Concordia MB Building - 15 étages (2009)

[monctezuma]

A sneak peak of the JMSB building:

Video: http://news.concordia.ca/main_story/014966.shtml

Photos: http://news.concordia.ca/main_story/014966.shtml#photos

Fast Facts: http://news.concordia.ca/main_story/014966.shtml#fastfacts

 

Impressionnant !

 

Je ne savais pas qu'il y avait des panneaux solaires. L'intérieur est vraiment beau aussi et bien, très bien organisé.

[MTLskyline]

The building is now open to the general public (even if you're not a student they won't card you or anything unless you are using a service there). The building is fantastic from the inside. I recommend checking it out if you're nearby.

[Atze]

 

J'ai voulu prendre quelques photos pour le forum, mais le garde de sécurité n'a pas du tout apprécié... j'en ai qu'une seule.

 

[flight_from_kamakura]

Concordia's new business tower has green ideas - and came in under budget

 

 

By Lynn Moore, The Gazette

 

MONTREAL--Plugged into the sun's power via an innovative solar wall and into Montreal's street life by various design features, the new building housing Concordia University's John Molson School of Business is set to open its doors.

 

Apparently it won't be a moment too soon for the school's faculty and 8,500 students who have been shuffling between buildings at Concordia's downtown and Loyola campuses for years.

 

"It's the first time I have seen students eager for classes to start," Sanjay Sharma, the school's dean, said yesterday at the outset of a media tour of the building at the corner of Guy St. and de Maisonneuve Blvd.

 

Sept. 8, the beginning of the 2009-2010 school year, will mark the first time that staff, students and faculty of the school will be under the same roof and in one building.

 

According to Concordia officials and the architects who designed the 17-level building, it's a roof and a building ideally suited to one of Canada's largest business schools and an academic venue increasingly focused on sustainable development.

 

Not only was the building completed on time and "comfortably" under its $118.5-million budget, it is expected to qualify for silver certification in the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design program. The building will use grey water to lower fresh-water use, have low-flow plumbing fixtures and feature a "green roof" community garden.

 

Students, whose academic programs include social and sustainability issues and whose programs may require mandatory ethics courses, will be offered only fair-trade coffee on site. The wireless building, which is connected by tunnel to the métro network and hugs the de Maisonneuve bike path, has no indoor parking facilities for cars, but will have interior and exterior parking for bicycles.

 

Already dubbed the JM building - as in John Molson - it is the "non-identical twin" of Concordia's Integrated Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Complex which is known as the EV building, located on the east side of Guy. They, along with Concordia's Guy Metro building, were designed by the same consortium of Toronto and Montreal-based architects.

 

While the EV looks toward the river, the JM looks toward the mountain, architect Marianne McKenna said yesterday.

 

Both buildings rely heavily on glass walls and terraces, and they serve to bring natural light into the structures and link the interior with the cityscape.

 

"We have always talked about the sidewalks as being part of the campus," McKenna said. For instance, the EV was designed to overhang the widened city sidewalk and shelter passersby as well as the folks lined up at bus stops outside the Guy métro station.

 

"Concordia is a very street-based urban institution," architect Bruce Kuwabara said. So it is fitting that the high-density JM building opens onto a "street that is a spectacle of movement."

 

Members of the consortium toured more than a dozen business schools to consider classroom configurations and how technology could be best integrated into Concordia's new school.

 

"It probably has one of the most diverse range of classroom spaces" of North American business schools, Kuwabara said.

 

They range from classrooms that will hold between 12 to 16 people, to boardroom-style rooms, a 150-seat amphitheatre and a 300-seat auditorium. There is also a "trading room" that will replicate an active brokerage firm as well as an array of study rooms, study areas and lounges.

 

"We can seat 3,500 students at any one time in this building," Sharma said. Another 2,000 students can be added if the university converts several "shell floors" which aren't being fully used, he said.

 

A work by artist Geneviève Cadieux graces the building's exterior face on de Maisonneuve. Cadieux, whose illuminated lips outside the Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art have become a Montreal icon, played with the concept of "ivy league" universities with her "Lierre sur pierre" work which features ivy fashioned from mirrored anodized metal on a limestone wall.

 

Visible from the sidewalk is an interior work by artist Pierre Blancette. Entitled "La Nacelle," it envelops the exterior walls of a "floating" room that hangs over the building's ground-floor atrium.

 

The building's solar wall is an innovative single facade surface that generates electricity and heat. Part of the NSERC Solar Buildings Research Network, the project demonstrates state-of-the-art solar technology and is the first installation of its particular configuration.

 

The wall's photovoltaic panels can generate up to 25 kilowatts of electricity and 75 kilowatts of heat and is currently the largest photovoltaic installation in Quebec.

 

About one half of the building's budget came from the provincial government, with the balance coming from Quebec's business community, Sharma said. While he was delighted to say that the project came in under budget, he would not say by how much.

 

lmoore@thegazette.canwest.com

http://www.montrealgazette.com/technology/Concordia+tower+green+under+budget/1919306/story.html

[acpnc]

Une très belle réussite à tous les points de vue. Montréal recèle d'une foule de trésors architecturaux méconnus et ces pavillons s'ajoutent à une collection déjà impressionnante. De plus je me réjouis pour les étudiants qui auront un environnement d'études hautement inspirant, confortable et convivial, tout ça en plein centre-ville, le coeur de l'action montréalaise.

[yarabundi]

Et tout ça en-deça du budget prévu !!

[Habsfan]

Tout les projets devraient être faits par Concordia. Non seulement est ce que leurs projets arrivent à temps, mais ils coutent moins cher que prévu!

 

If they can do, there is absolutely no valid reason why others can't either!!

[MTLskyline]

Tout les projets devraient être faits par Concordia. Non seulement est ce que leurs projets arrivent à temps, mais ils coutent moins cher que prévu!

 

If they can do, there is absolutely no valid reason why others can't either!!

 

That's exactly what you want to see a business school achieve. They should practice what they preach, and they have done just that. There's no reason for bad money/time management from a business school.

[yarabundi]

Rappelez-vous que l'exécution du QDS n'a pas connu de dépassements de coûts ni de délais !!

[MTLskyline]

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