Learning Centres Province of Nova Scotia

BMR has been the structural consultant for over seventy schools constructed within the Province of Nova Scotia.

When Scotia Learning Centres selected BMR to work on the designs of eleven schools to be built through the public private partnership program, they were faced with an unforgiving 10 month completion schedule for the first five schools. In addition, construction was scheduled to begin in November - not an ideal month to start construction projects in Nova Scotia.

For ten of these schools BMR chose a design employing tilt-up concrete construction - a technique where concrete panels are cast on the ground, then tilted up into place to form the load-bearing walls of the building. Pockets are cast in the panels to support beams and joists used in the framing of the roof and second floor.

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