Eric Hamber Secondary School, Vancouver, BC
I was recently reading a case study from Technical Glass Products about a new secondary school project in Vancouver, British Columbia, and it got me thinking about the buildings where I attended junior high and high school in Bennington, Vermont. The junior high was built in 1913, and it had separate entrance doors marked “boys” and “girls”…by the time I attended, we could use either entrance regardless of gender. The high school was built in 1967, and had the large expanses of concrete, brick, and glass that characterized many designs of that time.
The secondary school that is the topic of the TGP case study bears no resemblance to the schools I attended, nor to the schools that my kids attended, for that matter. The new Eric Hamber Secondary School replaced the existing 1960’s building with a light-filled and visually-connected design that showcases a modern approach to fire and life safety and has been hailed as the largest seismic project in the history of the Vancouver School Board. Several stairwells have Fireframes® Designer Series doors with Fireframes® Aluminum Series transoms and sidelites, to help safeguard egress routes while maintaining the open design.
Check out the case study here to learn more about this project.
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Interesting
Good to see fire rated glazing
I guess there is a reason for no entry, off the stairwell?
My elementary school (Philadelphia) was built in 1922 and also had “BOYS” and “GIRLS” in concrete above the stairwell entrances from the yard. Obviously, by the time I was there in 1985, they had become a conversation piece.