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Nano-quant building will fill B2 green

Ryan Chen-Wing - 7 May 2006 - 11:45pm

The building that will be built between MC, B2, and SLC will replace B2 green and become UW's third largest building according to information from its conceptual design. The Board of Governors approved the conceptual design at its meeting at the beginning of April.

At approximately 250,000 square feet of floor space the building will be smaller than only Mathematics & Computer Centre and Davis Centre. Some complexes like UW Place are larger but consist of several buildings.

In her 4 April report to board, Chair of Building & Properties Committee Mary Bales wrote, "Because early estimates indicate that the $56.25 milion construction budget (before contingency) will not be adequate to complete the fit-out of the entire building, significant effort will be required to determine which spaces can be shelled (not finished) and where cost efficiencies can be achieved."

The report refers to a total cost of $70.3 million and says architects Kuwabara Payne Blumberg Architects with HDR Architecture Inc. will produce drawings for a targeted occupancy of 2008/2009.


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Will the CS statue have to move?

Ryan - Monday, 8 May, 2006 - 09:49

Some of the building juts out at higher floors, but it does seem to cover where the blue CS statue is. So, either it will be very close to the building or will have to move.

Hopefully it won't go away like the former best statue on campus, "Joy."

Gone and not returning to its plinth across from the Graduate House is "Joy", a concrete sculpture by Theodore Harlander that had graced the campus since 1971.

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Meh

Albert OConnor - Friday, 12 May, 2006 - 14:26

It was once an statue outside of Civil Engineering. Apparently the students felt it meant "Civil Sucks". It is a mobile statue.

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Goodbye B2 Green, we'll miss you

Hiro - Tuesday, 9 May, 2006 - 14:46

With a targeted occupancy of 2008/2009, and given the ginormity of the building, it would seem reasonable that they'd start construction this fall.

Ah, how I'll miss one of the few decent views on campus. It just won't be the same looking out from the Bomber patio...only to see a big ugly building instead of people playing frisbee on the beautiful green grass.

Another interesting consequence to consider is the beach volleyball sandpit, and with it, extended patio parties during the summer. From the looks of the designs, a large part of the building juts out overtop of the pit.

But let's look on the bright side, we'll now have one of the finest research centres for quantum computing! Not to mention the state-of-the art cleanroom and metrology suite. Oh I'm getting excited just writing about it! That's what matters most right? right?

Good thing they incorporated the indoor astro-turf frisbee gym...

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Goodbye sun, we'll miss you

Incara - Wednesday, 10 May, 2006 - 10:42

Why do they need such a big building? It's NANOtechnology...

I'll only support it if each student gets to do a quantum leap at least once...well, maybe twice so that they can come back to their proper time and body.

The rock garden will probably be covered in the building's shadow all the time too. Poor rocks won't be able to grow.

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*sighs*

KevinR - Thursday, 11 May, 2006 - 12:42

Well, by the time this building is in commission, I'll probably be long gone and just be getting phone calls asking for me to help fund the construction of it. I'll just get to put up with the ugly construction site during the end of my days at UW.

Here's an idea, why don't they make it a holographic-tech building, then make the surface invisible so at least it looks the same. Unfortunately, there'd then be a lot of dead birds and drunken students running into it after leaving the Bomber, so I suppose that wouldn't work.

One thing I would look forward to if I was still a student then would be one less bitter field to cross during the cold winter, how about connecting it to the SLC? That would at least make it a warmer trip for anyone in Science/Engineering/Math (and Arts students once they reach B2).

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