VCC Broadway Campus Redevelopment

[mr.x]

Vancouver Community College Broadway Campus Expansion

http://www.vcc.ca/expansion/

VCC's Broadway campus is expanding. The campus currently serves more than 4,200 students in a facility planned for 1,800. Construction began in October 2006 with the move-in date scheduled for September 2009.


The Broadway campus Phase 1 expansion will have the following impact:

- programs and an additional 219 student FTEs in university transfer programs.

- Provide added instructional space to relieve the over-utilization of classroom and lab stations at Broadway, moving from the current level of 1,540 annual student contact hours per student station (ASCH/STST) to 1,284 ASCH/STST.

- Following the completion of the Phase 1 expansion, the library will be renovated and expanded by 50 percent and the cafeteria by 33 percent.

- The relocation of health programs from the downtown campus to Broadway campus will provide space to allow for expansion of the dental and hospitality programs by 111 and 172 FTEs each.

- These changes will provide facilities necessary to help the college meet the targets of its 10-year academic plan, which projects a 21.3 percent increase in student FTEs, from 7,209 in 2003/04 to 8,744 FTEs in 2013/14.


Size: 124,550 ft² (11,571 meters²)
Location: Glen Drive and 7th Avenue
Budget:
$54.9 million - Project
$45.5 million - Construction
$5.6 million - Planning and Design
$2.0 million - Fees, Insurance, GST, other
$1.8 million - Furniture and equipment

Department/Service Area FT²
Aboriginal Education & Services 700
Bookstore & Coffee Bar 4,069
Continuing Studies 258
Facilities 1,679
Faculty Association Office & Lounge 431
Faculty and Department Offices 10,893
Health Services 1,012
Medical Laboratory Assistant 506
Nursing & Continuing Care 23,896
Occupational Therapy/Physiotherapist 6,157
Pharmacy Technician 3,240
Public Areas/Student Study 9,870
Shared Classroom & Labs 36,813
Student Association 2.045
Wet Lab/Support - Lockers 1,776

Architect: Stantec Architecture
Construction start: 2006
Construction finish: 2009


























Webcam (image refreshes every 30 minutes between 8:00 AM - 5:30 PM, Monday - Friday ) - VCC's School of Health Sciences building under construction

[excel]

nice.

[Architype]

Photo by myself Dec 7th. There are two more floors to be added. The design is not bad.

[excel]

Lots of new schools being built: VCC expansion, SFU expansion, BCIT Aerospace just finished. Any others?

[mr.x]

^ the new green library at Langara.

[SFUVancouver]

It's a good place to invest the public's money when times are good. These aren't vanity projects either, if you follow my drift, but honest bricks and mortar additions to these institutions. The only project on the horizon that strays from the realm of conventional bricks and mortar academic buildings is CIRS - UBC's Centre for Interactive Research in Sustainability. I made a thread about it (link).

I like the VCC building. It has been interesting to see it rise. It definately has that academic institutional look but "that look" is so much better today than it has been in the past.

[mr.x]

^ will they ever demolish or renovate the existing VCC building facing Broadway?

[mr.x]

taken by SFU Vancouver:



taken March 27th, 2008.

[Nutterbug]

^ That building looks close to the Skytrain station.

I hope they actually built over the parking lot that separated it from VCC-Clark Stn. It seemed unjustified that the drivers would get a closer walk to campus than the train commuters, not to mention positioning the station far away from Broadway, where it could have been of more use to a lot more people.

[Architype]

Here's an update from March 8th, not as recent as the one posted above, but from a different angle.
The next phase is supposed to be a similar building built on the existing parking lot.

credit: my photo

[radacal]

just to clarify, the next phase is to be built to the east of this building (where the construction trailers are presently located)

there are master plans which shows more buildings on the parking lot to the north but whether those will ever proceed.....

[Architype]

VCC construction, update June 15-08

[flight_from_kamakura]

thanks dude for the pic. really really liking this (not as much as i like gregor, but yeah, pretty close *wink*)

[Architype]

The VCC building was completed this year, and I just happened to have pictures.






(all photos by me)

[mr.x]

^ looks nice, though i had an impression it would be bigger than that.

[osirisboy]

nice lookin building. i would love to see that parking lot beside disappear soon.

[osirisboy]

Originally Posted by radacal

just to clarify, the next phase is to be built to the east of this building (where the construction trailers are presently located)

there are master plans which shows more buildings on the parking lot to the north but whether those will ever proceed.....

does anyone have thee master plans and can post them on here?

[madog222]

8 storey, 310,000sqft building for the NW corner of the campus where the surface lot currently is. This is the new Centre for Clean Energy and Automotive Innovation: https://vancouversun.com/news/b-c-to...d-clean-energy

https://www.shapeyourcity.ca/1111-e-7-ave




Images from Stantec Architecture https://www.shapeyourcity.ca/1111-e-7-ave

[LeftCoaster]

Saw this last week, glad it's out for public review already, it's a great looking addition to VCC.

[fredinno]

Do we still not know who bought 1155 E 6th Ave?
Seems like a good place for eventual future VCC expansion, since there's not that much room at the rest of VCC once this lot is built on.