the UBC Vancouver campus. It will be the hub of activity for student social life, student commerce, student community and student leadership. The New SUB will vitalize a key site on the campus, soon to be the nexus of student transit and intense redevelopment. It will be an exemplar for how to build a sustainable future, and how to create a civil social organization. Showing the Past what the Future Can Be While certainly robust and expansive, the existing ‘bunker’ building has never truly reflected the spirit of the AMS or the student body, even in the late sixties. The original SUB was the result of a national architectural design competition, which seems to have lacked meaningful input from students, and seems to have been paternalistically dropped on students by their elders. In response to broad consultations with their student constituency, the AMS has identified the way forward. Successive recent AMS executives have shown courage by leading the SUB Renew/New SUB vision process, championing an innovative referendum and engaging in tough negotiations with the University. We have been impressed with the AMS’s firm commitment to a student-led vision: A faith in transparent, process-based decision-making A willingness to make the right choices for a sustainable future A vision of a flexible, transformational new SUB for the future As a leader in student life design in North America, Cannon Design has been helping the AMS articulate and map out this exciting future. We are proud of what has been accomplished so far, and we stand ready to faithfully guard your vision and enable you to meet your goals. Ave Maria University, Student Activity Center UBC Student Union Building, Concept Design NEW STUDENT UNION BUILDING AT THE UBC CAMPUS - EXPRESSION OF INTEREST 2 1 International Experience, Local Service Founded over sixty years ago, Cannon Design is today an international architectural, engineering, and planning firm with a staff of 800, ranked by volume in World Architecture’s 2007 global survey, as the 15th largest practice in the world. Recognized by over 250 awards for design excellence, technological innovation, and sustainable thought leadership, Cannon Design is known for performance and dedication to client service. The New SUB project will be serviced from the Vancouver office of Cannon Design, with support from other offices as resources are required to meet the Alma Mater Society’s needs. Our firm operates under a unique methodology, fully integrating the activities of offices in Vancouver, Victoria, Calgary, Toronto, Baltimore, Boston, Buffalo, Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, New York, Phoenix, St. Louis, San Francisco, Washington DC, Mumbai, and Shanghai, into a single unified firm without walls. This single-firm-multi- office philosophy, or SFMO™, enables clients worldwide consistent access to the full resources of the organization, irrespective of location. As such, the practice serves clients across North America, as well as Europe, the Middle East, India, and the Far East. Vancouver Office Address Firm’s Primary Contact 1500 West Georgia Street, Suite 710 David Wilkinson, MAIBC Vancouver, BC V6G 2Z6 M 604.506.6040 T 604.688.5710 [email protected] F 604.688.5702 Cannon Design is an employee-owned corporation and has been in continuous practice since 1945. The firm has experienced substantial growth marked by a widening range of service offerings in architecture, engineering, interior design and project delivery. We currently maintain 17 offices throughout Canada, the US and abroad. In 2007, revenues exceeded $122 million maintaining a ranking among the top two percent of design firms in North America. The firm has continued to invest funds generated by revenue growth in expanding operations. This investment has enabled Cannon Design to increase its investment in senior staff, advanced technology, software and training, as well as cultivate new markets throughout North America and abroad. Annual revenues for the past several years are shown below. Year Revenue 2007 $122,000,000 2006 $115,000,000 2005 $102,000,000 2004 $90,000,000 2003 $83,000,000 2002 $70,000,000 2001 $75,000,000 2000 $55,000,000 For further financial information, please refer to our 2007 Annual Report in the Appendices. 2 Extraordinary Experience in Student Life and Sustainable Design While providing superior education remains a paramount goal of today’s colleges and universities, those institutions that succeed in attracting the brightest and the best have discovered the importance that the quality of campus life plays in a student’s decision. As the AMS well knows, contemporary students are sophisticated, informed consumers who demand a well-rounded campus experience. Through thoughtful planning and design, we have demonstrated an ability to meet and exceed such high demands with award-winning projects throughout the continent. University of Connecticut, Student Union Canisius College, Delavan Housing NEW STUDENT UNION BUILDING AT THE UBC CAMPUS - EXPRESSION OF INTEREST 8 LEED ® Accreditation and Experience Building upon our historic commitment and leadership role in sustainable design, over 110 of our staff are LEED ® Accredited Professionals, with the number increasing every week. We are active in the US Green Building Council, the Canadian Green Building Council, Cascadia Green Building Council and in more than 30 other professional and technical associations dedicated to advancing state-of-the art principles and practices in the built environment. We endorse LEED ® as an excellent metric tool for evaluating the performance of our projects, but our overarching ambition is to achieve the highest possible levels of sustainability within the project budget regardless of the LEED ® credits achieved. Of course, by following this approach, the chance of achieving a high LEED ® score is strongly enhanced. Team Makeup The attitude and experience of our collaborating consultants is fundamental to success in achieving high performance sustainability, and therefore an important criterion for team selection. We will facilitate a thorough and realistic integrated design process with the active and well-coordinated involvement of: AMS leadership Student stakeholders Campus stakeholders AMS/SUB management SUB tenants Architects Engineering and environmental consultants Energy modeler Cost consultant Our approach and open attitude towards integrated sustainable design has been cited by sustainability consultant BuildGreen Consulting as an example for other design teams to follow. Methodology: BIM (Building Information Modelling) Cannon Design uses sophisticated design tools to produce the design and contract documents for all our projects. 3D modeling software is used from the earliest stages of design to help the team rapidly evaluate options and effectively communicate concepts to our clients and consultants. Google SketchUp is a favourite tool for the design phases, and its ease of use and free availability allows an opportunity for adventurous clients to explore the design model. Design geometry created in SketchUp is imported as a base into our primary design development and document production tool, Autodesk Revit. Widespread use of Revit on most of our complex projects allows us to work in virtual space and test the integration of all systems to minimize coordination conflicts, as well as continue to clearly communicate the design intent to our clients and team partners. Cannon Design is a major Revit beta test partner of Autodesk, and Cannon Design corporate support is provided to ensure that our teams’ skills are constantly expanding and that documents meet high standards for graphic and technical quality. Our software is regularly updated to the latest versions and training in new features is provided to our staff. Revit is also the platform for developing more detailed models by our energy modelling group. Revit geometry is imported into IES Virtual Environment for analysis of building energy, daylighting, and natural ventilation performance. Our Construction Services Group maintains a growing database of construction materials and costs, and uses the Revit model in conjunction with their cost modelling tools to rapidly extract quantities and develop cost estimates. Methodology: Team Resource Management One of the distinguishing characteristics of Cannon Design projects is rigorous fee and project management expertise. We use state-of the- art tools to achieve accountability such as Primavera P3 (scheduling), California State University, Dominguez Hills, Loker Student Union Expansion NEW STUDENT UNION BUILDING AT THE UBC CAMPUS - EXPRESSION OF INTEREST 9 Microsoft Project 2007 and Contract Manager 12 project management software. This rigorous approach allows us to integrate expertise and personnel resources wherever they are available within our firm through our SFMO TM (Single-Firm, Multi-Office) service structure. This versatility costs our Project Owners nothing, but it provides assurances of organization depth to address any project situation. Our team will be able to provide outstanding project management and control, delivering a better process and a better result through superior knowledge systems and organizational capacity. We can provide the AMS project team with access to up-to-the-minute status information about your ongoing project, and the confidence that a well-managed and well-partnered project brings. Methodology: Managing cost and leveraging value One of the most vital tools available to the design team is accurate cost information. Before we commence design, we benchmark similar facilities and review the functional program, brief and budget assumptions. Once the project budget is firmly established, we use our own internal cost resources in addition to the client’s costing reports to guide the project. Opportunities for balanced value diminish as a project progresses – 80% of the savings will occur in the first 20% of the design process. Once cost parameters are embedded in the design, strong management of the design and technical documentation processes create the best climate for a successful construction phase. Rigorous contract management and diligent field services optimize quality control and minimize costly changes. Methodology: How we get to “On Time/Under Budget”: Schedule Control We have a reputation for our ability to successfully meet the most challenging client schedules. We do so without sacrificing our overall focus – producing a quality product that meets or exceeds client expectations. To ensure schedule compliance, we focus on the following concepts: Maximize Client Involvement During Design: Decisions made early during the design phases have a critical impact on the project’s schedule. Client attention to early phase detail ensures that time is not lost by backtracking or in pursuit of inappropriate solutions. Critical Decision Milestones: Making timely critical decisions and securing necessary approval according to agreed milestones are essential. Decision timelines and commitments are reviewed and recorded at each project meeting. Multidisciplinary Teams: Large, multi-discipline teams require strong leadership and coordination. Our methodology and approach are team-based and include appropriate team performance monitoring and coaching mechanisms. Efficient Resource Use: Having the right and sufficient resources available to produce high quality work during all project phases is a critical success criterion. Our local project teams are supported by more than 800 skilled management, professional and technical personnel. Our project team members are selected for their ability to commit the time and effort needed to meet schedule demands. Budget Monitoring: Maintaining current and reliable cost information is critical to maintaining the project schedule. Knowing a project’s fiscal health during all phases is critical for client decision-making. Methodology: How we get to “On Time/Under Budget”: Design Management Appropriate and Responsible Design Direction: Our design direction is guided from the earliest conceptual phases by construction cost and building efficiency criteria to minimize the need for time- consuming and expensive value-analysis processes. Systems Focus in Design: Building systems which are right-sized, naturally appropriate, regionally produced, repetitive, widely available, and uniform will be given design preference over systems which are custom, made at a distance, variable in size and distribution. Materials Selection: Materials are specified to minimize first cost, delivery time and environmental impact while providing creative, durable and high performance outcomes. Preferred materials should be widely available locally, produced locally and be installable by local non-specialist crews. Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute Washington University School of Medicine, Eric P. Newman Education Center NEW STUDENT UNION BUILDING AT THE UBC CAMPUS - EXPRESSION OF INTEREST 10 Methodology: Budget control and design/cost interplay Our budget and cost control philosophy is based on being proactive, not reactive. It requires active participation and support by AMS and the entire design team. We believe in transparency and openness. Budget control concepts: Create fiscal reality early Generate multiple cost reports Review and validate cost reports Apply value analysis techniques early Produce quality tender documents Maintain rigorous on-site controls Cost control, when conscientiously applied, is one of the project team’s most helpful design tools and is one of the AMS’ best protections against surprises or unacceptable quality. Our project teams are typically supported either by our internal cost planning group or a local cost consultant under contract to us. Having cost estimating and control integrated under our direction allows us to obtain cost feedback early enough in each stage of the design process to effectively adjust the design and specification to get to a buildable and affordable solution in the least frustrating and most timely manner. Methodology: Integrated Value Analysis Value analysis is one of our important design tools. Our approach helps the project maintain important programmatic and aesthetic qualities, maximize investment value, and minimize construction, operational and maintenance costs. Value analysis as practiced by Cannon Design is more than a means to cut costs. Our integrated value analysis process will assist the AMS in proactively making wise expenditure decisions based on value and will help avoid late-stage redesign to solve budgetary challenges. Our value analysis process includes: Functional Analysis: During preliminary design, the focus is on functional analysis of the proposed building elements – the determination of the intent and function of a material, system, service or design. System synergies and life cycle cost issues are considered. Brainstorming: Once the purpose and function is understood, input from all project team members is sought, beginning a flow of ideas on possible options leading to the preferred solution. These ideas are augmented with information obtained from our internal databases, contractors, suppliers and other specialists. The integrated design process continues to evaluate design approaches for synergy and life cycle cost implications. Feasibility Analysis: The options developed during brainstorming are scrutinized in a process of feasibility analysis. This process, with input from all project team members, determines a proposed solution’s ability to meet the project’s needs, budget and design intent. Value Analysis: Concepts that survive the feasibility analysis are tested to establish first cost and operating/maintenance (life cycle) cost and a ‘should cost’ study based on past experience with similar materials or systems. This process gives the client the ability to make informed decisions regarding the most appropriate and economical materials, systems, services and designs. Methodology: Quality Assurance and Quality Control Project quality is built on strong design and technical coordination. At Cannon Design, this is an area with dedicated leadership and a refined set of controls and procedures. This leadership is provided by a team of designated Quality Leaders in place throughout our regional network. Quality Leaders support project teams and serve as visionaries for the continuous improvement that distinguishes Cannon Design’s culture of quality and innovation. Cannon Design understands that delivering quality is the responsibility of each team member. UBC Student Union Building, Concept Design 11 NEW STUDENT UNION BUILDING AT THE UBC CAMPUS - EXPRESSION OF INTEREST In-house Peer Reviewers are a group of experienced professionals that provide oversight and guidance to the project team and lead a series of independent multidisciplinary peer reviews that will occur at key schedule milestones in the development of the project. This system of quality checks and balances augments and parallels the team’s separate responsibility to monitor and manage quality, and provides an effective dynamic to ultimately deliver a project that meets Client goals and expectations. 4 Our Team Our Team: A project-centric approach Instead of the common top-down hierarchical organization we prefer instead to establish a more horizontal and collegial team approach. Four senior individuals will take responsibility for specific essential parallel leadership portfolios and management functions of the project. Principal-in-Charge Marion E. LaRue LEED ® AP, Principal Overall responsibility for quality of our firm’s service to the AMS. Project Manager David Wilkinson MAIBC MRAIC, Associate Principal Day-to-day resource and team management, primary client contact for contracts, business and performance accountability. Workshop co-facilitator. Design Principal Andrew King MRAIC, Design Principal Overall responsibility for architectural design and urban design. Project Architect Christopher Rowe MAIBC MRAIC LEED ® AP, Vice President Design leadership and coordination of the integrated design team, primary client contact for design and workshop co- facilitation. Specialist Architect Brad Lukanic AIA LEED ® AP, Principal Student life project specialist, design forum leader, planner. As all five of these individuals have extensive design and delivery experience with related projects, they will collaborate across their areas of expertise throughout the development of the project and work closely with the rest of the design and production team. All five are committed for the duration of the project, through 2014. To ensure further project continuity, each role is backed up by at least one other role in case of emergency. Thus the Principal in Charge backs up the Project Director, who backs up the Project Architect who backs up the Design Principal. The level of involvement that each professional provides during the period rises and falls by phase, but the AMS commitment trumps all other demands for the committed period. Project Team: Cannon Design expert faculty The following subject-matter experts will join us during our design workshops. All are seasoned experts that will stimulate high-level thinking amongst session participants, and help foster powerful yet achievable concepts: Patricia Roy ARIDO Student Interiors and Retail Toronto David Hewko M. Arch Process & Program Vancouver Craig Hamilton AIA Student Union Buildings Los Angeles Stephen Johnson AIA, Principal Student Life Buildings Mehrdad Yazdani, Design Principal Student Life Design Los Angeles Helen Pang MAIBC, LEED ® AP Senior Design Architect Vancouver John Swift PE LEED ® AP Sustainable Engineering Boston Matthias Schuler Dipl Ing Living Buildings Stuttgart Freda Pagani MAIBC Campus Sustainability Vancouver We firmly believe that the New SUB project will also benefit from contributions from the many students and faculty on campus who has their own disciplinary expertise and curiosity. Our extended-faculty approach allows us to better engage and harness this kind of community contribution. Our expert faculty will act as advocates for their specific areas of knowledge, and will model great integrated design behavior. Cannon Design, Leadership NEW STUDENT UNION BUILDING AT THE UBC CAMPUS - EXPRESSION OF INTEREST 12 Project Team: Daylighting design support by the Cannon Design Lighting Studio Julie Donovan, LC Darryl Mensinger, LC Sara Schonour, LC, LEED ® AP Raymon Soto, LC, LEED ® AP Our award-winning Lighting Studio offers full lighting design capabilities including interior and exterior lighting, control strategies, daylighting and daylight harvesting, and energy modeling. The team designs holistically, with special sensitivity to aesthetic, energy efficiency, sustainability issues, maintenance concerns, and seamless integration with building goals. The group has worked on multiple projects seeking varying levels of LEED ® certification in the past 12 months. The group works regularly with Cannon Design’s Vancouver office – collaborating with colleagues in our Shanghai office using Revit BIM and IES Virtual Environment software to simulate and calculate criteria necessary to demonstrate LEED ® daylighting compliance. The Cannon Design lighting studio will support the electrical engineering team with specific involvement in daylighting simulation and design recommendations, as well as bridge between the architectural design team and the electrical design team with contributions to lighting concepts and fixture selection. 