Air Canada Centre

Toronto, Canada

Toronto’s Air Canada Centre (ACC), home to the NHL’s Toronto Maple Leafs and the NBA’s Toronto Raptors, also serves as one of Southern Ontario’s premiere entertainment venues and convention centres.

Air Canada Centre

Toronto, Canada

Project led by Entuitive leaders while employed at a previous firm.

Built within the façade of an art deco postal building, the ACC consists of seven main levels: two parking levels, the event surface, the main concourse, a suite level, an upper concourse, and media and group sales suites in the roof. Nestled in each end of the building are smaller lodge and balcony suite levels. The ACC also features an office tower.

The structural design included a cast-in-place concrete bowl supporting cast-in-place concrete floors and precast seating. The bowl was designed without expansion joints by carefully considering the internal forces of thermal and shrinkage effects.

location

Toronto, Canada

Awards

1999 Award of Excellence, Canadian Consulting Engineers

Client

Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment

Size

75,000 m² (800,000 ft²)

Architect

BBB Architects

Budget

$250 M

Role

Structural Engineering Consultant

Challenge

The client required an accelerated building schedule.

Solution

We worked with the construction management team, the structural steel subcontractor, and the mechanical engineering contractor to build mechanical rooms within the roof structure. To do this, we supported a partially completed roof using four temporary support towers inside the arena. By using this roof erection process, our team shaved two months off the construction schedule.

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Air Canada Centre