Red River Community College Auto/Diesel Shop
Winnipeg, MB
This Governor General’s Medal-winning auto/diesel facility established new state-of-the-art directions for clean air environments in industrial workspaces. Energy consumption was dramatically reduced from 1800 megajoules/m³ (normal to such facilities) to 850 megajoules/m³, generating an annual 50% energy saving.
This 5600m² building includes dedicated shops/classrooms, staff rooms, wash facilities, and diesel and auto dynometer rooms. The classrooms are acoustically isolated from the high noise levels of the live shops by using precast concrete and acoustical metal cladding. The classrooms are located on a mezzanine overlooking the shops. An elevated pedestrian bridge links the auto diesel shop to the remainder of the campus and adjacent paint shop. Vehicle airlocks at each end of the internal driveway provide reduced energy consumption by eliminating the ‘open-door’ effect.
Guided by the functional program, each component is designed to express its purpose. It is the collective expression and ordering of these components that generates the building’s purpose and thus its form by creating a shop having qualities of firmness, scale, texture, and light.
Structure
Wide flange columns, tubular steel box trusses. 12″ hollow core planks.
Skin
Curtain wall, steel stud, control grid, glazed and corrugated aluminum panels.
Mechanical
All air variable volume system, with large make up air to counteract air lost by vehicular exhaust; exhaust air directly to outside; pressurized airlines; gas lines for equipment.
Electrical
Variety of power supplies for operation of shop equipment; electrical wiring passed along corridors in raceways. Equipment such as circuit boxes and clocks are attached to and powered through pipe standards.
Fitments
“Acustadeck” – a regular structural flooring panel with holes for sound waves backed by sound deadening acoustic material was used as finished wall and ceiling elements by attach to the underside of hollow core planks with vibration isolation clips.
Melamine and sheetrock panels screwed directly to steel studs for partitions. Hardening agent put into concrete floor to withstand heavy impacts of dropped objects.
Action Strategies
Equipment was carefully analyzed to reduce the programmed height requirements, thereby reducing the overall building cube and saving energy and operating costs. Vehicle vestibules at each end of the building provide air locks preventing both doors from being opened simultaneously. This contributed significantly to the overall energy savings on this facility.
Key Information
Completed
1984
Project Cost
$4M USD
Building Area
5600 m²/60,000 ft²
Awards
RAIC Millennium Award 2000
Governor General’s Medal 1986
MAA Award of Excellence 1987
Publications
Canadian Architect – Sept. 1995
The Globe and Mail – 1988
Architectural Record – March 1986
RAIC Journal – 1986
Red River Community College Auto/Diesel Shop
Winnipeg, MB
This Governor General’s Medal-winning auto/diesel facility established new state-of-the-art directions for clean air environments in industrial workspaces. Energy consumption was dramatically reduced from 1800 megajoules/m³ (normal to such facilities) to 850 megajoules/m³, generating an annual 50% energy saving.
This 5600m² building includes dedicated shops/classrooms, staff rooms, wash facilities, and diesel and auto dynometer rooms. The classrooms are acoustically isolated from the high noise levels of the live shops by using precast concrete and acoustical metal cladding. The classrooms are located on a mezzanine overlooking the shops. An elevated pedestrian bridge links the auto diesel shop to the remainder of the campus and adjacent paint shop. Vehicle airlocks at each end of the internal driveway provide reduced energy consumption by eliminating the ‘open-door’ effect.
Guided by the functional program, each component is designed to express its purpose. It is the collective expression and ordering of these components that generates the building’s purpose and thus its form by creating a shop having qualities of firmness, scale, texture, and light.
Structure
Wide flange columns, tubular steel box trusses. 12″ hollow core planks.
Skin
Curtain wall, steel stud, control grid, glazed and corrugated aluminum panels.
Mechanical
All air variable volume system, with large make up air to counteract air lost by vehicular exhaust; exhaust air directly to outside; pressurized airlines; gas lines for equipment.
Electrical
Variety of power supplies for operation of shop equipment; electrical wiring passed along corridors in raceways. Equipment such as circuit boxes and clocks are attached to and powered through pipe standards.
Fitments
“Acustadeck” – a regular structural flooring panel with holes for sound waves backed by sound deadening acoustic material was used as finished wall and ceiling elements by attach to the underside of hollow core planks with vibration isolation clips.
Melamine and sheetrock panels screwed directly to steel studs for partitions. Hardening agent put into concrete floor to withstand heavy impacts of dropped objects.
Action Strategies
Equipment was carefully analyzed to reduce the programmed height requirements, thereby reducing the overall building cube and saving energy and operating costs. Vehicle vestibules at each end of the building provide air locks preventing both doors from being opened simultaneously. This contributed significantly to the overall energy savings on this facility.
Key Information
Completed
1984
Project Cost
$4M USD
Building Area
5600 m²/60,000 ft²
Awards
RAIC Millennium Award 2000
Governor General’s Medal 1986
MAA Award of Excellence 1987
Publications
Canadian Architect – Sept. 1995
The Globe and Mail – 1988
Architectural Record – March 1986
RAIC Journal – 1986
