2024 · Commercial · Vernon, BC
Vernon Tech Campus
- Contract value
- $185M
- Delivery model
- Design-Build
- Area
- 340,000 sq ft
- Duration
- 31 months
- Client
- Okanagan Innovation Trust
- Consultant
- Stratton & Coke design-build team with Fenwick Studio
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Vernon, BC
Project narrative
Three interconnected mass-timber office blocks and a central utility plant forming a Step Code 4 research campus in the North Okanagan.
The challenge
The trust needed occupancy for an anchor tenant 20 months after award, well inside a conventional design-bid-build programme, and the mass-timber supply chain carried a 34-week lead time.
Our approach
Design-build let us release the glulam package at 45% design development and pour foundations under an early-works permit. Panelized envelope assemblies were fabricated off site in Armstrong, cutting field envelope work from 22 weeks to nine.
The outcome
Block A reached occupancy on the anchor tenant's date. Blocks B and C remain on programme for 2026, with the campus tracking 41% below the reference building's energy-use intensity.
Detail of the completed curtain wall and canopy geometry
Measured outcomes
- 4,100 m³
- Mass timber
- −41% EUI
- Energy intensity
- 78% panelized
- Off-site envelope
- $61M
- Local trade spend
Site record
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