EDMONTON, AB
Meadows Community Recreation Centre & Library
The Meadows Community Recreation Centre is a multifunctional facility that serves the growing needs of the City of Edmonton.
The Meadows Community Recreation Centre is a multifunctional facility that serves the growing needs of the City of Edmonton.
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 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.
Project led by Entuitive leaders while employed at a previous firm.
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.
PROJECT HIGHLIGHTS
CLIENT
The City of Edmonton
ARCHITECT
Group2 Architecture;
Interior Design with Perkins+Will
OUR ROLE(S)
Structural Engineering Consultant
SIZE
21,832 m² (235,000 ft²)
BUDGET
$119 M
MARKET (OFFICE)
EDMONTON
KEY CONSIDERATIONS
Challenge One
Designing creatively within an extremely tight schedule and budget.
Solution One
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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