2010 Engineer Wood Advocate Award - F+E
Prairie Wood Design Awards
SAIT Parkade Skylight
Project facts
- Architect
- Bing Thom Architects
- General Contractor
- PCL Construction Management
- Location
- Calgary, AB, Canada
- Status
- Completed 2009
- Our involvement
- Engineer of Record (Gerald Epp)
Engineer-Build
Photography & imagery
- Completed photography
- Nic Lehoux
- Diagrams / renders
- Diagrams: StructureCraft; Renders: Bing Thom Architects
The 5,000 sq.ft. timber structure supports a glazed skylight system over the entrance to the new parkade for the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology. The tilted and faceted pyramidal forms, complete with a 42' cantilever, are constructed of shaped LSL moment frames with hidden connectors and steel spacer pipes. We engineered, pre-fabricated, pre-finished and erected all elements in this structure.