5 An Integrated Project Team Familiar to the AMS/UBC Community How can your architects make sure that the New SUB project is an effective, efficient high-performer? By choosing an integrated design team with the best interests of the project in mind. Cannon Design’s proposed specialists are selected for their proven capabilities in the UBC campus environment, their history with us on other projects, or their direct relevance to the New SUB project. Some of our choices are currently involved with UBC’s University Boulevard/University Square initiative in a way that we believe makes them useful to the New SUB team*. IDP Chair Cannon Design Christopher Rowe, MAIBC, LEED ® AP Structural* Read Jones Christoffersen Jeff Corbett, P.Eng Mechanical The AME Group Ltd. Harold Stewart, P.Eng, LEED ® AP Electrical Applied Engineering Solutions Met Ulker, P.Eng, LEED ® AP Civil* Aplin+Martin Consultants Andrew Baker, P.Eng Landscape* Phillips Farevaag Smallenberg Chris Phillips, BCSLA, FCSLA Sustainability/LEED ® Cannon Design Jennifer Melnyk, LEED ® AP Code/Life Safety LMDG Building Code Consultants Geoff Triggs Interiors Cannon Design Interiors Group Patricia Roy, ARIDO Food Service Lisa Bell + Associates Lisa Bell Envelope Morrison Hershfield Pierre Gallant, MAIBC Cost BTY Group Toby Mallinder, PQS Lighting/Daylighting Cannon Lighting Design Group Sara Schonour, LC, LEED ® AP Climate Engineering TRANSSOLAR Klima Energietechnik Matthias Schuler *currently constrained from participation, but available to AMS once MoU terms agreed by both parties. Should this not be forthcoming, we will propose alternate consultants for these disciplines. Please refer to the Appendices for further information on our team members. Cannon Design, Design Forum Cannon Design, Studio NEW STUDENT UNION BUILDING AT THE UBC CAMPUS - EXPRESSION OF INTEREST 6 3 An Ideas-Based Practice Thriving in the Real World Methodology: Clients Are Our Most Important Partners The people of Cannon Design are committed to working with our clients in a collaborative partnering manner. We abide by our established guiding principles in all our professional work. We seek to align ourselves with our client’s goals and deliver services that consistently meet their quality, schedule and cost objectives. We commit ourselves to a process of continuous quality improvement, using the power of our imagination, knowledge, and experience to contribute to our clients’ success. Our mission is to design buildings and places that promote productivity, enhance quality of life, minimize negative environmental impact, and contribute positively to an enduring cityscape. A guiding principle of Cannon Design is that each project reflects the spirit and personality of its owner. We believe that by listening hard to our clients and responding thoughtfully and creatively, good design becomes great design. We are very proud to have been associated with the SUB Renewal project up to now and to have made a contribution to the success of the AMS’s SUB Renewal fee referendum. Our work with the AMS and UBC students has been intellectually stimulating and rewarding and we know that the next phase of project development will be even more exciting. Methodology: Inclusivity and interactivity Our approach is intended to foster a close and creative working relationship between all members of the project team, especially the AMS and the wider student community. We seek to ensure that all stakeholders are heard and that all viewpoints are considered. Building on our existing knowledge of the project and our relationships with the AMS and students, we will work with you from the outset to establish an approach and schedule tailored to the unique characteristics of the New SUB project and its many stakeholders. We will work with you towards a deep understanding of the New SUB’s potential, beginning with fundamentals: What are the needs and priorities of modern students? What is the nature of student culture at UBC? What is the role of the university in the community? What are the emerging trends in society and the economy? How will these trends influence the form, character, and patterns of use of the facility over its long lifespan? Social goals – contribution to campus interaction, inclusivity, vitality and lifestyle. Support for food, commerce, entertainment and the arts. Consideration of recreation and expression of spiritual/ religious tolerance. Design goals – future-proof, enduring character, flexibility, truly student image, and compelling experiential qualities Urban design goals – public place-making and pathways inside and out, enriched natural and urban space and connecting commuters with the campus. Sustainability goals – leadership targets for environmental, food security and economic sustainability of the New SUB, and ensuring that the ‘old’ SUB is responsibly dealt with. Cost goals – delivering best value within the limits of available funding. Balanced approach to size, durability, environmental goals. Understanding the operational costs of the future created by the capital expenditures of today. Cannon Design will organize workshops and charettes to address all aspects of the design, from the basics – form, character and basic planning – to more detailed development. Inclusive, intensive design sessions will connect design professionals with users, operators, authorities and managers to brainstorm ideal solutions. Ideas will be assembled, documented, assessed and presented for consideration by the project leadership. All stakeholders will be able to have an input into the design and take some personal ownership of the design direction. California State University, Dominguez Hills, Loker Student Union Expansion NEW STUDENT UNION BUILDING AT THE UBC CAMPUS - EXPRESSION OF INTEREST 7 Our design forum methodology will be familiar to those who participated in our exploration of SUB design options in November 2007. Cannon Design gathered designers from many of our offices across North America to work with AMS representatives and UBC students over three intense days. Six multidisciplinary teams each developed a unique design approach reimagining the existing SUB building. More than just a team-building exercise, this design forum supplied a supercharged burst of creativity focused on a range of priorities, with the design responses providing a tangible foundation for serious consideration and debate. Continuing design work is documented in an interim schematic design report, with a concept-level cost estimate. When the schematic design is complete a final Schematic Design Report documents the design in full, with estimated costs, as a basis for design development of the project. Vision: Going beyond sustainability During our previous work with the AMS we learned about students’ expectations that their project demonstrate exceptional leadership in design for sustainability. We know this means a lot more than just attaining LEED ® Platinum certification. We know this means that merely being ‘sustainable’ may not be enough – the new SUB building itself must go on to make a dramatically positive contribution to the environment as a regenerative building. It must be future-proofed in a way that allows it to continually accept new technologies and evolve towards increasingly higher performance, whether that be through water harvesting and reuse, energy production, GHG reduction, oxygenation, urban agriculture, or the support of vital new social patterns and ways of student life. Vision: Thinking about the future Other than not building anything, the most sustainable approach is to build for the ages. A university building should be expected to have a lifespan of at least 100 years, if not more. The pace of social and technological change is fierce, and no designer could begin to anticipate exactly how the building might be used in the distant future. Even 10 years into the future, students might not recognize the way New SUB is used. One way to accommodate this flux is to think of the building as a framework or armature that can easily adapt to new patterns of use and have new technologies inserted into its fabric. This has to be allowed without major disruption or massive expense – in fact, the building’s design should even encourage change. Methodology: Integrated Design Process Achieving the goal of a design solution that is environmentally sound, highly efficient, and aesthetically superior, without increasing capital costs (over conventional design solutions), and with reduced long-term operating and maintenance costs requires much more than a conventional design and consultant coordination approach. A disciplined and methodical process is needed. The interplay of the building’s engineered systems and its physical environment will be carefully examined and simulated with the latest modelling tools. Alternative solutions will be evaluated for their efficiency and the design refined to obtain the highest possible performance. The complete integration of all design disciplines and program demands is our way to achieve the highest design quality and most remarkable aesthetics, not an impediment that stunts creativity. We base our process on that recommended by the IISBE (International Initiative for a Sustainable Built Environment), which in turn is based on NRCan’s C-2000 process. The Roadmap for the Integrated Design Process is an exceptionally clear checklist for this process. This systematic process is based on seeking input and advice from the broadest consultant team possible at the earliest stages of design, when there is the greatest possible chance to influence the cost-effective performance of the project. Ongoing simulation, cost verification, and team review is then used to objectively evaluate the performance of proposed design strategies. It is a truism that a project can achieve only two of the three targets of being green, costing less, and completed fast – it will be important to find the right balance and ensure that there is opportunity in the design process to thoroughly evaluate the outcomes of each design option and decision. The interdisciplinary team contributes to synergies in the entire project through the functional program, the integration of the structural system, and the architectural harmony of the solution. University of Western Ontario, Elgin Hall Student Residence FACTOID: In the mid-sixties, the AMS and the University worked out a great way to choose their new building... an anonymous architectural competition! Under the close supervision of a blue-ribbon committee of architectural judges they chose a design that was mailed in from… wait for it... WINNIPEG! The guy on the right is the AMS president of the day, Roger McAfee. He is being soothed and whispered to by an ‘expert elder’ . A 1969 Canadian Architect magazine review of the completed building said the following: “Instead of a ‘free-thought’ structure which might have offered an open-ended solution for future change – a solution which would breathe with the times and expand and contract with ease, the building is a statement of nality... The building seems more a symbol of containment than freedom.” …that was 1969! this is crowd-sourced architecture head senses nervous system lungs heart gut pleasure centre building a legacy means building an emotional connection to a place, not a thing in-house daylighting design in-house energy modeling in-house sustainability engineering skilled facilitators in-house cost control and estimating blank-slate design processes inclusive design workshops quadruple bottom-line sustainability thinking international experience, local roots lots of knowledge, lots of experience, beginner’s mind it’s an organism 100 years of memories start here Twitter: @cannondesign Facebook: cannon-design YouTube: search for Cannon Design www.thethirdteacher.com www.cannondesign.com Knowledge is the most democratic form of power Alvin Toffler a social organism can you make a sustainable way of life ‘viral’? what makes a place worth fighting for? does “The Future” exist anymore? what’s important to you? what’s trivial? what are you willing to do? we’ll have we’ll need to ask ourselves eat drink club hang out hook up volunteer make out work out study hard hide game listen refresh think govern buy argue meet perform talk sing sleep celebrate protest a place to our most recent student life place: Price Center, UC San Diego our most recent student life place: Price Center, UC San Diego Vancouver Vancouver Vancouver Vancouver Vancouver Vancouver Stuttgart New York Los Angeles Los Angeles Boston Los Angeles Toronto David Hewko Listener Planner Knower Creator Asker Vancouver

