Place
Port of Montreal, East Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Date
2020–2025 (anticipated)
Area (Marine Operations)
371 m² (3 993 ft²)
Area (Rail Operations)
428 m² (4 607 ft²)
Cost (Marine Operations)
~$2 million
Cost (Rail Operations)
~$3 million
Client
CBCL Limited for FSM Management Group Inc.

Prime Consultant
CBCL Limited
Civil Engineer
CBCL Limited
Structural Engineer
CBCL Limited
Mechanical Engineer
CBCL Limited
Electrical Engineer
CBCL Limited

Overview

Jet fuel is delivered by ship and pumped into storage tanks at a new marine terminal. It is then pumped under Rue Notre-Dame Est to a new rail and truck terminal from whence it is shipped to Montréal–Trudeau International Airport by rail or to other airports by rail or truck. Fuel loading and unloading is supervised from two operations buildings.

Concept

The design is based on these key principles:

• Glare-free daylight in all occupied spaces

• Clear circulation with straight corridors

• Views from the operations desk to exterior loading areas

• An envelope that is airtight and free of thermal bridging

• Durability

Design

Rail Operations Building

The Rail Operations Building is the larger of the two operations buildings. Fuel operations are accommodated in a control room, at a fuel ticket counter, and in a fuel testing lab.

The electrical room houses switches and controls for the entire rail site, as well as the building itself.

Administrative offices, and a meeting room are located along the Notre-Dame elevation.

Two locker rooms are provided, serving both the rail and marine terminals: one for soiled personal protective equipment and another for personal clothing and items. The personal locker room includes showers.

Rooms such as the sampling lab, driver washroom, ticket counter, locker room, garage, and tool crib, are accessible directly from the exterior so that personnel whose clothing may be contaminated with fuel or whose boots might otherwise track dirt, water, and snow into the building, can access them with a minimum of impact on the cleanliness and air quality of the building as a whole. This also limits infiltration of exterior which would otherwise result in increased heating and cooling energy use.

Roof overhangs shelter all regularly used doors from precipitation and also protect windows from glare. Prevention of glare is particularly important in the control room where large windows are intended to provide a good view of fueling operations. The overhangs ensure that occupants may observe operations outside and read their controls and displays without strain or discomfort.

Marine Operations Building

The Marine Operations Building is a smaller, simpler version of its rail counterpart.

Fuel operations are supervised from a control room almost as large as that in the Rail Operations Building and likewise provided with large windows.

The electrical room occupies more than a third of the floor area. The space accommodates switches and controls for the entire marine site. An IT room houses additional, computerized, controls.

The garage-workshop, sampling lab, and driver washroom are accessible directly from the exterior.

Construction

Substructure

Reinforced concrete foundation

Superstructure

Loadbearing concrete masonry, supporting an open web steel joist roof with corrugated steel deck.

Façade and glazing

The facade is clad in insulated metal panels. These are installed as part of a rainscreen cavity wall system with loadbearing concrete masonry as the backup wall. Windows are triple-glazed units in thermally-broken aluminum curtain wall framing. Fibre-reinforced plastic doors are provided to resist corrosion.

Effective U-value: 0.142 W/m²·K (R40)

Roof

Two-ply modified bitumen membrane system over polyisocyanurate insulation.

Effective U-value: 0.116 W/m²·K (R49)