At 52 stories, 3 Civic Plaza is the third tallest building in British Columbia. It houses the Civic Hotel, an urban campus for Kwantlen Polytechnic University (KPU), meeting rooms, a fitness center, a rooftop garden and 348 residential condominium units.
The design team, consisting of ZGF Cotter Architects, Fast + Epp structural engineers, and ITC Construction Group, paid close attention to energy-saving measures at the building envelope to minimize costs and carbon footprint, and improve occupant comfort. Copious amounts of insulation were applied on the walls, roof and other areas. Mineral wool was placed in the window wall assemblies. Foamed plastic insulation was sprayed on the cast-in-place concrete exterior walls. Foamed plastic insulation board was applied at the roofs, and cellulose insulation was spray-applied at the slab soffits under occupied space in the underground parking.