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MarionLaRue

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DavidWilkinson

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How is a building like a body?45,000 clients - all unique

building your SUB is about process, not geniusIn the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities. In the expert’s mind there are few.

Shunryu Suzuki

It’s not enough to just be ‘sustainable’ net zero = stasis the new sub needs to be regenerative

Buildings learn, communicate, get sick, get healthy, grow things, nurture, change, get old, have memories

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4 California State University, Dominguez Hills, Loker Student Union ExpansionCarson, California

When California State University, Dominguez Hills determined that the Donald P. and Katherine B. Loker University Student Union needed to be updated and expanded to accommodate the increasing requirements of its student body, it turned to Cannon Design. The building, located at the heart of the campus, is the centre and soul of campus life. Innovative in design and function, the new facility includes a variety of spaces supporting the latest trends in student unions, activity, and recreation.

The expansion project entailed a 65,650 sf renovation of the existing building and a 71,350 sf addition to the north. A multilevel courtyard simultaneously separates and connects the two buildings and provides a common area for students and faculty. The addition, which doubled available program space, provides a fresh, inviting, and open atmosphere and incorporates numerous sustainable design features. More than 50% of existing mechanical, electrical, and plumbing infrastructure, including ducting, piping, conduit and cabling, panels, and controls were reused.

The expanded student union contains a variety of student lounge areas to meet student demand for social, interactive space, as well as the student bookstore and other retail outlets, student-services support space, administrative office space, a full production kitchen, and indoor and outdoor dining areas.

University of California, San Diego, Price Center ExpansionLa Jolla, California

The plan of the University of California at San Diego’s existing student centre, the Price Center, was developed with an “introverted” configuration - a central courtyard bordered on three sides by all of the building’s program elements facing inward - that established a powerful sense of place and a hub for dining, socializing, and events. When the university’s growth necessitated an expansion of the Price Center, Cannon Design’s solution was to create an “extroverted,” highly permeable addition offering many points of entry and features such as plazas and monumental staircases that engage the building’s surroundings and enrich the street experience.

The 172,000 sf addition expands the bookstore and the space available for retail, foodservice, and student organizations and reinforces the primary pedestrian circulation paths linking the sides of campus. In response to the gradual slope of the site, the addition has two “ground floors,” as does the original Price Center, enhancing the accessibility of both the existing facility and the expansion and maximizing revenue from and synergy among retail and foodservice outlets, all located at grade.

Consistent with the planning goals of the UCSD Master Plan and the University Center Design Guidelines, the addition’s architectural character and multiple points of entry aid the transformation of the surrounding University Center neighborhood into a “town centre”: a lively, dense, pedestrian-oriented area with a distinctive urban quality, serving as hub for many different activities and the heart of the campus. In support of the university’s goal of achieving the equivalent of a LEED® Silver rating, the project incorporates a number of sustainable design elements.

University of California, Berkeley, Student Services Building and Dining FacilityBerkeley, California

Comprising 90,000 sf, the new student services building consolidates facilities that were once dispersed about the campus. The new dining commons combines and replaces two existing dining halls that subsequently were demolished. The marche-style servery offers several “platforms” with a variety of menu choices. Using a sustainable approach, the design maximizes daylight and minimizes the use of “applied” decoration. Polished concrete floors, plaster walls, and creative acoustical ceilings establish a simple look that is durable and easy to maintain.

California State University, Dominguez Hills, Loker Student Union Expansion

University of California, San Diego, Price Center Expansion

University of California, Berkeley, Student Services Building and Dining Facility

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5Located across from the historic shingle-style Anna Head School and near the famous Christian Science Church by architect Bernard Maybeck, this new building balances the university’s desire for a contemporary student services facility with the need to be responsive and visually appropriate to the urban neighborhood context.

