Completed in 2019, the North Surrey Sport & Ice Complex greets the community with its gently curving wood roof that mimics the mountains surrounding the Fraser Valley. This facility features three ice rinks with accessibility features, skating equipment rentals & maintenance, fitness rooms, community meeting spaces, multi-purpose rooms, food accommodations, and outdoor activity areas. Along with a hybrid timber-steel truss system, a wood roof deck was chosen over a more common metal roof deck, resulting in a warm, elegant structure that also saved construction time and money.
The 43-meter-long roof span required a light and strong truss to support the wood roof panels, so StructureCraft used parametric software to optimize the size of the glulam members. The result was a lightweight hybrid wood-steel truss that required less material and labour. During construction, the prefabricated trusses (in 21.5-meter halves) and roof panels (which ranged from 3-4 meters wide and 11-16 meters long) were sequenced for efficient transportation and installation. These combined optimizations during the design, fabrication, and installation phases resulted in cost savings of 30-40% along with significant time savings.
The North Surrey Sport & Ice Complex serves as an important community fixture and a milestone in Surrey’s sport and recreation program delivery. It also displays the multitude of strengths mass timber can provide to the development of community infrastructure.
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