Modernizing a Heritage Building
Formerly known as the Victoria Memorial Museum Building, the Canadian Museum of Nature is housed by the structure that served as Canada’s first official museum – the birthplace of Canada’s national museums. Originally designed to mirror the Centre Block’s Parliament Buildings design, the museum contains approximately 14.6 million biological specimens dating back to 1856. AM-TECH took great pride in preserving a national treasure and has diligently applied this conviction to numerous heritage projects to this day.
This project involved the stabilization and complete renovation/addition of the heritage building and site. It required the replacement of electrical, fire alarms, emergency systems, low voltage lighting, and generators. AM-TECH ensured that construction was completed and carefully phased to ensure all building operations remained functional in a semi-occupied high security building consisting of labs, public areas, offices and stages.