A new addition to the UTSC campus, the 134,216 ft², five storey Highland Hall will provide the campus with additional space dedicated to students and providing community access space. The Perkins & Will’s designed faculty is located between the UTSC Student and the East Arrival Court.

The building will house faculty and administrative offices, student services, lounges and event and study spaces. It will also provide two state-of-the-art tiered classrooms, a technologically advanced Centre for Teaching and Learning for academic skills training, Student Commons, and multi-use. The primary use will be a new home for Social Science departments (political science, sociology, anthropology, human geography and critical development studies) and the Office of the Registrar. The new building boasts a large green roof that is visible from the interior and a Eco Garden.

Commissioning for UTSC’s new building was provided by HRCx. The scope included the commissioning of HVAC, building automation and controls, electrical systems for power distribution & protection and lighting controls. A general review of life safety inline with OBC 3.2.4.6 University Fire Prevention.

HRCx is providing commissioning services for the University of Toronto’s new Centre for Engineering Innovation & Entrepreneurship Building (CEIE). This 108,000 ft² facility designed by Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios in association with Montgomery Sisam Architects is an 8-storey development with two additional basement levels. Located at 55 St. George Street, this ‘smart building’ features state-of-the-art collaborative classrooms and fabrication facilities, in addition to the University’s Entrepreneurship Hatchery, the Centre for Global Engineering and the Institute for Leadership Education in Engineering. Slated to open in 2017, the CEIE is being heralded as one of the top engineering facilities for teaching and research worldwide.

HRCx provided commissioning services for the Medical Science Building (MSB) Renovations. The overall scope of the MSB labs renovation and commissioning was divided into three phases: MSB Labs Renovation stage 1, MSB lab and Support Room Renovations, and MSB Anatomy Teaching Labs and Morgue Area Renovation, located at 1 King’s College Circle in downtown Toronto, Ontario. The total area of the renovations is 60, 148 ft².

HRCx provided LEED Commissioning services for the University of Toronto’s Deerfield Hall, a $45 million project designed by Perkins + Will Architects that is Phase 1 of the replacement of the former University of Toronto Mississauga Campus North Building.  This 112,000 ft² facility houses the University’s mathematical and computational science departments, as well as psychology and rehearsal space for the theatre and drama program. The facility has been designed to achieve LEED Silver certification. In addition to LEED Commissioning services, HRCx developed a Recommissioning Manual for the facility’s Central Utility Plant. 

HRCx provided Commissioning Services for University of Toronto Ramsay Wright Teaching Labs Renewal.

The Ramsay Wright Teaching Labs is a six floor building plus mechanical penthouse. The total area of the renovation is approximately is 49,514 ft². The facility was built in the late 1960’s.

Project scope included upgrades to the first and second floor, upgrades to the fixtures and finishes, including the addition of fume hood. New student spaces and offices for department staff have been provided on each floor. Part of the third floor renovation include the addition of sprinklers in the work area. Air conditioning was added for two floors of the building utilizing a new AHU and cooling tower. Washrooms on three floors were also upgraded and sprinklers added in the area of work.

The renovation included the upgrade of mechanical and electrical services, as well as existing AHUs, and the provision of a new emergency power transfer switch, transformer and power panel.

Located at 17000 Dufferin St, King City, Ontario, the University of Toronto’s Koffler Scientific Reserve Facility Master Planning aims to provide a new LEED® / Net-Zero facility which includes flexibility, private accommodations, shared social, dining, and learning spaces for researchers, students, faculty, and visitors, in a field research and teaching setting that is currently not available at KSR or any other of the U of T campuses. HRCx is providing commissioning services for the KSR Facilities Master Plan. Our team’s scope included the administering the commissioning process for Envelope, Enhanced, Monitoring-based Commissioning, and Fundamental Commissioning.

The project is targeting net-zero-carbon, net-zero-energy performance LEED Gold Certification following LEED v4 and is targeting 6 points under the Enhanced Commissioning process, for which the team is preparing and compiling the commissioning-related LEED v4 documentation. Both mechanical and electrical systems, building automation and controls and life safety will be commissioned in addition to Photovoltaic and renewable energy systems.

The College Park School is a 2-storey pre-Kindergarten to Grade 9 facility within a new residential development in Lloydminster, Alberta. With a capacity of up to 600 students, the 79,960 ft² school is comprised of 5 learning pods connected by corridors, project spaces, a gymnasium, theatre and music room.

Having provided LEED Fundamental and Enhanced Commissioning for this project, HRCx was tasked with the responsibility of ensuring that the building’s systems met several environmental standards, including the Energy and Atmosphere Prerequisite 1 (EA Pr1) and a LEED silver certification target. 

École St. Thomas is a 2-storey, 62,000 ft² building valued at $23-million and located in Lloydminster, AB. Completed in 2013, the facility houses a French immersion school accommodating students from Kindergarten to Grade 7. The school includes classrooms, preschool rooms, a gymnasium, music room, food lab, space for future development, 8 portable classrooms and an adjoining daycare. HRCx provided LEED Fundamental Commissioning services for this project, ensuring that it met the qualifications to boast a LEED silver certification status. 

HRCx provided commissioning services for the new construction of a 3-storey building including library and gymnasium. Services encompassed the commissioning of energy efficient design, the use of natural gas for heating and domestic water and employing the use of outdoor air for free cooling and heat recovery.

Completion Date: 2013

HRCx provided commissioning services for the new construction of this 2-storey building including library and gymnasium. Services included commissioning of energy efficient design, use of natural gas for heating and domestic water and employing the use of outdoor air for free cooling and heat recovery.

Completion Date: 2013

HRCx provided commissioning services for the Ernest C. Drury School for the Deaf, which consists of 27 buildings on a site totalling 499,781 ft2, including residential / dormitories, classrooms / school buildings, administration, support / maintenance / trades building and sports / gymnasium.

Completion Date: 2014

HRCx provided commissioning to the new Kindergarten to Grade 8 Molly Brant ES opened to students on Sept. 6, 2016. The $10-million building features modern classrooms and specialized spaces including discovery centres, a kitchen lab and technology room, learning commons (library) area, gym with performance space to provide maximum flexibility, outdoor recreation areas to enhance student health and fitness, day-care facilities to serve families from the community, and multi-use spaces for shared school and community use.

The 49,000 ft² building also features modern electrical systems that efficiently and effectively support 21st century technology, energy efficient heating and lighting systems and allow for greater control and comfort, and accessible features to meet the requirements of the Ontario Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA).

The school brings together the communities of the former First Avenue and Frontenac Public Schools.