Alma on Abbott is Mission Group Homes newest downtown Kelowna development. Located on the beautiful Abbott Street, this new development is surrounded by pedestrian centric corridors, heritage homes and modern residences of the Pandosy Village. The neighbourhood’s greatest asset is Okanagan Lake, which can be seen right through the laneways.
The project includes a six-storey, multi-family residential building with a total of 80 suites. There are four townhome units and three commercial retail units on the main level. There is a rooftop amenity area and Level 2 podium amenity area. There is one level of below grade parking garage as well as covered at-grade level parking and exterior surface parking.
Williams Engineering (WE) is providing the building science consulting engineering services for the design assist/support, design review, shop drawing review, mock-ups review, construction administration and field reviews for this new development.
Our services during the design period included building envelope and roofing design meetings and reviews, as well as specification and shop drawing reviews. We reviewed the building envelope and roofing detail drawings and specifications provided by the architect and provided architectural drawing markups with recommendations and comments regarding the building envelope systems and details. We reviewed building envelope shop drawings when requested, to confirm system suitability and constructability.
Our services during the construction period include site reviews of the building envelope, roofing, and foundation waterproofing systems, with a focus on the detailing of the air barrier, moisture barrier, construction joints, tie-ins between various building envelope components, and workmanship.