Yellowhead County Municipal Services Centre-Wildwood AB

Arrow was involved in this project as a response to challenges faced by the Yellowhead County and its prime consultant, Alastair Cockburn Architects, in providing a state of the art municipal services center on a rural, unserved parcel of land. Arrow assisted with the project by providing the engineering design, project management, approvals, provisions for a future truck fill station, site servicing, stormwater management, site grading and on-site sanitary sewage system. Other services included performing surveying and construction inspection services for a 1-km extension of an off-site water main adjacent to a high voltage power main.

Arrow was involved with the site owner’s builder for the civil site design of the 3.25-acre site. Services include sanitary and water main servicing from existing municipal mains, as well as site grading and stormwater management with on-site detention to restrict any site run-off contributions to pre-development rates. Arrow’s role was further extended to include the initial topographic survey of the site which helped establish existing grades and confirm the limit of area wetlands. Other services included executing a legal survey to assist with the subdivision of the lot from the larger parcel and creating the construction layout to set key elevations for rough grading.

Parkland CLASS required a new administrative building on an existing 11-ha school site in the City of Red Deer. The goal of the project was to support services for children and adults with disabilities. Arrow’s involvement included the initial site survey, preparing designs for the sanitary sewer and the water main servicing the site, and the site grading and stormwater management design. For the servicing options, Arrow looked at a variety of city trunk mains in the vicinity of the site.

Vanier Woods, in the City of Red Deer, is a site that required the re-development of a residential acreage within an existing residential subdivision into a commercial site that supported the larger development area. Arrow was retained by the site’s architect to carry out the site survey (using Mobile Mapping technology,) and to prepare the designs for the site utility servicing, site grading and stormwater management to match the City of Red Deer’s standards.

Arrow was involved in the construction of a phased multi-family site which included rezoning, subdivision and road closure.

Russel Metals purchased two 10-acre lots in Border Industrial Park with the intent of using the south lot for a new office and manufacturing facility and reserving the north lot for future expansions. Arrow’s expertise was retained for the provision of the overall rough grading for the 20 acres. The development of the south 10 acres was to accommodate the office/manufacturing facility, metals handling area, and a storage yard. The project required a NAV CANADA Land Use Proposal due to the site’s close proximity to the Edmonton International Airport.

Manasc Issac Architects reached out to Arrow for its expertise in site grading, stormwater management, site mechanical, utility coordination and construction inspections. The requirement to incorporate the existing asphalt parking areas made the site design and servicing challenging, but Arrow was able to successfully include the requirements while also providing innovative stormwater Management to achieve LEED®-certified Gold.

Arrow’s Mechanical team worked alongside Stantec Architecture and Clark Builders to design the Svend Hansen School, a 900 student K-9 facility in South East Edmonton’s developing Laurel neighbourhood. Svend Hansen was one out of five K-9 EPSB schools developed and delivered simultaneously under the Arrow / Stantec purview. While these schools were somewhat prototypical, specific modifications were required for each to suit the unique needs of students and teaching staff.

With just under two years to complete design and construction, project timing was a consistent challenge for the team. We approached these schools with a high level of collaboration throughout the design phase, working diligently to design to avoid time-consuming changes throughout construction.

Svend Hansen was ready for occupancy by the time the 2017 school year kicked off and holds a two-storey “Learning Commons,” various classrooms and administrative space, a gym, and food and music labs. Svend Hansen is LEED Silver Certified and integrates some 21st Century Learning environment designs, including garage doors on classrooms and flexible design in the Learning Commons.

The InterPipeline expansion in Sherwood Park was a complex, multi-phased renovation of the facility that houses InterPipeline’s SCADA control centre for all of their pipelines. Arrow’s Mechanical and Electrical groups worked alongside the teams from Delnor and ACI Architects to design and deliver this complex project.

The addition to InterPipeline’s existing space was comprised of expanded office space, an exercise room, multi-purpose spaces and a large control centre, which required a specialized continuous environmental control system.

Given that this was built over an existing storm line, collaboration and strategy between the project team was essential for project success.

In response to an increased demand for Seniors Supportive Living in Downtown Edmonton, ONE Properties created the concept for Clifton Place. Taking shape in a long-vacant lot in Edmonton’s High Street area, Clifton Place will include 22-storeys of residential space (263 suites total), with a six-storey podium designated to hold the Seniors Facility at the base of the tower. As a very walkable site, Clifton Place will provide a high level of accessibility to amenities for seniors. The 137 units contained within the podium will take up the majority of available space, but will be available to anyone.

Arrow’s Mechanical and Electrical teams are contributing to the design of systems within Clifton Place by applying their extensive experience in the design of multi-unit and mixed-use residential as well as Seniors Facilities.  Arrow’s Electrical group will design exterior and feature lighting for high-traffic areas, along with lighting to facilitate a comfortable, homey environment within residential suites. Mechanical design includes HVAC systems throughout the building. Eventually, Clifton Place is intended to have a walkway to the nearby River Valley.