University of Connecticut, Student UnionStorrs, Connecticut

Cannon Design provided programming and architectural design for a 207,750 sf student union to create a new centre of campus life at the University of Connecticut, establishing a connection between central campus activity and the university’s athletics area, including Gampel Arena and the student recreation centre. The student union defines one corner of a major campus quadrangle, reinforcing the quad’s spatial identity and strengthening the new campus pedestrian street to the south. It includes a food court, a ballroom, a 508-seat multiuse theater, multiuse function rooms, conference rooms, expanded offices for student government and student-life organizations, multicultural centres, student lounges, and the campus community post office.

The project combines the renovation of a 1950s-era building with more than 152,500 sf of new construction. By locating the addition primarily on the quad side of an existing building, designers addressed the quad with a modern, open appearance while preserving portions of the original facade flanking the outer streetscape. A four-story pedestrian spine follows the building’s north-south axis, uniting various functions with an interior streetscape. Major building entries occur at student activity centres: the theater, lounges, dining area, and ballroom.

Camosun College, Pacific Institute for Sport ExcellenceVictoria, British Columbia

Based on Cannon Design’s depth of experience in conceptualizing and designing integrated sport training centres that support high-performance athletics, Camosun College and PacificSport Victoria selected Cannon Design to design the Pacific Institute for Sport Excellence on Camosun College’s Interurban campus. The $36 million, 13,000 sm world-class facility, to include a triple gymnasium, sport medicine facilities, a sport science centre, fitness and wellness facilities, foodservice, a lighted outdoor artificial all-weather turf field, student and athlete housing, and a new trails system, will be home to a number of highly integrated programs encompassing sports, recreation, health, wellness, education, and sport-related research, as well as the Centre for Camosun Sport Education, offering sport leadership and coaching diploma, degree programs, and continuing-education courses. Serving athletes, the community, and Camosun staff and students, the Institute will also promote economic and social development in the Greater Victoria area, capitalizing on the growing markets of sport-related education and tourism.

University of Connecticut, Student Union

Camosun College, Pacific Institute for Sport Excellence

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3We believe the AMS’s desire to rebuild the Student Union Building will benefit from our firm’s experience designing student unions and campus life facilities, by our demonstrated success developing creative design solutions in partnership with our clients and stakeholders, and by our ability to embrace and respond to the UBC campus context. The attached qualifications focus on projects designed and executed by Cannon Design that may directly support your needs.

The College and University practice within Cannon Design, led in western Canada by David Wilkinson, MAIBC and in the western US by Craig Hamilton, AIA, has completed many successful projects at college and university campuses throughout Canada and the US. Our Vancouver office has served almost every major institution in Canada, and has practiced with a particular emphasis on recreation. Our Los Angeles office has been at the forefront of student unions, student recreation centres and fusion buildings throughout the US. Together, we are offering a team of experts in this building type.

Beginning with the University of California, Los Angeles, John Wooden Center more than 25 years ago, we have built a practice with a focused expertise in facilities that support student life on campus. Today we are in the unique position of designing student union, student recreation centres, and projects that combine aspects of both functions into “Fusion” facilities such as the recently-completed University of California, Davis, Activities and Recreation Center, led by Vancouver’s Marion LaRue, LEED® AP.

Cannon Design have been called upon to develop student life and recreation planning and programming for such institutions as:

 University of British Columbia  Simon Fraser University  University of Victoria  University of Alberta  University of Calgary  Queen’s University  McMaster University  Wilfrid Laurier University  University of Toronto  United States Military Academy, West Point  California State University, Northridge  Los Angeles Valley College  Loma Linda University  California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

We know the contemporary issues involved in Campus Centre design as exemplified by our recent project work:

 George Brown College, Casa Loma Campus, Student Centre and Addition, Toronto, ON  California State University, Dominguez Hills, Loker Student Union Expansion, Carson, CA  University of California, San Diego, Price Center Expansion, LA JOLLA, CA  State University of New York College at Oswego, Campus Center, Oswego, NY

University of Lethbridge, 1st Choice Savings Centre for Sport and Wellness, Lethbridge, AB  University of Maine, Student Recreation and Fitness Center, Orono, ME Nova Southeastern University, University Center, Ft. Lauderdale-Davie, FL

You will see in our work a range of architectural expression, in each and every case a response to context, clients and campus values. Whether the iconic, modern expression of the University of California, San Diego, Price Center Expansion, the stately interpretation of Tuscan brick architecture at University of Southern California’s Parkside Residential College, or our work at the University of San Diego’s Jenny Craig Pavilion, each of our projects is a reflection of the campus upon which it is built. We recognize the importance of campus history, context and community in the planning and design of campus centres. We look forward to participating in the AMS’s new Student Union Building project and the chance to continue to work with a progressive student community that has such an unflinching vision.

Project Exhibits

The projects on the following pages represent five student services buildings undertaken by Cannon Design. A more comprehensive list of project exhibits can be found in the Appendices.

University of California, Davis, Activities & Recreation Center

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10 Our Understanding

A Beacon of Student Life

After many years of making do, the time has come for a new Student Union Building (SUB) at University of British Columbia (UBC).

After intensive consultation with students, stakeholders, tenants and the broader campus community, feasibility studies, a funding referendum, programming workshops and a constant struggle for self-determination, the leadership of the Alma Mater Society (AMS) are moving forward with a transformational vision of sustainable leadership and a shrewd investment in future generations of students.

The New SUB will be a beacon of student life on the UBC Vancouver campus. It will be the hub of activity for student social life, student commerce, student community and student leadership. The New SUB will vitalize a key site on the campus, soon to be the nexus of student transit and intense redevelopment. It will be an exemplar for how to build a sustainable future, and how to create a civil social organization.

Showing the Past what the Future Can Be

While certainly robust and expansive, the existing ‘bunker’ building has never truly reflected the spirit of the AMS or the student body, even in the late sixties. The original SUB was the result of a national architectural design competition, which seems to have lacked meaningful input from students, and seems to have been paternalistically dropped on students by their elders.

In response to broad consultations with their student constituency, the AMS has identified the way forward. Successive recent AMS executives have shown courage by leading the SUB Renew/New SUB vision process, championing an innovative referendum and engaging in tough negotiations with the University. We have been impressed with the AMS’s firm commitment to a student-led vision:

 A faith in transparent, process-based decision-making  A willingness to make the right choices for a sustainable future  A vision of a flexible, transformational new SUB for the future

As a leader in student life design in North America, Cannon Design has been helping the AMS articulate and map out this exciting future. We are proud of what has been accomplished so far, and we stand ready to faithfully guard your vision and enable you to meet your goals.

Ave Maria University, Student Activity Center

UBC Student Union Building, Concept Design

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2 1 International Experience, Local Service

Founded over sixty years ago, Cannon Design is today an international architectural, engineering, and planning firm with a staff of 800, ranked by volume in World Architecture’s 2007 global survey, as the 15th largest practice in the world. Recognized by over 250 awards for design excellence, technological innovation, and sustainable thought leadership, Cannon Design is known for performance and dedication to client service.

The New SUB project will be serviced from the Vancouver office of Cannon Design, with support from other offices as resources are required to meet the Alma Mater Society’s needs. Our firm operates under a unique methodology, fully integrating the activities of offices in Vancouver, Victoria, Calgary, Toronto, Baltimore, Boston, Buffalo, Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, New York, Phoenix, St. Louis, San Francisco, Washington DC, Mumbai, and Shanghai, into a single unified firm without walls. This single-firm-multi-office philosophy, or SFMO™, enables clients worldwide consistent access to the full resources of the organization, irrespective of location. As such, the practice serves clients across North America, as well as Europe, the Middle East, India, and the Far East.

