The Waterstone

45603 Yale Road Chilliwack BC

The 80-unit wood structure Waterstone is the single largest project for MQHS (Mamele’awt Qweesome Housing Society & To’o Housing Society), an affordable housing provider and operator in BC since 1987.

The B.C. government provides $11 million in capital funding for the project, which is part of the total $4.9 billion investment since 2001 to provide affordable housing for low income individuals, seniors and families.

The project will be followed by a 60-unit Yalestone project in Abbotsford in 2019, and a 40-unit Riverstone project in Hope in 2010 operated by the same group.

Atlas worked closely with the Contractor of this project to provide multiple solutions that worked well with this wood frame structure.

Applications:

1. Building Roof top Maintenance (RTM)
2. Scheduled Exterior Building Maintenance

Products:

1. Fall Arrest and Restraint Anchors

Tsawwassen Springs Phase III

5011 Springs Boulevard, Delta, BC

This is the 3rd phase of a master-planned community – Tsawwassen Spring, a total 490 housing units, from condos to single-family, developed by Shato Holding. Designed by Wayne Fougere and constructed by Talisman Homes, the project is one of the largest communities in the city of Delta, which includes a new 18-hole golf course, Pat Quinn’s Restaurant & Bar, and the high-end Springs Ballroom.

The project is known for some high-profile investors: Pat Quinn, Canada’s 2002 Olympic Gold Medal Hockey Coach; Bruce Allen, music industry leader; and world famous musician, Michael Bublé.

With the increasing demand to use all available floor space on projects including the ability to have roof top decks. The fall protection systems are becoming more complicated. Atlas worked closely with the contractor to design a system that works harmoniously with owner occupied roof decks on this project.

Applications:

1. Building Roof top Maintenance (RTM)
2. Scheduled Exterior Building Maintenance

Products:

1. Fall Arrest and Restraint Anchors

Eagle Creek Sound Stage

3510 Spectrum Court, Kelowna, BC

The $3.5m new-built facility includes 6,000-s.f. office space and 15,000-s.f. soundstage with clear-span 40-foot high ceilings. Replacing an old facility in Vernon, the Eagle Creek Studio in Kelowna provides Hollywood film production companies an alternative to Vancouver – one of the world largest production centers with more than 40 purpose-built soundstages and thousands of film workers.

Okanagan region has become a production base of film and TV series recently, and is now a home of 200-400 film workers, thanks to the provincial tax credits and region’s unique landscape.

Atlas worked closely with the contractor to design a functional system for this building.

Applications:

1. Building Roof top Maintenance (RTM)

Products:

1. Fall Arrest and Restraint Anchors

Lyra Residences

4027 Rainbow Street, Victoria, BC

Lyra Residences is a two-tower, 77-unit condominium two-phase development atop Saanich’s Christmas Hill community, knows as pristine Garry oak ecosystem.
Phase one is an eight-storey, 39 two-bedroom unit concrete & steel condominium to be completed in 2018, followed by the phase two to be completed in 2019.

The project is developed jointly by Aplomado Development and Maker Group, both of who had a series developments in the area.

Atlas worked with the GC to design a system that would facilitate Bosun’s chair window cleaning operations, for windows that were inaccessible by residences or other means.

Applications:

1. Building Roof top Maintenance (RTM)
2. Scheduled Exterior Building Maintenance

Products:

1. Fall Arrest and Restraint Anchors

988 West Broadway

988 West Broadway, Vancouver, BC

988 West Broadway is a new LEED® Gold project developed and managed by BlueSky Properties, a Robert Bosa Family Company, whose focus is primarily on the development of commercial buildings along major corridors. Vancouver’s West Broadway corridor is one of the most difficult areas in the region to find and lease office space.

The building, jointly owned by BlueSky and Quebec based insurance firm Industrial Alliance, includes 90,000 SF of commercial space with main floor retail, nine floors of office space boasting a direct connection to future rapid transit with a SkyTrain station in the base of the building. 80% of the building are anchored and occupied by Industrial Alliance’s regional offices, which host 450 employees.

The Northwest façade of this building presented a unique challenge as it has a tapered overhang. Hole-sleeves were used in order to keep the worker close to the glazing below the overhang.
In order to keep anchors off of the Main Roof, Atlas installed anchors into the underside of the concrete soffit of the roof slab. This eliminated the need for anchors on the roof and full coverage for window cleaning was still retained.

