Telus Garden Office Tower | Vancouver, BC | 2019 to Present
This project was commissioned in 2019 to upgrade the existing visualization platform that was going to be inoperable due to Adobe Flash being deprecated. Starting with compiling all the latest CAD drawings including all the TI work done since the building was inaugurated in 2015, this was a substantial undertaking involving almost thirty levels of occupied prime commercial space. At the time, this was the most complicated mechanical system in the downtown core area, built with a sub-floor plenums instead of the usual ceiling-side solutions. Multiple types of equipment worked in chorus to provide space comfort and my approach was to present space-based equipment grouping instead of presenting equipment individually. For example, perimeter fans (Jaga) were grouped according to hydronic piping, allowing operators to trace which 6-way mixing valve was needed to troubleshoot in case of a complaint from the tenant. Fresh outside air was delivered into the building via variable-air-volume (VAV) boxes embedded in the plenum. Mechanical dampers are shown connected to which thermostat it was programmed to follow and VAV boxes correlated to demand. In-slab heating shown below was also represented accurately by extracting each pipe manifold from IFC drawings and programmed to reflect setpoint deviation through color.
At present there is still development being done as building components are consistently being upgraded and new tenants introduce TI work. All graphic assets, logic programming and front end visualization created by AC.
Floor plan showing all room temperature control equipment
In-slab hydronic plumbing showing zone subdivision and setpoint deviation
Detail view of VAV boxes showing mouseover behavior and control points list on the right
Field notes during survey of all mechanical equipment present on floor