BCIT AEROSPACE & TECHNOLOGY CAMPUS
3800 Cessna Drive, Richmond, BC
The British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT) new campus is located on Sea Island, Richmond, BC near Vancouver International Airport and other YVR facilities. The world class campus comprises of a 285,000 sq.ft. building that houses 40 classrooms and labs, 36 faculty offices, a cafeteria, a gym, a theatre, a lecture hall and an enormous hangar complex. Within the hangar complex are 22 customized workshops replicating industry conditions, an integrated resource and research library and a 40,000 sq.ft. main hangar equipped with 20 training aircraft. The geotechnical conditions of the site resulted in a combination of concrete piles and conventional foundations being used on a site densified with stone columns. As a result, the project incorporated many different structural design elements including tilt-up walls, cast-in-place concrete walls and slabs, long span steel trusses, steel floors and roof, eccentric brace frames and seismic expansion joints.
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