PROGRAMMING & FEASIBILITY STUDIES

Chernoff Thompson Architects team is frequently engaged to provide facility programs and feasibility studies for projects in which the firm is retained as the architect. Our facility programs provide the Client with an enhanced service and bring comprehensive understanding of user needs and facilitate approaches that explore ideas "outside the box".

Chernoff Thompson Architects was engaged by the University of Victoria to prepare a program document for the new Science Building in which functions and area requirements for each user group were assessed. This report allows the design team to design a facility that satisfies the functional program for the participants.

Chernoff Thompson Architects was engaged by Simon Fraser University to prepare a program document for the new TASC 2 multi-user laboratory facility in Burnaby. The task was to establish a facility program which describes the functions and area requirements for each tenant group. The work included preparing a needs assessment which includes a brief review of users present and future needs and wishes, lab requirements and an inventory of lab equipment which occupies the new spaces.

Chernoff Thompson Architects is currently engaged by Malaspina University-College to prepare a program document for the Integrated Science Centre. The program will be for a new 4,250 sm facility and western campus redevelopment on the campus, for science, teaching and research.

We assisted the University of British Columbia in the preparation of a successful CFI funding application for a new ICICS facility adjacent to the existing ICICS building. The study involved an examination of various development scenarios for the available land to accommodate the new facility, a lecture theatre and classroom and up to 80 cars on site, as well as allowing room for expansion.

The University was contemplating a new 6,040 sm electrical computer engineering addition to the McLeod Building with a potential for commercial users on two floors and academic users on the other floors. The feasibility study explored options on the developable area and integration with the adjacent CEME and McLeod engineering buildings.

The new KAON Factory at the University of British Columbia was to be located at the existing TRIUMF site but would have involved a massive enlargement of the existing Meson Facility, undertaking particle physics research utilizing an underground accelerator ring. On completion, the facility would have been one of only two pion therapy locations in the world and to keep Canada in the forefront of world intermediate energy research. The study provided facility programming, a master plan, and schematic design for several new buildings.

Chernoff Thompson Architects and our Prince George office Bryan Chernoff Thompson Architects provided a feasibility study for a sportsplex facility located on the University of Northern British Columbia campus. The building was a proposal to provide facilities to international university standards for competitive sports. Designed to serve both the university and the local Prince George community, the Sportsplex's facilities were to cater to basketball, volleyball, badminton, soccer, roller hockey, lacrosse, racquetball, track athlete training, climbing and group gatherings.

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