- Client
- DCC/TPSGC
- Cost of construction
- N/A
- Area
- 66,575 ft²
- Year of construction
- 2019
LEED Silver
Figurr Architects Collective partnered with Airbus and CAE Inc., mandated by DCC/TPSGC, to provide design and construction administration services for the new fixed-wing search and rescue training centre in British Columbia. Figurr led the design and construction of this state-of-the-art facility, built for the Royal Canadian Airforce’s new C295W search and rescue aircraft fleet.
The training centre contains a large full-sized maintenance training hangar and cockpit systems part-task trainer, a full flight simulator, a cockpit procedural trainer, a sensor station for rear crew training, mission planning, and brief / debrief rooms. Training is supplemented through virtual maintenance trainer stations. The building is also home to 19 Wing’s officers, instructors, and an administration department.
This high-tech training centre is certified LEED Silver.
Figurr acted as the principal consultant, managing a multidisciplinary team of structural, mechanical, electrical, and civil engineers, an independent LEED consultant, and an envelope consultant.
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