News
April 2010
KMBR honoured with third BC Wood Design Award
Canadian Architect Magazine:
http://www.canadianarchitect.com/issues/story.aspx?aid=1000367424&link_source=aypr_CA&link_targ=DailyNews
Wood Works! BC Gala: BC wood projects bask in the limelight at industry awards show
Journal of Commerce:
http://www.journalofcommerce.com/article/id38280
March 2010
Wood Design Awards salute architects, engineers and project teams
News Wire:
http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/March2010/30/c6082.html
Crawford Bay Elementary-Secondary School recipient of 2010 WoodWorks! BC Institutional Wood Design Award < $10M
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KMBR Architects Planners Inc. - Multi-sector architect implements community-driven green design
Canadian Builders Quarterly magazine:
http://www.canadianbuildersquarterly.com/cbqmarapr14/pages/28.php
KMBR Architect Robert G. Billard takes HPD™ on the road
KMBR Associate Robert Billard (MAIBC) has been invited to speak on KMBR’s unique Holistic Project Delivery method (HPD)™ at the Alberta Association of Architects’ annual Banff Session. This year’s conference, entitled SCALE, runs April 16 & 17, with Robert’s seminar on the HPD™ method featured on day one of the event.
The HPD™ method flows from the perceived need to re-think various design process currently in vogue (IDP, IPD) as well as to consider work practices with the advent of Building Information Modeling tools. It is a design workflow process founded in a strict objective-based process led by the project schedule and physical deliverables. It incorporates green initiatives such as LEED® but is not led solely by them. The intent is to approach the project from as many sides with as many minds as possible to ensure as holistic an outcome as possible. HPD™ can be adapted to any project but used in its purest form, it results in a significant departure from the traditional schedule and phased project delivery method. KMBR’s Holistic Project Delivery (HPD)™ method provides a real means for creating consensus, and a structure to keep all parties on track, together. In short, HPD™ is the Integrated Design Process, only better.
Participants at Robert’s seminar will be able to:
1. Understand the Principles of HPD™
2. Understand why and when to use HPD™
3. Learn how HPD™ can be an alternative to Design-Build
4. Learn the role of the HPD™ Coordinator and
5. Review the HPD™ process.
The Banff Session historically draws a full house of nearly 400 architects, designers, academics and students from all parts of Canada and the United States. Robert’s seminar is one of several being facilitated by internationally acclaimed architects from around the world.
Robert’s continuing education session:
http://www.banffsession.ca/HTML/ContinuingEducation.html
To register:
http://www.banffsession.ca/HTML/RegistrationFees.html
Higher learning and a raised roof: COTR’s recent expansion will raise the college’s profile
Kootenay Business:
http://www.kootenaybiz.com/developments/articles/higher_learning_and_a_raised_roof
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Crawford Bay Elementary-Secondary school receives Fortis BC PowerSense Conservation Excellence Award
FortisBC:
http://www.fortisbc.com/powersense/PSCEA2009/PSCEA2009_Kootenay_Conservation_Awards_Winners.html#sd08
February 2010
KMBR pitches in to create
the “most sustainable neighbourhood
in
the world”
Millennium Water: The Southeast False Creek Olympic Village is officially the greenest, most energy efficient and sustainable neighbourhood on Earth, after the Canadian Green Building Council announced the LEED Gold certification of all the residential buildings on the site, and the US Green Building Council awarded LEED Platinum ND status to the community as a whole, one of only two neighbourhoods in North America to attain this designation.
KMBR Associate Eric Stacey (MAIBC) lead KMBR’s efforts, in association with GBL Architects Ltd., in the design and contract administration of Millennium Water’s Parcel 9, as well as the contract administration phases for Parcels 2 and 5. Eric was on site for a year and a half handling a wide range of responsibilities, including: conducting field reviews, efficiency reviews and occupancy reviews; responding to Requests for Information; reviewing progress claims; and answering questions from contractors when a design response was required. Eric’s role on the team was integral to the completion of the project, which will likely be one of the most valuable legacies of the 2010 Olympic Winter Games.
