Research Advancement Centre 2 | 12 m | 3 fl

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Research Advancement Centre 2
475 Wes Graham Way, University of Waterloo Research and Technology Park, Waterloo
Developer: Cooper Design/Build (http://www.coopercon.com/)
http://www.rtpark.uwaterloo.ca/map/index.html

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Recapping
Cooper Construction to Design/Build Second Research Advancement Centre for University of Waterloo, Ontario
Phase II of the project will incorporate three floors of laboratory and office space. The building will feature hydroponic heating and cooling with central computerized BMS system.

Oakville, Ontario. July 14th, 2009: Cooper Construction Limited of Oakville, Ontario is to commence design/build construction of the 68,000 sq.ft. Research Advancement Centre Phase II, located in the University of Waterloo Business Park, north of the Central campus.

The Phase II building will closely resemble the Phase I building completed by Cooper Construction in January 2008.

William Cooper Sr, President and CEO, stated: “With Phase One of the project successfully completed a little over a year ago, we’re very pleased to be commencing Phase Two. This is an interesting project that will serve the Canadian research community for many years to come.”

Three floors of combined office and laboratory space will locate offices on the building’s perimeter, with multi-use laboratory space on three floors in the building’s core, including one 2000 sq.ft. two-storey lab. The lab space is designed for separation into up to 14 labs with independent HVAC and lighting. A central service area links all lab space to the penthouse mechanical space, with provision for easy installation of dedicated HVAC and ventilation equipment for special purposes.

The heating and ventilation system is designed to accommodate fume hoods to the labs, with hydroponic heating and cooling to offices and labs and a central computerized BMS system.

Each of the three floors can be set up independently with dedicated lunch rooms, meeting rooms, computer rooms and washrooms. The third floor has a distinctive overhanging premium office area on the south and west sides to accommodate the dedicated needs of the third floor tenant.

The building will have steel frame structure, with pre-cast concrete floor slabs, architectural pre-cast, distinctive three colour curtainwall glazing, one drive-in door with loading dock and two grade-level dock doors. A screened patio will provide secluded breakout space adjacent to the property’s extensive landscaped reserve.

http://www.coopercon.com/newscentre/2009/07/13/cooper-construction-to-designbuild-for-university-of-waterloo/ (http://www.coopercon.com/newscentre/2009/07/13/cooper-construction-to-designbuild-for-university-of-waterloo/)


Waterloo research park growing
New building will house UW's quantum computing, nanotechnology work

July 17, 2009
Chuck Howitt
RECORD STAFF

WATERLOO - Work is to begin shortly on an $11-million building in the University of Waterloo's Research and Technology Park.

The building, which will be the seventh to go up in the park, will house overflow staff and space needed by UW's Institute for Quantum Computing and the Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology.

The building is Phase 2 of the Research Advancement Centre, intended as a place where research activities at UW can be developed prior to commercialization. Phase 1 of the Research Advance Centre opened in January 2008, and the second building will be located just to the west.

"When we first designed Research Advancement Centre I, we had in mind twinning it, so this is the twin occurring,'' UW president David Johnston said yesterday.

The new building will be about the same size as the first phase -- 70,000 square feet on three floors -- and have the same look and functionality.

The Institute for Quantum Computing and the nanotechnology institute are currently in the Research Advancement Centre I and will also move into the second phase.

"They are bursting at the seams,'' Johnston said. The long-term plan is to have those two departments move into the $160-million Mike and Ophelia Lazaridis Quantum-Nano Centre now under construction on UW's main campus. It is scheduled for completion in 2011.

The present thinking is that quantum computing and nanotechnology, which involve the study of atoms and molecules, "are growing so quickly'' they will need some space on both the north campus in the research and technology park, as well as on the south or main campus in the Quantum-Nano Centre, Johnston said. If the university finds it can accommodate all staff and activities in the Quantum-Nano Centre, the two research centres will return to their initial purpose.

That purpose is to foster "university-related research activities as opposed to activities that Open Text or Sybase or others pursue in the research and technology park,'' he said.

The construction schedule for the Research Advancement Centre II is a tight 11 months, Johnston said, but the new building is a duplicate of Phase 1 and will be erected by the same contractor.

It will feature offices on the perimeter and laboratory space in the core, including a 2,000-square-foot, two-storey lab.

Phase 2 is being funded primarily by anonymous private donors "who believe very much in the quality of research at the University of Waterloo,'' he said. Other funding will come from the university itself.

Despite the difficult economic times, Johnston said the university is happy with the progress of the 49-hectare park which opened in 2002 as a joint venture of UW, all levels of government and the private sector.

Intended to foster innovation and create information technology jobs, the park currently houses six buildings. They include Open Text's headquarters, the Sybase Canada building, the Accelerator Building, TechTown whose tenants include Google, a health club and a credit union, the Research Advancement Centre and the InnoTech building, which was recently occupied by Research In Motion.

The original plan was to have the InnoTech building accommodate a number of tenants. But with RIM moving in, another multi-tenant building may be constructed, Johnston said. The long-term plan is to have about a dozen buildings in the park, he added.

UW owns the land in the park. It also owns the two Research Advancement Centres. Other buildings are privately owned either by the occupant, such as Open Text, or by the developer who erected them. For example, the Sybase building is owned by Marsland Centre Ltd. Private tenants rent the land from UW under a 49-year renewable lease.

chowitt@therecord.com

http://news.therecord.com/article/570980 (http://news.therecord.com/article/570980)

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Photos by Leaffan October 18, 2009

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Photos by Leaffan November 29, 2009

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Pictures taken by me today Jan 24,2010

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April 14, 2010

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Construction warnings, and a new building
UW Daily Bulletin | Friday May 14, 2010 | http://www.bulletin.uwaterloo.ca/2010/may/14fr.html

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Finally, the university’s newest building will be open for use next week. It’s Research Advancement Centre 2, a virtual clone of the nearby RAC1, which was built in 2008 (http://www.bulletin.uwaterloo.ca/2008/apr/28mo.html). Like the original, it has three storeys and about 70,000 square feet of space. The double building is at 475 Wes Graham Way in the north campus research and technology park. The UW board of governors gave approval last spring (http://www.bulletin.uwaterloo.ca/2009/apr/07tu.html) for “phase 2” of the project, which has been built by Cooper Construction. The $11 million cost was paid by private developers, and they’ll own the building after the university occupies it for six years, says vice-president (administration and finance) Dennis Huber. Like RAC1, it’s intended as a staging site for research activities that need space temporarily and will eventually be moving into other quarters — such as the Quantum-Nano Centre, now under construction on the central campus.

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