Project Summary
This was a design-build project that included the construction of a new $15,000,000 five-story modular building to be used as a student housing dormitory at Trinity Western University in Langley, BC. Work provided by Scouten Engineering included the redirection of existing underground utilities, and new potable water, firewater, sanitary and storm connections to the new building. Scouten provided finished grading plans to develop elevations for the finished floor, sidewalks, and parking lot.
Project Description
This was a design-build project that included the construction of a new $15,000,000 five-story modular building to be used as a student housing dormitory at Trinity Western University in Langley, BC.
Work provided by Scouten Engineering included the redirection of existing underground utilities, and new potable water, firewater, sanitary and storm connections to the new building. Scouten provided finished grading plans to develop elevations for the finished floor, sidewalks, and parking lot. There was a very tight timeline between when the contract was awarded and when Students arrived in the fall (9 months). The site for the new building had been previously developed as a parking lot and conflicted with several known and unknown underground utilities.
During construction, several underground utilities were discovered and had to be dealt with in a timely matter to stay on schedule. Another difficult factor that had to be overcome was the existing site soils. The previously developed parking lot was built over stiff clay that capped very fine soils. Scouten was required to choose a finished elevation for the building balancing the cost implications of sub-excavating the material below the clay crust and placing the building to high making for problematic exterior grading.