The Challenge Series:
http://thechallengeseries.cmail4.com/T/ViewEmail/y/AD06DEE38A5136D0/4791F77643A0F786C5EC08CADFFC107B
CTV BC: Olympic Village hailed the world’s greenest neighbourhood:
http://www.ctvbc.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20100216/bc_false_creek_sustainability_100216/20100216?hub=BritishColumbia
Game City
The Architect's Newspaper:
http://archpaper.com/e-board_rev.asp?News_ID=4229&PagePosition=1
November 2009
KMBR Principal Witmar Abele is keynote speaker at series of Wood WORKS! conferences
Conference Brochure
News Release, Newswire:
http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/November2009/13/c8994.html
Wood Works! BC:
http://www.wood-works.org/BC%20Wood%20WORKS/Luncheon%20Conferences/?Language=EN
October 2009
Penticton Secondary School receives Fortis BC PowerSense Conservation Excellence Award
On October 29, 2009 the Fortis BC PowerSense Conservation Excellence Award was received at the Fortis awards ceremony by John Hickling, the Director of Maintenance at School District 67 (Okanagan Skaha), for the Penticton Secondary School project. The award is given "in recognition of outstanding achievement in energy efficiency through sustainable choices and innovative projects."
FortisBC:
http://www.fortisbc.com/powersense/PSCEA2009/PSCEA2009_Okanagan_Conservation_Awards_Winners.html#sd67
KMBR Architects Planners Inc. to design third major project for
College of the Rockies: College of the Rockies South Entrance Expansion
Canadian Architect:
http://www.canadianarchitect.com/issues/ISArticle.asp?aid=1000343222
September 2009
Spectacular New Drawings: College of the Rockies South Entrance Expansion
College Business, College of the Rockies:
http://cotr-social.cotr.bc.ca/blogs/blog/2009/09/02/spectacular-new-drawings/
July 2009
2009 SAB Awards Winner: Crawford Bay Elementary-Secondary
SAB Magazine:
http://www.sabmagazine.com/blog/2009/08/20/sab-awards-winner-crawford-bay/
June 2009
Contracts awarded for College Knowledge Infrastructure Program expansion: College of the Rockies South Entrance Expansion
College of the Rockies:
http://www.cotr.bc.ca/press/fullhdLine.asp?IDnumber=458
Visit the College of the Rockies online:
http://www.cotr.bc.ca/expansion/cotr_web.asp?IDNumber=169
A Holistic Approach: A Vancouver-based architect is helping to develop
a streamlined project management process known as the Holistic Project
DeliveryTM method.
Read the article written by Robert G. Billard in Canadian Architect:
http://www.canadianarchitect.com/Issues/ISarticle.asp?aid=1000331730
Principal Gregg Brown recieves RAIC Fellowship
KMBR is proud to announce that Principal Gregg Brown has been bestowed the
honour of member of the College of Fellows with the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (RAIC).
News Release, KMBR | News Release, RAIC
Visit RAIC's website to view the 2009 book of photos and citations:
http://www.raic.org/raic/college_of_fellows/2009fellows.pdf
May 2009
Making green choices: The new Crawford Bay school is paving the way for a green future
Kootenay Business:
http://www.kootenaybiz.com/developments/makinggreenchoices.php
Crawford Bay Elementary-Secondary receives 2009 SAB Green
Building Award. Visit Sustainable Architecture & Building Magazine online:
http://sabmagazine.com/winners09.html
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April 2009
Sutherland Secondary receives 2009 CEFPI Pacific Northwest Region
Pinnacle Awards - Citation Award
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Richmond Christian School receives 2009 CEFPI Pacific Northwest
Region
Pinnacle Awards - Award of Merit
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Leading the way in Crawford Bay: Community input key ingredient in school's success: Crawford Bay Elementary-Secondary
Nelson Daily News: April 20, 2009
Global Warming – What We Can Do! New School Sustains Community: Crawford Bay Elementary-Secondary
Nelson Daily News: April 8, 2009
First completed BC LEED Gold school opens:
Crawford Bay
Elementary-Secondary
News Release, Ministry of Education:
http://www2.news.gov.bc.ca/news_releases_2005-2009/2009EDUC0057-000756.htm
Crawford Bay Elementary-Secondary opens its doors
Columbia Basin Trust:
http://www.cbt.org/newsroom/?view&vars=1&content=Spotlight%20Gallery&
WebDynID=1001
$11 million earmarked for elementary school: Adams Road Elementary
The Cloverdale Reporter:
http://www.bclocalnews.com/surrey_area/cloverdalereporter/news/42361407.html
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Schools growing strong environmental roots: Adams Road Elementary
Surrey Leader:
http://www.bclocalnews.com/surrey_area/surreyleader/community/43385482.html
Okanagan College to expand: OC Trades & Technology Masterplan
Kelowna Capital News:
http://www.bclocalnews.com/okanagan_similkameen/kelownacapitalnews/
opinion/42789092.html
March 2009
$17M FOR SCHOOL CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS IN SURREY:
Adams Road Elementary
News Release, Ministry of Education:
http://www2.news.gov.bc.ca/news_releases_2005-2009/2009EDUC0041-000581.pdf
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