Broughton Street, Vancouver
A 186 unit, 26-storey rental apartment building located at the northwest corner of Comox and Broughton Streets in the West End of Downtown Vancouver. Each unit features contemporary architectural design, sophisticated interior finishes and thoughtful environmental features. The building is part of the city plan that would increase the pool of affordable housing in the area.
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Athletes Way, Vancouver
Part of the Olympic Village, Canada House was home to Team Canada athletes during the 2010 Winter Olympics and Paralympics that Vancouver hosted. Canada House features a subtle twist in design, east at the back and west at the front that reflects practical as well as aesthetic considerations. The taller height of the West building would have blocked a public garden from the sun at certain times of the day. To solve this problem, the architects bent the west side in and then counterbalanced it by leaning the east side in on the opposite side for earthquake safety. The combined effect produces a striking twist most visible from the north side of False Creek.
The shape of Canada House resembles a bulging square with a façade of alternating horizontal glass and steel panels. These metal panels even change colour as they reflect the sun’s movement, producing a stunning “sequential sunset” when driving over Cambie Bridge at the right time. A stack of vertical balconies rising at an angle on the north and south sides creates a balanced structure. The roof-line steps down toward the seawall, offering units breathtaking views of False Creek while preserving light and air intake for the buildings behind it.
Atlas analyzed the building and its various structures with the Architect and relevant professional partners. The solution required an assortment of standard and custom equipment used in unique applications of fall protection work to allow for roof top, exterior building maintenance and window washing operations.
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6180-6300 No 3 Road, Richmond BC
Mandarin Residences is a two tower concrete and glass project with 348 homes. Rising 18-storeys and showcasing contemporary West Coast architecture. Located in the heart of downtown Richmond, Mandarin Residences is adjacent to Richmond Center.
The scope of this project included anchors to provide maintenance of Green Roofs and enable Window Cleaning on the two towers.
Several large Architectural overhangs required the use of Atlas’s rope guide devices to ensure that window cleaners could properly service these set-back windows.
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Great Northern Way, Vancouver
MEC Headquarters is a next-generation green building and is designed to meet one of the world’s highest green standards. Outdoor amenities include water management, extensive landscaping, walking paths, seating and a rooftop patio with vegetable planters and fruit trees. ‘blue roof’ which refers to a rainwater collection system to irrigate the entire campus grounds, a geo-exchange heating and cooling system, solar hot water and heating panels.
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Canada Place is the main cruise ship terminal for the region, where most of Vancouver’s cruises to Alaska originate. The building’s unique exterior is covered by fabric roofs resembling the sails of a ship. It is part of and adjacent to the Vancouver Convention Centre and includes the Pan Pacific Vancouver Hotel, Vancouver’s World Trade Centre, and FlyOver Canada.
Atlas has worked in conjunction with Canada Place over the the past 15+ years. Atlas has designed, supplied and installed a number of fall protection systems including a Horizontal Life Line to enable roof top maintenance, including the sails themselves, systems to enable the install of large LED Screens and anchors to provide the safe maintenance of raised planter boxes. Flexibility in design and cooperation with the client was key as needs have been identified and changes made at this iconic Vancouver building.
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Elbow Drive SW, Calgary
Britannia Crossing is a five storey, mixed use, boutique commercial development located in a prestigious community on a prominent high exposure corner of Elbow Drive and 50th Avenue SW in Calgary.
Atlas was involved with this project from the early concept stage. A redesign of the Fall Protection system was required when solar panels were subsequently added to the roof after the initial design was completed. Close co-ordination with the contractor and solar panel supplier resulted in a safe and user friendly system for both fall protection when working on the roof, as well as window washing.
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Mount Royal Circle SW, Calgary
With almost 16,000 square metres of functional space, the Riddell Library & Learning Centre is four times larger than the previous library. Offering flexible, multimedia teaching spaces, a student learning commons, group study and media production rooms. A hub for lectures, presentations and other public events.
Working with the General Contractor, Stuart Olsen, Atlas designed an optimum exterior building maintenance system requiring the minimum amount of reinforcing of the host structure.
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The Bella, a 773-seat concert hall, studio space and musical classroom at the Mount Royal Conservatory on the Mount Royal University campus in southwest Calgary is city’s newest jewel of a performing arts venue. The Bella’s has a unique western Canadian-tinted design translated into bricks and mortar. The Bella is a state of the art, medium-sized concert hall, featuring 43 soundproofed practice studios, an early childhood instructional suite, six ensemble rehearsal halls for choirs, chamber groups and orchestras, a percussion room, and master class rooms.
Atlas designed and installed an HLL and rigid rail for interior maintenance of the concert hall which allowed for the safe rigging of lighting and theater equipment. An exterior rigid rail and ladder for roof maintenance and single point anchors for Building Maintenance. Building complexities made for challenging locations for securing the HLL and rigid rail.
Worker safety and building aesthetics were both of importance to the owner. Atlas blended our equipment with their surroundings by using matching custom champagne and copper color powder coating of the rigid rail fall protection systems and ladder while maintaining the required tolerances for the trolleys.
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3007 Glen Dr Coquitlam BC
A 30 storey high rise with 195 units. Evergreen is the final tower in the Westwood Village project, which is next to Coquitlam city hall.
ATLAS designed and installed a system to facilitate Roof Top Maintenance & Bosun’s Chair Window Washing of the building.
ATLAS worked closely with the client to meet changes required by the client in product and installation due to the demands of their Construction Schedule.
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18228 68th Avenue, Surrey B.C.
Built on a site acquired by the School District to accommodate enrollment growth in the North West Cloverdale area. Wherever possible Wood was used in the construction of the school.
ATLAS installed CSW-9100-WR anchors with flashing and foam insulation for Roof Top Maintenance of Schools sloping roof.
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