Separated by more than 1,800 miles across Canada, Rogers Place, serving as the new home to the NHL Edmonton Oilers, and the new Global Innovation Exchange in Waterloo, Ontario shared similar interior challenges. Each project presented curving, complex walls and ceilings, sometimes in cavernous space or with multi-tiered floors or no floor at all. Each had to be completed on a tight schedule. Two separate interior systems contractors working independently report finding a new more efficient layout system that is significantly faster and more accurate than traditional and conventional layout methods using tapes and manual lasers. The new method was found to be significantly faster and more accurate than traditional and conventional layout methods.
In eastern Canada, the Global Innovation Exchange, in Waterloo, Ontario, is a $75 million, 215,000 square-foot state-of-the-art educational facility on the Wilfrid Laurier University campus that includes a 1,000-seat auditorium, nine lecture halls, computer labs and faculty offices. 65-year-old-family firm, Grassing Drywall and Acoustics Ltd. of Waterloo, won the interior contract for the building. It included two particularly interesting layout challenges: a central atrium with an undulating, multi-tiered serpentine, curved ceiling; and a 300-seat lecture hall with a multi-tiered floor under a multi-tiered 60-foot diameter inverted dome ceiling.