AME is proud to have contributed to the extensive sustainability measures implemented at UBC's new Aquatic Centre (opened in 2017) that helped earn this exceptional facility its LEED Gold Certification. 

In support of the thousands of people impacted by the devastating wildfires that have ravaged British Columbia this year, AME Group has donated $5,000 to the Canadian Red Cross to help the individuals and families evacuated from their communities.

Learn more about the sophisticated technology and innovative highlights that make UBC's new Aquatic Centre a spectacular, world-class competitive and recreational facility. Designed to meet the needs of students, faculty, and the community, this state-of-the-art 79,000 sq.ft. hybrid aquatic facility includes a 50-m pool, a 25-m pool, a leisure pool with water features, a hot tub, steam room, and sauna.

Passive House (aka Passiv Haus) is a German-based energy performance standard aimed at designing buildings that are extremely thermally energy efficient and therefore require very little heating energy to maintain comfortable conditions. The Passive House concept is the only internationally recognized performance-based standard in construction, with buildings designed such that the vast majority of heating needs are met by the normal heat generated inside a building from people, lighting, and electrical devices, as well as passive solar heating from well-placed windows.

Congratulations to Diamond Schmitt Architects Inc. on winning a SCUP/AIA-CAE Merit Award for Excellence in Architecture for the Okanagan College Trades Renewal and Expansion in Kelowna, BC. Completed in 2016 in collaboration with David Nairne & Associates Ltd., AME is proud to have provided mechanical consulting services on this highly sustainable renovation and addition.

Grand opening of UBC’s new $40 million Aquatic Centre as featured in Canadian Architect. A new aquatic centre has officially opened at the University of British Columbia. Designed by MacLennan Jaunkalns Miller Architects (MJMA) and Acton Ostry Architects—Architects in Association, the new Aquatic Centre replaces the indoor and outdoor pools at the centre of the UBC campus. It features a 10-lane, 50m competition pool; 8-lane, 25m pool with an accessible ramp and diving boards; a lazy river; hot tub; food and beverage kiosks, a sauna and steam room; and more.

LEED Gold for the new commercial building and corporate headquarters of plumbing giant Andrew Sheret at 740 Hillside in Victoria. AME's mechanical design helped achieve the maximum 10 credits for Water Efficiency and 8 credits for Energy Performance.

Guildford Aquatic Centre's LEED Gold targeted 75,000 sq.ft. expansion is featured in Canadian Architect magazine. AME is proud to have worked with Bing Thom Architects on this new bright and contemporary extension to the existing facility.

This modern and iconic dual-pool facility, designed by MacLennan Jaunkalns Miller Architects (MJMA) and Acton Ostry Architects, features a 10-lane 50m competition pool, an 8-lane 25m recreational lap pool, a shallow family pool with a lazy river loop and play features, as well as a hot tub, sauna and many additional amenities. Designed to target LEED Gold, UBC's new Aquatic Centre includes a leading-edge rainwater harvesting system and a 1.3-million-litre underground water cistern enabling rainwater harvested from the roof to be collected, filtered and stored to replenish evaporated pool water.