Applications:

1. Scheduled Exterior Building Maintenance

Products:

1. Fall Arrest and Restraint Anchors

One Sixty

160 East 6th Street, North Vancouver, BC

The 17-storey high-rise stands on the south easterly edge of Victoria Park in the Lonsdale area of North Vancouver. The building has 93 homes, in which 52 units are stratified and 41 units are rental housing.

The new tower came at the expense of an existing 12-unit rental building from 1954. In order to create a lot large enough to allow the density proposed for the 93 units, the developer bought the adjacent boulevard from the city at a cost of $1.8 million.

Atlas provided fall protection anchors to facilitate planter maintenance at each level of the building. The anchors were cast into the underside of the slab inside the elevator lobbies, so that when it comes time to do maintenance on the planters the workers will be in fall arrest before they reach the area of work. Atlas also provided anchors to facilitate exterior building maintenance and window washing.

Applications:

1. Building Roof top Maintenance (RTM)
2. Scheduled Exterior Building Maintenance

Products:

1. Fall Arrest and Restraint Anchors

The Peninsula at Port Royal

210 Salter Street, New Westminster British Columbia

Sitting at the tip of Queensborough and bordered by the Fraser River on three sides, the 22-storey 163 homes Peninsula is the only high rise in the Port Royal community. Queensborough, once the third largest port in Canada and famed for its long river front walkway, is one of the most rapid developing areas in Metro Vancouver. A new pedestrian and cycling bridge (Q2Q) and a new water taxi dock are soon to be built to improve the accessibility.

The building’s design reflects the character of its environment – a curving glass façade towards the water on one side and a more traditional brick exterior facing the community of Queensborough with its historic single-family homes. The most unusual draw is the private marina just outside the building, which is now very hard to find in the Metro Vancouver Area.

Atlas worked with Aragon project development and construction teams to ensure that some of the buildings larger overhangs were accessible for maintenance operations by way of hole sleeves. The hole sleeves allowed for maintenance workers to properly rig and set up for the recessed window cleaning below the overhangs. Hole sleeves were a cost effective alternative to a monorail option.
Applications:

1. Building Roof top Maintenance (RTM)
2. Scheduled Exterior Building Maintenance

Products:

1. Fall Arrest and Restraint Anchors

Newton Recreation Centre Expansion

13730 72nd Ave. Surrey, BC
The 6 million LEED Gold 8,000 sq. ft expansion project is a single phase expansion and partial renovation of the existing facility. The design emphasizes the importance of putting fitness and athletics on display while enhancing the existing facility lobby, landscape and entrance.

The Mat room relocation and upgrade provides a new space of 4,700 sq. ft. mat room for wrestling, martial arts, dancing, yoga and gymnastics. The ground level fitness area space are doubled in size, feature modern equipment and provide more fitness options including cardio, stretching and functional training for a variety of ages and abilities.

Atlas added anchors to the addition, that match the existing system that was originally designed and inspected by Atlas.

Applications:

1. Building Roof top Maintenance (RTM)

Products:

1. Fall Arrest and Restraint Anchors

Ormidale Block

151 West hasting Street, Vancouver BC

Building Description: Ormidale Block is an over century old four-storey Edwardian commercial building on the southern edge of Vancouver’s historic district, a business area comprising of 100 commercial buildings that currently host about 580 businesses. It was redesigned by B+H Architects to seamlessly combine the fully restored heritage façade, with a brand new 35,000 sf six-storey high end office and retail building behind it.

The project is the winner of the REBUILD Award at the Canadian Urban Institute’s 2015 Brownie Awards.

Atlas staff worked closely with client to insure critical construction timelines were achieved, when the penthouse was redesigned during the process.

Applications:

1. Building Roof top Maintenance (RTM)
2. Scheduled Exterior Building Maintenance

Products:

1. Fall Arrest and Restraint Anchors

BC Hydro Cheakamus Power Station

Brackendale, BC

BC Hydro built the Cheakamus Hydroelectric Power Plant in 1957 on the Cheakamus River near Squamish, B.C. This infrastructure is of TYPE Hydro Power Plant with a design capacity of 158 MW. This power station has the seismic rehabilitation completed in 1988, and is one of the total 11 hydroelectric facilities, originally built between 1911 and 1960, which are now contributing total over 12,000MW, for the lower mainland and coast areas.
Applications:

1. Building Roof top Maintenance (RTM)

Products:

1. Fall Arrest and Restraint Anchors
2. Horizontal Lifeline System (HLL)