Vancouver Office Address Firm’s Primary Contact 1500 West Georgia Street, Suite 710 David Wilkinson, MAIBC Vancouver, BC V6G 2Z6 M 604.506.6040 T 604.688.5710 [email protected] F 604.688.5702

Cannon Design is an employee-owned corporation and has been in continuous practice since 1945. The firm has experienced substantial growth marked by a widening range of service offerings in architecture, engineering, interior design and project delivery. We currently maintain 17 offices throughout Canada, the US and abroad.

In 2007, revenues exceeded $122 million maintaining a ranking among the top two percent of design firms in North America. The firm has continued to invest funds generated by revenue growth in expanding operations. This investment has enabled Cannon Design to increase its investment in senior staff, advanced technology, software and training, as well as cultivate new markets throughout North America and abroad. Annual revenues for the past several years are shown below.

Year Revenue2007 $122,000,000 2006 $115,000,0002005 $102,000,0002004 $90,000,0002003 $83,000,0002002 $70,000,0002001 $75,000,0002000 $55,000,000

For further financial information, please refer to our 2007 Annual Report in the Appendices.

2 Extraordinary Experience in Student Life and Sustainable Design

While providing superior education remains a paramount goal of today’s colleges and universities, those institutions that succeed in attracting the brightest and the best have discovered the importance that the quality of campus life plays in a student’s decision. As the AMS well knows, contemporary students are sophisticated, informed consumers who demand a well-rounded campus experience. Through thoughtful planning and design, we have demonstrated an ability to meet and exceed such high demands with award-winning projects throughout the continent.

University of Connecticut, Student Union

Canisius College, Delavan Housing

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8 LEED® Accreditation and Experience

Building upon our historic commitment and leadership role in sustainable design, over 110 of our staff are LEED® Accredited Professionals, with the number increasing every week. We are active in the US Green Building Council, the Canadian Green Building Council, Cascadia Green Building Council and in more than 30 other professional and technical associations dedicated to advancing state-of-the art principles and practices in the built environment.

We endorse LEED® as an excellent metric tool for evaluating the performance of our projects, but our overarching ambition is to achieve the highest possible levels of sustainability within the project budget regardless of the LEED® credits achieved. Of course, by following this approach, the chance of achieving a high LEED® score is strongly enhanced.

Team Makeup

The attitude and experience of our collaborating consultants is fundamental to success in achieving high performance sustainability, and therefore an important criterion for team selection. We will facilitate a thorough and realistic integrated design process with the active and well-coordinated involvement of:

 AMS leadership  Student stakeholders  Campus stakeholders  AMS/SUB management  SUB tenants  Architects  Engineering and environmental consultants  Energy modeler  Cost consultant

Our approach and open attitude towards integrated sustainable design has been cited by sustainability consultant BuildGreen Consulting as an example for other design teams to follow.

Methodology: BIM (Building Information Modelling)

Cannon Design uses sophisticated design tools to produce the design and contract documents for all our projects. 3D modeling software is used from the earliest stages of design to help the team rapidly evaluate options and effectively communicate concepts to our clients and consultants.

Google SketchUp is a favourite tool for the design phases, and its ease of use and free availability allows an opportunity for adventurous clients to explore the design model. Design geometry created in SketchUp is imported as a base into our primary design development and document production tool, Autodesk Revit. Widespread use of Revit on most of our complex projects allows us to work in virtual space and test the integration of all systems to minimize coordination conflicts, as well as continue to clearly communicate the design intent to our clients and team partners.

Cannon Design is a major Revit beta test partner of Autodesk, and Cannon Design corporate support is provided to ensure that our teams’ skills are constantly expanding and that documents meet high standards for graphic and technical quality. Our software is regularly updated to the latest versions and training in new features is provided to our staff. Revit is also the platform for developing more detailed models by our energy modelling group. Revit geometry is imported into IES Virtual Environment for analysis of building energy, daylighting, and natural ventilation performance. Our Construction Services Group maintains a growing database of construction materials and costs, and uses the Revit model in conjunction with their cost modelling tools to rapidly extract quantities and develop cost estimates.

Methodology: Team Resource Management

One of the distinguishing characteristics of Cannon Design projects is rigorous fee and project management expertise. We use state-of the- art tools to achieve accountability such as Primavera P3 (scheduling),

California State University, Dominguez Hills, Loker Student Union Expansion

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9Microsoft Project 2007 and Contract Manager 12 project management software. This rigorous approach allows us to integrate expertise and personnel resources wherever they are available within our firm through our SFMOTM (Single-Firm, Multi-Office) service structure. This versatility costs our Project Owners nothing, but it provides assurances of organization depth to address any project situation. Our team will be able to provide outstanding project management and control, delivering a better process and a better result through superior knowledge systems and organizational capacity. We can provide the AMS project team with access to up-to-the-minute status information about your ongoing project, and the confidence that a well-managed and well-partnered project brings.

Methodology: Managing cost and leveraging value

One of the most vital tools available to the design team is accurate cost information. Before we commence design, we benchmark similar facilities and review the functional program, brief and budget assumptions. Once the project budget is firmly established, we use our own internal cost resources in addition to the client’s costing reports to guide the project. Opportunities for balanced value diminish as a project progresses – 80% of the savings will occur in the first 20% of the design process. Once cost parameters are embedded in the design, strong management of the design and technical documentation processes create the best climate for a successful construction phase. Rigorous contract management and diligent field services optimize quality control and minimize costly changes.

Methodology: How we get to “On Time/Under Budget”: Schedule Control

We have a reputation for our ability to successfully meet the most challenging client schedules. We do so without sacrificing our overall focus – producing a quality product that meets or exceeds client expectations. To ensure schedule compliance, we focus on the following concepts:

 Maximize Client Involvement During Design: Decisions made early during the design phases have a critical impact on the project’s schedule. Client attention to early phase detail ensures that time is not lost by backtracking or in pursuit of inappropriate solutions.  Critical Decision Milestones: Making timely critical decisions and securing necessary approval according to agreed milestones are essential. Decision timelines and commitments are reviewed and recorded at each project meeting.  Multidisciplinary Teams: Large, multi-discipline teams require strong leadership and coordination. Our methodology and approach are team-based and include appropriate team performance monitoring and coaching mechanisms.  Efficient Resource Use: Having the right and sufficient resources available to produce high quality work during all project phases is a critical success criterion. Our local project teams are supported by more than 800 skilled management, professional and technical personnel. Our project team members are selected for their ability to commit the time and effort needed to meet schedule demands.  Budget Monitoring: Maintaining current and reliable cost information is critical to maintaining the project schedule. Knowing a project’s fiscal health during all phases is critical for client decision-making.

Methodology: How we get to “On Time/Under Budget”: Design Management

 Appropriate and Responsible Design Direction: Our design direction is guided from the earliest conceptual phases by construction cost and building efficiency criteria to minimize the need for time-consuming and expensive value-analysis processes.  Systems Focus in Design: Building systems which are right-sized, naturally appropriate, regionally produced, repetitive, widely available, and uniform will be given design preference over systems which are custom, made at a distance, variable in size and distribution.  Materials Selection: Materials are specified to minimize first cost, delivery time and environmental impact while providing creative, durable and high performance outcomes. Preferred materials should be widely available locally, produced locally and be installable by local non-specialist crews.

Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute

Washington University School of Medicine, Eric P. Newman Education Center

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10 Methodology: Budget control and design/cost interplay

Our budget and cost control philosophy is based on being proactive, not reactive. It requires active participation and support by AMS and the entire design team. We believe in transparency and openness. Budget control concepts:

Create fiscal reality early Generate multiple cost reports Review and validate cost reports Apply value analysis techniques early Produce quality tender documentsMaintain rigorous on-site controls

Cost control, when conscientiously applied, is one of the project team’s most helpful design tools and is one of the AMS’ best protections against surprises or unacceptable quality. Our project teams are typically supported either by our internal cost planning group or a local cost consultant under contract to us. Having cost estimating and control integrated under our direction allows us to obtain cost feedback early enough in each stage of the design process to effectively adjust the design and specification to get to a buildable and affordable solution in the least frustrating and most timely manner.

Methodology: Integrated Value Analysis

Value analysis is one of our important design tools. Our approach helps the project maintain important programmatic and aesthetic qualities, maximize investment value, and minimize construction, operational and maintenance costs. Value analysis as practiced by Cannon Design is more than a means to cut costs. Our integrated value analysis process will assist the AMS in proactively making wise expenditure decisions based on value and will help avoid late-stage redesign to solve budgetary challenges. Our value analysis process includes:

 Functional Analysis: During preliminary design, the focus is on functional analysis of the proposed building elements – the determination of the intent and function of a material, system, service or design. System synergies and life cycle cost issues are considered.  Brainstorming: Once the purpose and function is understood, input from all project team members is sought, beginning a flow of ideas on possible options leading to the preferred solution. These ideas are augmented with information obtained from our internal databases, contractors, suppliers and other specialists. The integrated design process continues to evaluate design approaches for synergy and life cycle cost implications.  Feasibility Analysis: The options developed during brainstorming are scrutinized in a process of feasibility analysis. This process, with input from all project team members, determines a proposed solution’s ability to meet the project’s needs, budget and design intent. Value Analysis: Concepts that survive the feasibility analysis are tested to establish first cost and operating/maintenance (life cycle) cost and a ‘should cost’ study based on past experience with similar materials or systems. This process gives the client the ability to make informed decisions regarding the most appropriate and economical materials, systems, services and designs.

Methodology: Quality Assurance and Quality Control

Project quality is built on strong design and technical coordination. At Cannon Design, this is an area with dedicated leadership and a refined set of controls and procedures. This leadership is provided by a team of designated Quality Leaders in place throughout our regional network. Quality Leaders support project teams and serve as visionaries for the continuous improvement that distinguishes Cannon Design’s culture of quality and innovation. Cannon Design understands that delivering quality is the responsibility of each team member.

UBC Student Union Building, Concept Design

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In-house Peer Reviewers are a group of experienced professionals that provide oversight and guidance to the project team and lead a series of independent multidisciplinary peer reviews that will occur at key schedule milestones in the development of the project. This system of quality checks and balances augments and parallels the team’s separate responsibility to monitor and manage quality, and provides an effective dynamic to ultimately deliver a project that meets Client goals and expectations.

4 Our Team

Our Team: A project-centric approach

Instead of the common top-down hierarchical organization we prefer instead to establish a more horizontal and collegial team approach. Four senior individuals will take responsibility for specific essential parallel leadership portfolios and management functions of the project.

Principal-in-Charge Marion E. LaRue LEED® AP, Principal Overall responsibility for quality of our firm’s service to the AMS.Project Manager David Wilkinson MAIBC MRAIC, Associate Principal

Day-to-day resource and team management, primary client contact for contracts, business and performance accountability. Workshop co-facilitator.

Design Principal Andrew King MRAIC, Design PrincipalOverall responsibility for architectural design and urban design.

Project Architect Christopher Rowe MAIBC MRAIC LEED® AP, Vice PresidentDesign leadership and coordination of the integrated design team, primary client contact for design and workshop co- facilitation.

Specialist Architect Brad Lukanic AIA LEED® AP, PrincipalStudent life project specialist, design forum leader, planner.

As all five of these individuals have extensive design and delivery experience with related projects, they will collaborate across their areas of expertise throughout the development of the project and work closely with the rest of the design and production team. All five are committed for the duration of the project, through 2014. To ensure further project continuity, each role is backed up by at least one other role in case of emergency. Thus the Principal in Charge backs up the Project Director, who backs up the Project Architect who backs up the Design Principal. The level of involvement that each professional provides during the period rises and falls by phase, but the AMS commitment trumps all other demands for the committed period.

Project Team: Cannon Design expert faculty

The following subject-matter experts will join us during our design workshops. All are seasoned experts that will stimulate high-level thinking amongst session participants, and help foster powerful yet achievable concepts:

Patricia Roy ARIDO Student Interiors and Retail TorontoDavid Hewko M. Arch Process & Program VancouverCraig Hamilton AIA Student Union Buildings Los AngelesStephen Johnson AIA, Principal Student Life Buildings Mehrdad Yazdani, Design Principal Student Life Design Los AngelesHelen Pang MAIBC, LEED® AP Senior Design Architect VancouverJohn Swift PE LEED® AP Sustainable Engineering BostonMatthias Schuler Dipl Ing Living Buildings StuttgartFreda Pagani MAIBC Campus Sustainability Vancouver

We firmly believe that the New SUB project will also benefit from contributions from the many students and faculty on campus who has their own disciplinary expertise and curiosity. Our extended-faculty approach allows us to better engage and harness this kind of community contribution. Our expert faculty will act as advocates for their specific areas of knowledge, and will model great integrated design behavior.

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12 Project Team: Daylighting design support by the Cannon Design Lighting Studio

Julie Donovan, LC Darryl Mensinger, LC Sara Schonour, LC, LEED® AP Raymon Soto, LC, LEED® AP

Our award-winning Lighting Studio offers full lighting design capabilities including interior and exterior lighting, control strategies, daylighting and daylight harvesting, and energy modeling.

The team designs holistically, with special sensitivity to aesthetic, energy efficiency, sustainability issues, maintenance concerns, and seamless integration with building goals. The group has worked on multiple projects seeking varying levels of LEED® certification in the past 12 months. The group works regularly with Cannon Design’s Vancouver office – collaborating with colleagues in our Shanghai office using Revit BIM and IES Virtual Environment software to simulate and calculate criteria necessary to demonstrate LEED® daylighting compliance.

The Cannon Design lighting studio will support the electrical engineering team with specific involvement in daylighting simulation and design recommendations, as well as bridge between the architectural design team and the electrical design team with contributions to lighting concepts and fixture selection.

5 An Integrated Project Team Familiar to the AMS/UBC Community

How can your architects make sure that the New SUB project is an effective, efficient high-performer? By choosing an integrated design team with the best interests of the project in mind. Cannon Design’s proposed specialists are selected for their proven capabilities in the UBC campus environment, their history with us on other projects, or their direct relevance to the New SUB project. Some of our choices are currently involved with UBC’s University Boulevard/University Square initiative in a way that we believe makes them useful to the New SUB team*.

IDP Chair Cannon Design Christopher Rowe, MAIBC, LEED® AP Structural* Read Jones Christoffersen Jeff Corbett, P.EngMechanical The AME Group Ltd. Harold Stewart, P.Eng, LEED® APElectrical Applied Engineering Solutions Met Ulker, P.Eng, LEED® APCivil* Aplin+Martin Consultants Andrew Baker, P.EngLandscape* Phillips Farevaag Smallenberg Chris Phillips, BCSLA, FCSLASustainability/LEED® Cannon Design Jennifer Melnyk, LEED® APCode/Life Safety LMDG Building Code Consultants Geoff TriggsInteriors Cannon Design Interiors Group Patricia Roy, ARIDOFood Service Lisa Bell + Associates Lisa BellEnvelope Morrison Hershfield Pierre Gallant, MAIBCCost BTY Group Toby Mallinder, PQSLighting/Daylighting Cannon Lighting Design Group Sara Schonour, LC, LEED® APClimate Engineering TRANSSOLAR Klima Energietechnik Matthias Schuler

*currently constrained from participation, but available to AMS once MoU terms agreed by both parties. Should this not be forthcoming, we will propose alternate consultants for these disciplines.

