Located at the gateway to the Ontario Veterinary College, the Pathobiology and Animal Health Laboratory Building houses instruction laboratories and lecture halls. The four-floor concrete structure and mechanical penthouse features a cladding treatment of anodized aluminum panels, curtainwall, and brick veneer.
The Simplot Plant II expansion was executed utilizing a fast-track design-build delivery model. Our scope of work was for the engineering, procurement, construction, and pre-commissioning of the facility and included installation and tie-ins of all process equipment.
Bird, in partnership with EPCOR and Ontario Power Generation (OPG), successfully delivered the new Darlington Water Treatment Plant—a critical infrastructure project ensuring a reliable supply of pharmaceutical-quality demineralized water to OPG’s nuclear steam systems for the next 30 years. This 2,800 sq. m. facility, located at the secure Darlington Nuclear Generating Station, was strategically designed and built outside the protected area, allowing operations to continue uninterrupted at the existing plant.
Intended to house the 36 Service Battalion, 36 Signal Regiment and 33 Field Ambulance, The Princess Louise Fusiliers and The Halifax Rifles reserve units; The Willow Park Armoury is made up of a broad range of spaces including a drill hall, classrooms, offices, vehicle maintenance bays, training simulators, small arms trainer, weapons storage, and associated support spaces.
The Stadacona Drill Shed, located in Halifax, Nova Scotia, is a state-of-the-art facility designed to consolidate the Seamanship Division training and Drill Shed activities. This new 102,000 sq. ft. facility includes offices, classrooms, training spaces, and a large drill hall. The facility is divided into three distinct zones: a naval boarding training area dedicated to specialized training and simulators for naval boarding operations, a ceremonial drill hall section designed for ceremonial drills and other large-scale activities, and an instructional/office zone that includes classrooms and office spaces for instructional purposes and administrative work.
Fort Hills is the largest open pit mine currently under construction in Alberta. Bird is completing the piling, foundations, earthworks, underground piping, and electrical systems for the ore preparation plant (OPP) and the extraction and tailings plant (E&T). At the OPP site, Bird performed the largest mass pour at Fort Hills to date, placing 3,670 […]
The exterior elements of the Riverway Golf Clubhouse include a glass entrance canopy accented by exposed glulam columns and beams. Once inside, the interior banquet room showcases a 40-foot vaulted ceiling. Prior to construction, Bird faced the challenge of coordinating the tight fit of the complex geothermal, mechanical, and electrical systems beneath the building. The […]
The AMS Student Nest is a new student union building (SUB) sitting at the heart of the University of British Columbia campus. Working on a constrained site, Bird built the five-storey, mixed-use building between the existing SUB and the new alumni building while ensuring all deliveries were handled on a just-in-time basis. The LEED®registered Platinum […]
The building includes a five-storey atrium and a showstopping wood staircase. The facility provides learning spaces for more than 7,000 students, including three lecture theatres ranging in size from 70 to 350 seats, leading-edge wet laboratories, clean room laboratories, and high headroom laboratories with two- and five-tonne overhead cranes for large-scale experiments. The wet labs […]
The Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre (IRSHDC) is a unique addition to the University of British Columbia’s campus, boasting a 6,500-square-metre auditorium-style, bowl-shaped landscape and copper foil membrane roof system.
