Surrey’s emerging Health and Technology District is a freshly-curated vibrant hub that provides collaborative spaces for the world’s brightest minds, leading entrepreneurs and modern startups to work together on the common goal of improving healthcare delivery and technology around the world. Known as an “Innovation Ecosystem”, the District creates an environment free from the traditional silos that can limit creativity and ingenuity. The District’s several City Centre buildings create a unique community between academics, researchers, engineers and start-ups.
The building includes approximately 134,500 square feet of 10-storey high-rise office shell space with six levels of underground parkade. The Revit 3D-modelled building utilized a distributed hybrid heat pump system to provide heating and cooling to the building, as well as meet the local district heating design guidelines. A centralized high-efficiency boiler and rooftop closed-circuit fluid cooler provide the heating source and heat rejection for the system. Outdoor air ventilation and exhaust provisions are distributed and capped off to each of the office spaces from a central rooftop energy recovery air handling unit.
The mechanical and fire suppression scope included detailed sprinkler and standpipe design and hydraulic calculations for the base building, which also included a fire pump.
The project has been LEED Gold certified by USGBC under the LEED BD+C Core and Shell LEED V4 rating system.
Williams Engineering (WE) is proud to have partnered with the incredible consulting team that ultimately made this project an outstanding success and provided mechanical consulting engineering and fire suppression design services. Designing buildings to create conditions optimized for collaboration and innovation encourages the world’s most diverse minds to inspire advancements across many industries.