Please refer to the Appendices for further information on our team members.

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6 3 An Ideas-Based Practice Thriving in the Real World

Methodology: Clients Are Our Most Important Partners

The people of Cannon Design are committed to working with our clients in a collaborative partnering manner. We abide by our established guiding principles in all our professional work. We seek to align ourselves with our client’s goals and deliver services that consistently meet their quality, schedule and cost objectives. We commit ourselves to a process of continuous quality improvement, using the power of our imagination, knowledge, and experience to contribute to our clients’ success.

Our mission is to design buildings and places that promote productivity, enhance quality of life, minimize negative environmental impact, and contribute positively to an enduring cityscape. A guiding principle of Cannon Design is that each project reflects the spirit and personality of its owner. We believe that by listening hard to our clients and responding thoughtfully and creatively, good design becomes great design.

We are very proud to have been associated with the SUB Renewal project up to now and to have made a contribution to the success of the AMS’s SUB Renewal fee referendum. Our work with the AMS and UBC students has been intellectually stimulating and rewarding and we know that the next phase of project development will be even more exciting.

Methodology: Inclusivity and interactivity

Our approach is intended to foster a close and creative working relationship between all members of the project team, especially the AMS and the wider student community. We seek to ensure that all stakeholders are heard and that all viewpoints are considered. Building on our existing knowledge of the project and our relationships with the AMS and students, we will work with you from the outset to establish an approach and schedule tailored to the unique characteristics of the New SUB project and its many stakeholders.

We will work with you towards a deep understanding of the New SUB’s potential, beginning with fundamentals: What are the needs and priorities of modern students? What is the nature of student culture at UBC? What is the role of the university in the community? What are the emerging trends in society and the economy? How will these trends influence the form, character, and patterns of use of the facility over its long lifespan?

 Social goals – contribution to campus interaction, inclusivity, vitality and lifestyle. Support for food, commerce, entertainment and the arts. Consideration of recreation and expression of spiritual/religious tolerance.  Design goals – future-proof, enduring character, flexibility, truly student image, and compelling experiential qualities Urban design goals – public place-making and pathways inside and out, enriched natural and urban space and connecting commuters with the campus.  Sustainability goals – leadership targets for environmental, food security and economic sustainability of the New SUB, and ensuring that the ‘old’ SUB is responsibly dealt with.  Cost goals – delivering best value within the limits of available funding. Balanced approach to size, durability, environmental goals. Understanding the operational costs of the future created by the capital expenditures of today.

Cannon Design will organize workshops and charettes to address all aspects of the design, from the basics – form, character and basic planning – to more detailed development. Inclusive, intensive design sessions will connect design professionals with users, operators, authorities and managers to brainstorm ideal solutions. Ideas will be assembled, documented, assessed and presented for consideration by the project leadership. All stakeholders will be able to have an input into the design and take some personal ownership of the design direction.

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7Our design forum methodology will be familiar to those who participated in our exploration of SUB design options in November 2007. Cannon Design gathered designers from many of our offices across North America to work with AMS representatives and UBC students over three intense days. Six multidisciplinary teams each developed a unique design approach reimagining the existing SUB building. More than just a team-building exercise, this design forum supplied a supercharged burst of creativity focused on a range of priorities, with the design responses providing a tangible foundation for serious consideration and debate. Continuing design work is documented in an interim schematic design report, with a concept-level cost estimate. When the schematic design is complete a final Schematic Design Report documents the design in full, with estimated costs, as a basis for design development of the project.

Vision: Going beyond sustainability

During our previous work with the AMS we learned about students’ expectations that their project demonstrate exceptional leadership in design for sustainability. We know this means a lot more than just attaining LEED® Platinum certification. We know this means that merely being ‘sustainable’ may not be enough – the new SUB building itself must go on to make a dramatically positive contribution to the environment as a regenerative building. It must be future-proofed in a way that allows it to continually accept new technologies and evolve towards increasingly higher performance, whether that be through water harvesting and reuse, energy production, GHG reduction, oxygenation, urban agriculture, or the support of vital new social patterns and ways of student life.

Vision: Thinking about the future

Other than not building anything, the most sustainable approach is to build for the ages. A university building should be expected to have a lifespan of at least 100 years, if not more. The pace of social and technological change is fierce, and no designer could begin to anticipate exactly how the building might be used in the distant future. Even 10 years into the future, students might not recognize the way New SUB is used. One way to accommodate this flux is to think of the building as a framework or armature that can easily adapt to new patterns of use and have new technologies inserted into its fabric. This has to be allowed without major disruption or massive expense – in fact, the building’s design should even encourage change.

Methodology: Integrated Design Process

Achieving the goal of a design solution that is environmentally sound, highly efficient, and aesthetically superior, without increasing capital costs (over conventional design solutions), and with reduced long-term operating and maintenance costs requires much more than a conventional design and consultant coordination approach. A disciplined and methodical process is needed.

The interplay of the building’s engineered systems and its physical environment will be carefully examined and simulated with the latest modelling tools. Alternative solutions will be evaluated for their efficiency and the design refined to obtain the highest possible performance. The complete integration of all design disciplines and program demands is our way to achieve the highest design quality and most remarkable aesthetics, not an impediment that stunts creativity.

We base our process on that recommended by the IISBE (International Initiative for a Sustainable Built Environment), which in turn is based on NRCan’s C-2000 process. The Roadmap for the Integrated Design Process is an exceptionally clear checklist for this process. This systematic process is based on seeking input and advice from the broadest consultant team possible at the earliest stages of design, when there is the greatest possible chance to influence the cost-effective performance of the project. Ongoing simulation, cost verification, and team review is then used to objectively evaluate the performance of proposed design strategies. It is a truism that a project can achieve only two of the three targets of being green, costing less, and completed fast – it will be important to find the right balance and ensure that there is opportunity in the design process to thoroughly evaluate the outcomes of each design option and decision. The interdisciplinary team contributes to synergies in the entire project through the functional program, the integration of the structural system, and the architectural harmony of the solution.

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FACTOID:

In the mid-sixties, the AMS and the University worked out a great

way to choose their new building... an anonymous architectural

competition!

Under the close supervision of a blue-ribbon committee of

architectural judges they chose a design that was mailed in from…

wait for it... WINNIPEG!

The guy on the right is the AMS president of the day, Roger McAfee.

He is being soothed and whispered to by an ‘expert elder’.

A 1969 Canadian Architect magazine review of the completed building

said the following:

“Instead of a ‘free-thought’ structure which might have offered an

open-ended solution for future change – a solution which would

breathe with the times and expand and contract with ease, the

building is a statement of !nality...

The building seems more a symbol of containment than

freedom.”

…that was 1969!

this is crowd-sourced architecture

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building a legacy means building an emotional connection to a place, not a thing

in-house daylighting designin-house energy modeling

in-house sustainability engineering skilled facilitators in-house cost control and estimating

blank-slate design processesinclusive design workshopsquadruple bottom-line sustainability thinking

international experience, local roots

lots of knowledge, lots of experience, beginner’s mind

it’s an organism

100 years of memories start here

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