New housing units at CFB Esquimalt expected to cost $86M: DND

[daftandbarmy]

No word on replacing the pub....



Building 355 units of military accommodations at CFB Esquimalt near the intersection of Colville and Admirals roads is expected to cost about $86 million, says the Department of National Defence.

Construction began at the former Upper Naden sports field last month, and the first of five two-storey buildings in the North Naden Accommodations is set to be finished early next year, with the rest to be completed by 2030.

Bird Design-Build Construction Inc. was awarded a $19.9-million contract in October 2024 for the first building.

The design-build contract will be amended over time to include the other four wood-construction modular buildings, department spokesperson Kened Sadiku said in a statement, noting the project will cost an estimated $86 million. There were previously plans to build a 400-unit temporary accommodations complex on the sports field, but DND announced it was building permanent accommodations shortly before crews broke ground on the project

New housing units at CFB Esquimalt expected to cost $86M: DND

The first of five buildings housing the North Naden Accommodations is set to be finished early next year, with the rest to be completed by 2030.

www.timescolonist.com

 

[rmc_wannabe]

No word on replacing the pub....



Building 355 units of military accommodations at CFB Esquimalt near the intersection of Colville and Admirals roads is expected to cost about $86 million, says the Department of National Defence.

Construction began at the former Upper Naden sports field last month, and the first of five two-storey buildings in the North Naden Accommodations is set to be finished early next year, with the rest to be completed by 2030.

Bird Design-Build Construction Inc. was awarded a $19.9-million contract in October 2024 for the first building.

The design-build contract will be amended over time to include the other four wood-construction modular buildings, department spokesperson Kened Sadiku said in a statement, noting the project will cost an estimated $86 million. There were previously plans to build a 400-unit temporary accommodations complex on the sports field, but DND announced it was building permanent accommodations shortly before crews broke ground on the project

New housing units at CFB Esquimalt expected to cost $86M: DND

The first of five buildings housing the North Naden Accommodations is set to be finished early next year, with the rest to be completed by 2030.

www.timescolonist.com

Oh no, how dare they checks notes build infrastructure at cost and using approved methods.

 

[McG]

We need to be building accommodations all across the country. We could save time and money if someone centrally produced a set of designs that were built everywhere instead of each base contracting for a unique design on every new build that is required to meet the same departmental living accommodations standard.

 

[KevinB]

Sighs when reads ‘wood construction modular’.

 

[rmc_wannabe]

Sighs when reads ‘wood construction modular’.

Hey now, someone needs to prop up the softwood lumber industry, might as well be DND.

That's a future DND problem....

 

[Furniture]

Sighs when reads ‘wood construction modular’.

Its pretty much standard now in new low-rise construction.

It gets badly needed housing units built fast, and avoids "bespoke" options the CAF loves to add...

 

[KevinB]

Its pretty much standard now in new low-rise construction.

It gets badly needed housing units built fast, and avoids "bespoke" options the CAF loves to add...

One can have standard concrete and rebar forms - that offer much greater durability.

 

[SeaKingTacco]

One can have standard concrete and rebar forms - that offer much greater durability.

That is coming, but is 5 years out. We need this now.

 

[YZT580]

One can have standard concrete and rebar forms - that offer much greater durability.

I saw them in Moscow and East Berlin built by the lowest bidder. Really nice.

 

[Furniture]

One can have standard concrete and rebar forms - that offer much greater durability.

We have been demolishing "durable" buildings for years because they no longer meet requirements, or have failed in ways other than the base structure.

Building in a standard material, that is fast and efficient, solves the biggest issue. We can worry about durability in 40 years.

 

[OldSolduer]

One can have standard concrete and rebar forms - that offer much greater durability.

I saw them in Moscow and East Berlin built by the lowest bidder. Really nice.

If we don’t solve the housing crisis that’s what everyone will eventually be living in.

 

[Colin Parkinson]

We have been demolishing "durable" buildings for years because they no longer meet requirements, or have failed in ways other than the base structure.

Building in a standard material, that is fast and efficient, solves the biggest issue. We can worry about durability in 40 years.

There is going to be a Base Housing person in 40 years cursing you and all of us.

 

[Halifax Tar]

We need to be building accommodations all across the country. We could save time and money if someone centrally produced a set of designs that were built everywhere instead of each base contracting for a unique design on every new build that is required to meet the same departmental living accommodations standard.

Then plans for the mods must be somewhere reachable....

 

[Oldgateboatdriver]

I saw them in Moscow and East Berlin built by the lowest bidder. Really nice.

You are confusing the choice of material with the communist regime's flair for avant-garde architecture.

 

[Gordon Dundas/]

Time for more bog standard temporary buildings. I suspect that some of those WW II structures may last to just shortly after the heat death of the sun.

 

[Czech_pivo]

I saw them in Moscow and East Berlin built by the lowest bidder. Really nice.

Yup, lots throughout the Czech Rep when I lived there - Panelak Palaces they were called - meaning 'panel houses' and they were crap.

 

[Czech_pivo]

If we don’t solve the housing crisis that’s what everyone will eventually be living in.

The lowering and removing of hundreds of thousands of temp workers and international 'students' will go along way in removing our housing crisis. Positive impacts have already occurred around this.

 

[Halifax Tar]

Time for more bog standard temporary buildings. I suspect that some of those WW II structures may last to just shortly after the heat death of the sun.

H-Huts and pot belly stoves!

 

[YZT580]

One can have standard concrete and rebar forms - that offer much greater durability.

by the way, did you know that the Empire State Building is built on wooden piles? It's good stuff and with the new manufactured beams it is as durable as concrete and just as strong.

 

[KevinB]

by the way, did you know that the Empire State Building is built on wooden piles?

Yes it was a very common method - but isn’t used any more for several good reasons.

It's good stuff and with the new manufactured beams it is as durable as concrete and just as strong.

Concrete comes in many different grades - you will not get wood as durable as you can get with reinforced M55 concrete.