Inflationary pressures have ballooned Fredericton’s costs of replacing all outdated infrastructure, also referred to as the infrastructure deficit, to $321.4 million.
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The federal and New Brunswick governments will invest more than $13.3 million to support the construction of three housing projects in Miramichi, including the East Side Affordable Housing Development (ESAH) project.
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Two projects by the Government of Canada have increased the capacity of New Brunswick’s engineers, land-use planning professionals, and environmental non-government organizations to adapt to climate change in the buildings sector through education, training, and certification.
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David Verbeek, a Canadian designer, researcher, and urbanist working with the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) in Rotterdam, Netherlands, has received the Prix de Rome in Architecture – Emerging Practitioners award from the Canada Council for the Arts. The organization also recently announced several other architectural awards.
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The University of New Brunswick (UNB) has opened a new kinesiology building at its Fredericton campus. This $36-million building will create a research cluster focused on health, wellness, physical fitness, and health promotion.
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Those wanting more information on recent updates to the Concrete Design Handbook and CSA A23.3-14 can attend any of a series of seminars on the subject this fall.
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Last month, three New Brunswick design firms were honoured with 2014 Lieutenant Governor’s Awards.
Every three years, the Lieutenant Governor’s Award of Excellence in Architecture is chosen by a jury of industry experts, and presented to recognize an important architectural contribution to a community. This year, Stantec Architecture, formally Architecture 2000, was recognized for the Emergency Response Services & Town Hall Facilities project in Sackville.
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The 2400 residents of Grand Manan Island, located in the Bay of Fundy, are now able to skate year-round on the community’s first indoor ice rink funded by government and the community.
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Located on Mount Allison University’s campus in Sackville, N.B., the Owens Art Gallery is the oldest university art gallery in Canada.1 Officially opened in 1895, the gallery was designed in the elegant Beaux-Arts style by highly regarded Toronto-based architect, Edmund Burke (Figure 1). Locally quarried and fabricated olive sandstone was used to construct the traditional mass masonry exterior walls, and decorative terra cotta friezes bearing the names of famous artists were incorporated within the front and side elevations and supported on circular sandstone columns.
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