RCMP’s New Digs To Open Before Year’s End
Monday, October 14, 2013 @ 4:03 AM
New RCMP building at 4th and Victoria to open by Christmas. (Photo 250 News archive)
Prince George, B.C. – It won’t be too long before the new RCMP building at 4th and Victoria is completed and ready for use by the Prince George City force.
Originally scheduled for an end-of-October completion and occupancy, the $40 million building is now to open sometime in December, before the holidays for sure. Rob Whitwam, the City’s Director of Public Safety and Civic Facilities, says some logistical issues are still being resolved as the project nears completion. “It’s the finish work now. Because it’s a LEED building it has to totally be cleaned up and blown out, getting all of the air out. It’s a long list of things that have to be done to meet the LEED requirements.”
Whitwam says things like furniture will be arriving soon, but much more is involved in this move. “It’s probably not like the days when you and I might have moved into an office and they put up a desk and plugged a telephone in for you. There’s all of the cabling that needs to come to each work station for computers and all of that (technical) stuff. It’s kind of new to me but that’s the world we live in these days.”
It is expected that the people who will be working out of the new RCMP building will have a tour of the facility in mid-November, most likely on the same day of the RCMP Regimental Ball which is slated for November 16th. It would make sense to offer a tour of the new building on the same day the RCMP Commissioner is in town to attend the Regimental Ball.
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this is an ugly building and most certainly built in the wrong location ie. this WAS a prime site for downtown revitalization if that was ever to occur— stay tuned for another 20 years.
Is the first person arrested gonna have the honour of cutting the opening ribbon with Chief Green?
“Because itâs a LEED building it has to totally be cleaned up and blown out, getting all of the air out.”
Gee, we did not have LEED in the 70s and 80s and the building was cleaned and any ducts were cleaned, new filters put in, and the HVAC system was operated to “blow the air out”.
Further to that, it could take a year to “balance” the building HVAC system for the specific occupants.
Interestingly, a LEED building is an “environmentally” green building from the point of view of energy, not from the point of view of air quality. Since LEED may restrict the amount of fresh air coming in from those of the pre LEED buildings, the indoor air quality is likely to suffer from the offgasing of various plastics in protective coatings, etc.
from the link below:
“No Level of LEED Certification Assures Health Protection
“It is possible for new construction to be certified at the âplatinumâ level with no credits awarded for air quality assurance in the category âindoor environmental quality.â
http://www.ehhi.org/reports/leed
On a really bad “Prince George Air Quality Alert Day”, methinks I should take a free bus ride to the jail and spend enough time in the lobby and have my lungs “clean and blowed out”. AND go home with “platinum quality” lungs.
This must be the Cadillac of any RCMP buildings anywhere in Canada. When I tell visitors what this is, they are absolutely astounded. It looks like a 5 star Hotel allbeit an ugly one at that. Alls well with the Queens’ soldiers.
Yes, we are the proud citizens to house our finest in the finest in Canada while we continue to drive on some of the worst in Canada.
I have not heard anyone tell us how much the City Police Force can grow before the building needs an addition. 10%? 25%? 40%?
Where is the elbow room, if any, for that now, and how much are we paying for the extra space which may never be needed if the city grows as much as it did in the last 25 years. (remember, it shrunk over that time).
Maybe if the building has an empty room just next to the foyer, that could be a good place for a needle exchange office. A few cameras here and there could simplify some work going on there. Win, win. Coffee shop, cafeteria, or lunch room in the building? Could eliminate Tim’s as a neighbourhood mini-detachment.
Wonder if they will have a Tim’s like the hospital.
Actually I have noticed that some of the RCMP are going upscale and gravitating towards Starbucks.
I mean, with new digs like that they might not want to be seen at Tim’s.
wasn’t wearing my glasses when I first seen the wooden columns. Thought they were giant crucifixes with people strung out at the top of them.
Hartly 2, those people that you saw strung out on the wooden columns were representatives of us poor tax payers. They symbolize us once again getting stuck paying for stupid things like this fancy new palace, oops I mean police station!
Tim Hortons jokes. Grow up folks. Queens cowboys!
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