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HSC Brodie Centre

Owner:	University of Manitoba/Health Sciences Centre
Value:	$37,000,000
Size:	28,000 m2
Architect:	Friesen Tokar/GBR/Smith Carter
Project Delivery:	Construction Management
Date Completed:	June 1996

This nine-storey complex, jointly owned by the University of Manitoba and the Health Sciences Centre, is a multipurpose building. The lower four floors house the university's downtown student library and bookstore, as well as recreation facilities including a swimming pool, fitness training area and full-size gymnasium. The top five storeys are designated research facilities of the Health Sciences Centre.

Bridging the new facility to the older Chown and Basic Medical Services buildings to the west is a three-storey, glazed atrium utilizing clear span Vierendeel structural steel trusses. The main building is a reinforced concrete structure designed to accommodate two additional floors for future vertical expansion.

The fifth floor is a transfer floor between the differing column grids from the lower and upper floor levels, which suits the ergonomic layout of the teaching and research levels. In addition to this floor, there are five
post-tensioned transfer beams on the north end of the fourth floor from which the third floor is hung and the upper six storeys bear upon. This creates a column-free space for the two-storey gymnasium directly below.