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Meadows Community Recreation Centre & Library

Edmonton, Canada

The Meadows Community Recreation Centre is a multifunctional facility that serves the growing needs of the City of Edmonton.

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Meadows Community Recreation Centre & Library

Edmonton, Canada

The Meadows Community Recreation Centre is a multifunctional facility that serves the growing needs of the City of Edmonton.

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

The facility houses two ice rinks, a 15,000 ft² public library, a 10-lane, 25-metre swimming pool with a 5-metre-high diving platform, and a waterslide. Other amenities include a weight room, gymnasium, and indoor running track.

The framing of the building is varied with concrete columns and shear walls, steel columns and braced frames, and glulam roofing members. Two-metre-deep welded wide flange beams span up to 38 metres in length and frame the unique shed-like roof with alternating valleys and ridges.

The facility serves to anchor the community with future adjacent schools to be built and a transportation hub connecting the Silver Berry neighbourhood with the rest of Edmonton. 

location

Edmonton, Canada

Budget

$119 M

LEED Certification

LEED® Silver

Size

21,832 m² (235,000 ft²)

Architect

Group2 Architecture & Interior Design with Perkins+Will

Client

The City of Edmonton

Role

Structural Engineering Consultant

Urban Design Awards

City of Edmonton

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Challenge
Designing creatively within an extremely tight schedule and budget.
Solution
Working within a design and construction window of only nine months, Entuitive engineered an exposed structure that would be architecturally expressive, including precast concrete floors and a combination of structural steel and glulam roof structures. The use of load-bearing masonry throughout the ground floor and most of the second contributed to the cost efficiency and speed of construction for the project.

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