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Real Property Recapitalization Program
Location: Ottawa (ON) and various location across Canada
Funding: Ottawa: $10 million; other locations: $12 million
The work, to be undertaken on over 30 buildings across Canada, includes major repairs or replacements to building systems including roofing, interior and exterior wall systems, mechanical and electrical systems and site work and related infrastructure.
The work will contribute to maintaining the buildings in a condition that will allow research to continue in the facilities housed therein. In some cases, the research activities involve precise measurement and calibration work that requires high quality facilities, both in terms of indoor environment as well as building envelope.
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Montreal Road Campus Sewer Separation
Location: Ottawa (ON)
Funding: $12 million
NRC's Montreal Road campus in the east end of the City of Ottawa is serviced by a combined storm and sanitary system, with all of the effluent being directed to a sewage treatment facility. Through this investment, a separate more environmentally sound sewer network will be constructed. The campus is one of the few remaining areas in Ottawa where this arrangement exists.
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Building Energy Retrofit
Location: Ottawa (ON) and other locations across Canada
Funding: Ottawa: $6 million; other locations: $4.22 million
This project will modernize and renew mechanical and electrical systems in three buildings on NRC's Montreal Road Campus in Ottawa, Ontario, as well as five buildings located in other provinces across Canada.
Laboratories and research buildings are very energy intensive facilities, requiring three to eight times more energy than conventional office space. As equipment becomes more sophisticated in response to new technology and requirements, energy consumption steadily increases. This initiative will lead to lower operating and maintenance costs and a more sustainable real property portfolio.
These retrofits also represent an opportunity to complete some renewal of existing mechanical and electrical systems as many systems have surpassed their life cycles.
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100 Sussex Drive Envelope Refurbishment
Location: Ottawa (ON)
Funding: $5.05 million
One hundred Sussex Drive was coined originally as the "temple of science"; the building was the first to be occupied by NRC when it was still a fledgling organization. Constructed in 1932 by the Department of Public Works, it is a Designated Federal Heritage Building.
This project includes extensive repairs to the existing stone façade, replacement of windows and upgrades to interior finishes including walls, floors, and ceilings, while preserving the heritage status of the building.
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Real Property Accommodation Plan
Location: Ottawa (ON)
Funding: $1.65 million
This project involves the renovation of three buildings on the Montreal Road campus to consolidate personnel to improve space efficiencies with a goal of divesting two of these three buildings.
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Flexible Research Facility
Location: Ottawa (ON)
Funding: $3.05 million
This project involves the construction of a flexible, modular research building that can be used to house research programs that have a limited life and space requirement. The modules will be constructed in an identical manner, with a combination of serviced lab space, some with high headroom, and office space, allowing research portfolios to use the space for program work with minimal tenant fit-up.
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Canadian Centre for Housing Technologies (CCHT)
Location: Ottawa (ON)
Funding: $1.3 million
This project involves a major capacity and capability upgrade to this existing facility on NRC's Montreal Road Campus. While the existing Canadian Centre for Housing Technologies has been used exclusively for assessing and demonstrating residential building technologies, the intent of the upgrades is to allow for expansion into new demonstration projects.
The upgrades will include the installation of systems that will bring the Centre to the leading edge for testing of heating, ventilating, and air conditioning (HVAC) equipment, envelope components, renewable energy and control systems, and will provide the necessary upgrades for the assessment and demonstration of intelligent building and smart grid integration technologies. These systems will test how renewable energy sources such as wind and solar can be seamlessly integrated into the existing electrical grid using intelligent load management strategies.
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Uplands Campus Electrical Distribution Upgrade
Location: Ottawa (ON)
Funding: $5.55 million
The Aerospace portfolio conducts its world-leading research at one of NRC's facilities located at Uplands campus. It uses the facility's wind tunnel to test aircraft components and vehicles, and develop air transportation safety standards, both in Canada and internationally. The objective of the project is to build a new 115kv electrical substation that will serve all of the buildings located at Uplands campus. This new substation will prevent unexpected failure of the main electrical substation and allow the aerospace research to continue reliably.
