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Southcore Financial Centre (Bremner Tower and PwC Tower)

Location
Toronto, Ontario

Client
bcIMC (the British Columbia Investment Management Corporation) as represented by GWL Realty Advisors

Architects
KPMB Architects

Completion
2015 (Bremner Tower); 2011 (PwC Tower)

Size
700,000 ft² / 65,032 m² (Bremner Tower); 670,000 ft² / 62,245 m² (PwC Tower)

Project Type
Office, Tower(s)

Sustainability
LEED® gold certified (Bremner Tower and PwC Tower)

Bremner Tower (2015)

KPMB Team
Chris Couse (principal-in-charge), Luigi LaRocca (principal), Glenn MacMullin (associate), Kevin Thomas (associate), Victor Garzon (project architect), Rita Kiriakis (project architect), Erik Jensen, Lynn Pilon, Richard Wong, Jennifer Kudlats, Glenn Ginter, Jose Emila, James Strong, Andrew Hill, Nicholas Caron, Sanaz Shirshekar, Jessica Juvet, Arminé Tadevosyan

Consultants
Halcrow Yolles (structural), The Mitchell Partnership (mechanical), Mulvey + Banani (electrical), Corban Goode (landscape), Raiboy Engineering (civil), Terraprobe (geotechnical), Brian Ballantyne (specifications), BA Group (parking + traffic), Soberman Engineering (vertical transportation), Leber | Rubes (code), Enermodel (LEED), Extreme Measure, Urban Strategies, Altus Group, Aercoustics (acoustics), Cini-Little (waste management), RWDI (wind tunnel), CDML (enhanced conditioning)

PwC Tower (2011)

KPMB Team
Thomas Payne (partner-in-charge), Chris Couse (principal-in-charge), Luigi LaRocca (principal), Glenn MacMullin, Kevin Thomas (associate), Victor Garzon (project architect), Rita Kiriakis, Lynn, Pilon, Jennifer Kudlats, Thom Seto, Glenn Ginter, Jose Emila, Erik Jensen, Richard Wong, Bo Yoon, Takuma Handa, Safdar Abidi, John Allen, Bill Colaco, Ramon Janer, Carolyn Lee, Robin Ramcharan, Garth Zimmer, Razvan Ghilic Micu, Richard Lam

Consultants
Urban Strategies Inc. (planning and development), Halcrow Yolles (structural), The Mitchell Partnership Inc. (mechanical), Mulvey & Banani International Inc (electrical), Soberman Engineering (elevator), Corban and Goode (landscape), Leber/Rubes Inc. (code), Extreme Measures Inc. (area measurements), Lea Consulting Ltd. (civil, traffic, parking), Marshall Macklin Monaghan (surveyor), E.R.A (heritage), Halsall (sustainability), RWDI (wind), Aercoustics Engineering Ltd. (acoustics), Terraprobe Ltd. (geotechnical), Standard Parking of Canada (parking controls), Cini-Little (waste handling), Bhandari Plater / Entro Communications (signage), HydroSense (irrigation design), Turner & Townsend cm2r (cost), Brook Van Dalen & Associates Ltd. (façade consultant)

Project Manager
Pivotal Projects

Construction Manager
EllisDon

Photography
Tom Arban

Awards
2016 LEED CS Gold certified
2015 Ontario Concrete Award
2013 CivicAction Race to Reduce Awards

Publication
Award Magazine, February 2016
Award Magazine, February 2012